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Define ethnicity.

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Shared cultural heritage.

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Define race?

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Socially constructed biological traits.

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Define minorities?

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Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural differences.

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Define prejudice?

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A rigid and unfair generation about an entire.

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Define stereotypes?

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Simplified description applied to every person in some categories.

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Define racism?

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The belief that one racial category is superior or inferior.

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Define scapegoat.

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A person with little power somebody unfairly blame.

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What is the scape goat theory.

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Holds other prejudice spring from frustration.

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What authoritarian personality theory?

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Only see things in black and white.

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What is culture theory?

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Prejudice is embedded in our culture.

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What is conflict theory?

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Use to suppress others.

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Define discrimination?

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Unequal treatment.

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What is institutional prejudice and discrimination?

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Bias build into the institution of society.

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Prejudice and discrimination do what?

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Reinforce each other.

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Define pluralism?

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All races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standings.

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Define assimilation?

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Minorities gradually adapt patterns of dominant culture.

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Define segregation?

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Separation of people.

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Define genocide?

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Killing of an entire race.

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Define miscegenation?

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Biological reproduction of people.

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When did native Americans become citizen.

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  1. There were here first. They were below minimal.
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What are the white Anglo Saxon Protestants

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Scottish and English and welsh

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What is the 13 amendment?

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Slavery

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What is the 14 amendment?

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Citizenship.

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What is the 15 amendment?

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Right to vote

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What are Asian Americans?

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Chinese, Japanese, Korean,

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What races are Hispanic American?

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Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban

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What races are Arab Americans?

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They come from 22 countries. They include Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,

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What percentage of the us make up Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Arab Americans. Native American

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Hispanic is 16.4
African American is 13
Asian is 4.9
Arab is 0.5
Native American is .8
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What is the characteristics of the racial type caucasoid

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People with relatively light skin and fine hair.

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What is the characteristics of the racial type negroid

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People with darker skin and coarse hair.

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What is the characteristics of the racial type mongoloid?

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People with yellow or brown skin and distinctive folds on the eyelids.

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What are the two important characteristics of minorities?

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Distinctive identity and subordination.

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What is distinctive identity?

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Which may be based on physical or cultural traits.

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What is social distance?

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How closer people are willing to interact with members of some category.

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Who evented the social distance scale.

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Emory Bogardus.

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What did Thomas Sowell do?

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Explains that most of this difference results not from biology but from environment. He said the iq test was culturally bias.

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Define assimilation

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The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.

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Women couldn’t vote until

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1920

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