i know they are discriminatory*. luckily my bank loves me, but if they ever closed my account due to bitcoin id love to take them to court. After all, there is no law to say that we bitcoiners are not our own 'ethnic group'**. as we are a community of people with our own currency.
luckily i think i have a while to look at the legality of doing such, as im not 100% sure on defining bitcoin as a ethnic group. but it seems plausible, thus far. as i say there are no laws to say we are not a ethnic group as its the people that decide as such (human rights law). but putting law aside and thinking about legal statutes instead. i will have to see how they 'legally' but not 'lawfully' define ethnicity in the case of bank policy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscriminationDiscrimination is action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice. This includes treatment of an individual or group based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or social category,
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group
An ethnicity, or ethnic group, is a socially-defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural, or national experience.[1][2] Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, myth of origins, history, homeland, language (dialect), or even ideology, and manifests itself through symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, physical appearance, etc.
social group: check
culture: check
symbolic systems: check
ideologies: check
