discrimination chain? is it a genuine expression for native speakers? "The non-Portuguese look down on the Portuguese, the Portuguese look down on the Macau residents, the Macau residents look down on the Mainland Chinese, and the Mainland Free Scheme Chinese look down on the package tours." " Not only Macau has its own discrimination chain, but it also has a blaming chain." The two sentence above were from a Macau newspaper, the piece was written by a Chinese writer. In China, we have an interesting social phenomenon named "鄙视链", as described by the Chinese writer. 鄙视链 literally means discrimination chain in English. But I doubt whether native speakers can understand or if it is used at all. If the answer is no, could you please tell me how to describe the situation in English? Thank you very much.