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Race

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Category ofPeople who share biological traits that members of society think are important

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When was the concept of race invented

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Centuries ago as global trade brought the worlds people into contact with other people of diversity

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Caucasoid

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European scientist name for people People of European and west Asia
Designate people of light skin fine hair

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Negroid

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European scientists category for dark skin course hair

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Mongoloid

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European scientist name for people with yellow or brown skin folds in eyelids

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Red-savages

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Colonists name for native americans

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Ethnicity

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Shared cultural heritage which involves common ancestors language and religion

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Difference between race and ethnic city

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Race is about biological traits Ethnicity is a matter of culture They’re different but can go together ex: Korean Americans

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Minority

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People identified by physical cultural traits that a society subject to disadvantage

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Distinctive identity

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Physical traits which are difficult to change

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Characteristics of minorities

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Visability
Social disadvantage
Becoming majority of the population

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White privilege

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White people relative to those in my Nordie categories enjoy social advantages

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The great immigration

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From 1865 to 1914 try to 25,000,000 Immigrants to factory jobs created by the industrial revolution

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Immigration act of 1924

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Immigration and created a quota system that limited the number of immigrants entering the US

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Genocide

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The systematic killing of one category of people by another

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Segregation

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Physical and social separation of categories of people

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Hyper segregation

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Extreme racial segregation that consists of geographical grouping of a racial group for example African-Americans have a little contact with people outside of their community

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Rosa Parks

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Sparked a social movement to insigrogation on buses and publicly Transportation throughout the south

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Assimilation

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The process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns from the dominant majority population

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Pluralism

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People of all racial and ethnic categories have about the same overall social standing
Ex: The US is pluralistic to the extent that officially at least all people have equal standing under the law

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Trail of tears

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Thousands of death among the Cherokee Indian nations from being forcibly removed

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Emancipation proclamation

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Declared the abolition of slavery

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Jim Crow laws

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Barred Black people from voting and sitting on juries and cold for segregated trains restaurant hotels in public places

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Prohibiting segregation appointment in public accommodations

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The voting Rights act of 1965

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Banning voting requirements that prevented African-Americans from having a political voice

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Civil rights act of 1968

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Outlawed discrimination in housing

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Asian Americans are the fastest increasing racial or a category in the US population

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Immigration from China and Japan to North America began in 1849 win the gold rush in California created the demand for labor’s

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Chinese exclusion act

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When did the flow of new immigrants from China This law caused the Asian population in the US to decline

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Arab

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Refers To an ethnic category

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Muslim

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Refers to a follower of Islam

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Prejudice

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A rigid and unfounded generalization about an entire category of people Prejudgment an attitude judging someone before you meet them

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Stereotype

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An exaggerated description applied to every person in some category describe a category people in a negative trend

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What is the difference between prejudice and stereotypes

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Prejudice preconceived opinion not based on reason

Stereotype fixed image belief widely held

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Racism

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People of the some Racial category or less were then or even biologically inferior to others
I’m better than you

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Emory Bogardus

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Developed the social distance scale to measure prejudice most students at US universities in schools

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Vincent Parrillo
Christopher donoghue
Repeated bogardus study and found 3 things

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Long-term trend students are more excepting of all minorities
Today’s students the less difference between the various minorities
Climate of concern over terrorism in the US probably has increased prejudice against Arabs and Muslims

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Prejudice can be described as

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Structural that is built into operation of society itself

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Stokely Carmichael

Charles Hamilton

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Described institutional raxism

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Institutional racism

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Racism at work in the operation of social institutions including economy schools hospitals the military in criminal justice system
Whenever race go to the operation of any social institution to the disadvantage of the minority

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Racial profiling

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Judges prosecutor police or others and cower consider race or ethnicity to be a sign of probable guilt is also institutional racism

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What causes people to become prejudice

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Personality of individuals and structure of society itself

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T.w Adorno and colleagues

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Claimed that prejudice a strong and people with an authoritarian personality

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Scapegoat theory

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People director hostility at safe less powerful target such as undocumented immigrants for minorities or government blaming someone for troubles that are not their fault

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Cultural theory

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Prejudices built into our culture

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Multiculturalism

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Educational programs designed to recognize cultural diversity in the US and come out respect for all cultural traditions

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Anglicization

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Trying to become more like privileged white Anglo-Saxon protestants

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Eurocentrisim

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Practice of using European English cultural standards to judge everyone

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E pluribus unum

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Latin phrase on us currency means

Out of many,one

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Discrimination

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Unequal treatment of various categories of people

