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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a stereotype?
An overly simple, unfair and untrue belief about a group of people
Gender expression refers to how a person shows their gender to the world.
An attitude or belief in a stereotype that affects our understanding, actions, and decisions towards others.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is bias?
An attitude or belief in a stereotype that affects our understanding, actions, and decisions towards others.
An overly simple, unfair and untrue belief about a group of people
Understanding that identities can overlap and affect each other.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceJews in the United States are members ofan ethnic majority.a racial minority.an ethnic minority.the racial majority
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is forced relocation of a minority group?
Population transfer
assimilation
de facto segregation
subjugation
- 5. Multiple ChoicePeople who are racistare always members of the majority.believe their race is superior.believe that the dominant race is superior.know that their beliefs are wrong, but are unwilling to change.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a minority group?
They have distinctive physical or cultural traits
Members of the group share a common sense of identity
The minority is controlled by the majority
Minorities get suppressed by the majority because certain minority traits are believed to be superior
- 7. Multiple Choice
The blending or fusing of the minority groups into the dominant society is known as...
Assimilation
Cultural Transfusion
Cultural Pluralism
None of the Above
- 8. Multiple Choice
This type of segregation takes places because of laws
De Jure Segregation
De Facto Segregation
- 9. Multiple Choice
Widely held preconceptions of a group (minority or majority) and its individual members
Discrimination
Prejudice
Genocide
Hate Crimes
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is part of the definition of an ethnic minority?skin colorbirthplaceschooliniglanguage
- 11. Multiple ChoiceHistorically, many African Americans in southern states were denied the right to vote by government offi cials who treated them diff erently from whites; for example, by requiring them to pass complex exams to be able to vote. This is an example ofinstitutionalized discrimination.genocideethnocentrisma self-fulfilling prophecy
- 12. Multiple Choice
Asian Americans deal with being the "model minority" or also called...
Being perfect in everything
Being perfect in just school
Being perfect in language translation
Being perfect for nothing
- 13. Multiple Choice
In 1994, people of the Hutu ethnicity in Rwanda killed thousands of ethnic Tutsi Rwandans in an attempt to make Rwanda 100% Hutu. This is an example of...
genocide.
population transfer.
de facto subjugation.
Anglo-conformity.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following are examples of discrimination?
Avoiding social contact with members of minority groups
Denying a person a position of authority based on their social status
Blocking a person's access to a more exclusive neighborhood
All of the Above
- 15. Multiple ChoiceA group of people identified by cultural, religious, or national characteristics is:RaceEthnicityGenderMinority
- 16. Multiple Choice
The dominant group will displace its unfocused aggression onto a subordinate group. Which theory suggests this?
Racial formation theory
Scapegoat theory
Colourism
Post racial dream theory
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is the most accurate definition of a stereotype?Providing a characterization of an entire group of people based on the actions of somePeople sticking together, creating an "us versus them" attitudeThe discrimination of an entire group of people through policies of segregationBelieving that your racial or ethnic background is better than everyone else's
- 18. Multiple Choice
The action of treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, or culture is:
prejudice
racism
discrimination
stereotype
- 19. Multiple ChoiceRace is based on _____________ characteristics, while Ethnicity is based on ____________ characteristicscultural, physicalphysical, culturalachieved, ascribedcitizenship, cultural
- 20. Multiple Choice_____ refers to the preferential treatment of minorities and women in employment and education.Ethnic nepotismAffirmative actionEconomic discriminationDesegregation
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