Children are notprejudiced against classmates with disabilities when they begin school - suggesting that negative attitudes are learned rather than instinctive, say researchers.
Their success proves, if nothing else, that Russian consumers are as shrewd and sceptical as any other country's consumers: they are not arbitrarily prejudiced against Russian manufactured goods, but they demand international standards of performance and reliability from the products they buy.
Many employers remain prejudiced against older workers, and not always without reason: performance in manual jobs does drop off in middle age, and older people are often slower on the uptake and less comfortable with new technology.