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What is the difference between discrimination and prejudice

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Prejudice as a matter of attitudes discrimination is a matter of actions

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Institutional discrimination

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Discrimination that is built into operation of social institutions including economy schools and legal system ex: Trading black and white children differently by placing them in separate schools

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Black Lives Matter

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A police violence directed against people of color and national issue

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Prejudice and discrimination rainforece each other forming structure of social inequality

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How can prejudice lead to discrimination

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If why police officers think that most African-Americans are criminals they may engage in racial profiling stopping white motorist and arresting them that’s over criminalizes African-Americans

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Microaggression

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Is subtle may appear to be minor but its affects on Are big
Everyday smal intentionall acts of aggression that communicate bias

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Chester M Pierce

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Used the concept of micro aggression

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Affirmative action

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Policies intended to improve the social standing of minority subject to pass prejudice and discrimination
Hiring qualified minority applicants more of them

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Quota system

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Employers are colleges set aside a certain number of places for minorities

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University of California medical collegeregents versus bakke

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Bakke Was denied a place at the California University medical school because of spots has being set aside for minorities

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Fatalism Oscar Lewis

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Leads people to accept the situation and to make assumptions that life is not likely to get better

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Joan albon

Oppositional culture

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Discourages members from excelling by defining school achievement as acting white

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Charles murray

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Document is widespread pessimism about the future as well and come right at the communities

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Double consciousness

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A sense of always looking At oneself through the eyes of others measuring one solve by the tape of the world

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W.E.B du bois

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Up with souls of the black folk even though slaveries gone most people of color were still living as second class citizens

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Symbolic interaction theory

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Investigates how are used color in the process of finding ourselves and evaluating other people recent Nisidia keep building blocks of reality

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Social conflict Theory

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Claims that unequal standing of minorities reflects the organization of society itself

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Fried rich engles

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Colleague of marx Both pointed out the main reason US workers had not come together to form socialist movement was racial and ethnic diversity of the US

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Criticisms of social conflict theory

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painting minorities as victims runs the risk of taking away peoples responsibility for their own lives ignores the significance strides this nation has made over many decades and dealing with the

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Structural functional theory racial and ethnic inequality

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Highlights the importance of culture to social standing different culture orientations that attract patterns of education

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Culture of poverty

Structural functional

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Thesis developed by Oscar Lewis explains why some low income people have a fatalistic Viewhave their situation

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Structural functional a racial ethnic differences helpful or harmful to society

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Ethnic differences are cultural and a source of identity and pride for most people contrary traditional or fatalistic cultural orientations can be a barrier to treatment for some people

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Symbolic interaction theory racial and ethnic inequality

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Focuses on how people experience society in their every day lives how it affects the way we evaluate ourselves and others

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W.e.b du bois

Symbolic interactionist

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Claimed that most people consider race a basic element is social identity is a disadvantage of people of color

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Symbolic interaction or racial and ethnic differences helpful or harmful to society

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She extend that race worthness becomes a mass for status that values people these social structures take away from our common humanity

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Social construct Theory racial and ethnic inequalities

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Racing with missing to class all art and elements of social stratification

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Marx and engles

Social conflict theorists

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Claim that race and ethnic city divided the working class

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Multicultural theory

Part of social conflict theory

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Claims that our culture has a European bias that pushes minorities away

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Social conflict theory or ethnic differences helpful or harmful to society

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Elements of social stratification raisin in the sun service interest of the leads are harmful to the operation of suicide

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Social stratification

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Society categorizing of its people and groups based on factors such as well income education social factors

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The trump effect

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A rising pattern of hate that some describe

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What grew the African-American middle class

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Affirmative action

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Radical left view on racial and ethnic inequality Problem

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Striking in a quality and racism car built into the very institution of US society

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Radical left racial and ethnic inequality solution

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There must be a fundamental change in economic political and social institution to illuminate racial hierarchy

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Liberal view racial ethnic inequality problem

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Social and economic inequality places minorities at the margins of US society

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Liberal view ethnic and racial inequality solution

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Government programs must attack prejudice and discrimination and provide assistance

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Far right Racial ethnic and a quality problem

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Far right embraces white supremacy defining minorities as a social problems

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Conservative views racial and ethnic inquality Problem

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Support equality before the law to believe that all people make choices and must take responsibility for their own social service

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Conservative views racial and ethnic inequality solution

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All people need to treat others as individuals some minorities must overcome cultural disadvantages their individual effort to realize how achievement

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