tokenism

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[ˈtəʊkənɪz(ə)m], (Noun)

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- the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from under-represented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce
(e.g: the use of gay supporting characters is mere tokenism)


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definition by Oxford Dictionaries