Race and Ethnicity (Unit 7)

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

The social construct that separates people into groups based on their appearance and heritage

Question 2

Racism

Answer 2

Hate towards someone because of their race

Question 3

Ethnicity

Answer 3

A people group that someone belongs to because of their cultural heritage

Question 4

Legal Discrimination

Answer 4

Bias in the legal system based on gender, race, sexual identity, etc

Question 5

Segregation

Answer 5

A physical separation based on race and systems that support racist ideals

Question 6

Assimilation

Answer 6

When two cultures merge together to create one umbrella culture, or one culture merging into another typically out of survival

Question 7

Minority Group

Answer 7

A people group that doesn’t make up the most of a population or doesn’t have the same access to power as the majority people group

Question 8

Stereotype

Answer 8

A broad generalization of a specific people group

Question 9

Prejudice

Answer 9

Hate directed at an individual based on their race, gender, sexuality, etc

Question 10

Genocide

Answer 10

The extermination of a people group out of hate towards them for being apart of a religion, race, ethnicity, etc

Question 11

Cultural Pluralism

Answer 11

An instance when a minority group is distinctly a part of their minority group all while participating in a larger society (Ex: Chinese Americans belong to the minority of Chinese people in America, and do take part in the American society)

Question 12

Scapegoating

Answer 12

Blaming a culture’s problems on a people group without sound reason or validity (ex: Hitler blaming all Jews for the failing state of Germany’s economy)

Question 13

Affirmative Action

Answer 13

Processes and way that people represent women and minorities in the workforce (and other places where they are discriminated against)