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Country Comparison: Japan & Canada

Canada

-The charter guarantees rights for all citizens including people with disabilities. It also protects their rights in an effort to promote both equality and equity -Unconstitutional to be discriminatory towards people with colorblindness, or any disability in all

Actions Taken

-Most Canadian cities have changed street/road sign, in an effort to accommodate people who have some form of colorblindness

-Canada has generally high levels of economic inequality -GDP per capita 45,032.12 USD - A majority of the Canadian society are accepting -affordable healthcare (universal) -Is a very modern country. Advanced technologically, and socially

-An estimated 2.6 million Canadians are colour blind, most of them men -Canada has generally high levels of economic inequality -GDP per capita 45,032.12 USD - Canada has a history of discrimination against people with disabilities. However, this changed when the charter was introduced in 1982

Japan

Regulations

-In Japan, if you are colorblind, you can not become a pilot -Some managers have the power to fire people that are colorblind, if they see fit

Actions taken

-Japan recently took out annual eye exams from their school curriculum -Teachers now have more of a neutral learning environment (ie. no more, the grass is green, the sky is blue statements) -Traffic lights are becoming more sensitive to people with vision impairment

Relative Living Conditions

- Japan is a modern technologically advanced first world developed country, with modern infrastructure, telecommunications and transportation systems and modern medical facilities. -GDP per capita: $49,900 (USD) -separation/polarization of people with disabilities from the rest of the country -health care is expensive

Causes/Background

-Color vision deficiency affects more than 3 million people - about 1 in 20 men and 1 in 500 women in Japan - In the 20th century, discrimination against people with vision deficiency was so prominent that marriages were annulled, job applications were rejected and people were turned away from almost every college science course in the country -As women are carriers for colorblindness there is more sexism present in the country -The stigma attached to people with colorblindness in countries like Japan is such that people spend hours learning how to cheat the tests, so as not to be diagnosed -