Race and Ethnicity

Race and Ethnicity in Culture

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Open Ended

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Open Ended

What is an example of "otherness" that you can think of?

Poll

The United States is an example of a homogenous or heterogeneous society?

• Homogenous

• Heterogenrous

Open Ended

Give an example of how people segregate others? (this could be in the United States or other parts of the world)

Open Ended

What is another example of an ethnic conflict?

Culture-N- Diversity Review

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Culture

• Culture

  –Values, beliefs, attitudes, language, symbols, rituals, behaviors, and customs unique to a particular group of people

  –Passed from one generation to next

  –Often defined set of rules

  Foundation of behavior, but variance

What is culture... how do i get it???

• •Culture is

  –Learned

  –Shared

  –Social in nature

  –Dynamic and constantly changing

Open Ended

What is the difference between race & ethnicity?

What AM I? What are you?

• Race is based off the color of one's skin and other physical features

• Ethnicity is based off where you are from.... not Savannah, Ga or Houston Texas but more like (I look black/ African American) my people are from Trinidad. Or I may look caucasian but my people are from Bosnia.

Multiple Choice

What is acculturation?

• Values, beliefs,. attitudes and language of a group of people

• Care provides for the well being of the whole person not just physical needs

• Process of learning the beliefs & behaviors of the dominant culture

• The absorption of many cultures in the dominant culture

Multiple Select

What is your family type?

• patriarchal

• extended

• nuclear

• matriarchal

Health care workers work with and care for many different people...

*Listen to patients express their beliefs

*Be aware of factors that make each person unique

*Be sensitive to how patients respond to eye contact, touch, & invasion of personal space

*Respect Individuality

Human Geography AP

Unit 3 Chapter 7

Ethnicity Review

Topics to Know

• Race vs. Ethnicity

• Ethnic Distribution

• Types of Migration

• Nationalities

• Racial Segregation

• Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

• Balkanization

Race vs. Ethnicity

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Multiple Choice

A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and other cultural traits.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

• Ghetto

Multiple Choice

A form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one racial group over other groups.

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Ethnicity

Multiple Choice

A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance. It is created by people in society.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

• Prejudice

Multiple Choice

Race is based on _____________ characteristics, while Ethnicity is based on ____________ characteristics

• cultural, physical

• physical, cultural

• achieved, ascribed

• citizenship, cultural

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of race?

• Racial categories are biologically determined.

• Some races have natural advantages over others.

• Racial differences play a significant role in genetics.

• There is no scientific or genetic evidence for distinct human races.

Multiple Choice

The concept of "Race" is a social construct.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The idea that one's own culture is better than other cultures is _______________.

• ethnocentrism

• discrimination

• prejudice

• racism

Ethnic Distribution

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Multiple Choice

Which is not one of the most numerous U.S. ethnicities?

• European American

• Asian American

• African American

• Hispanic American

Multiple Choice

Asian Americans are predominantly found in what region of the United States?

• East

• West

• South

• North

Multiple Choice

Hispanics Tend To Cluster In The

• Great Plains

• Southwest

• Southeast

• Alaska

Multiple Choice

African Americans Tend To Cluster In The

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Alaska

• Hawaii

Multiple Choice

This process, done every 10 years, re-assesses the demographic make-up of the United States.

• Immigration

• Poll

• Census

• Data Report

Types of Migration

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Multiple Choice

A cluster in one neighborhood is called...

• a ghetto

• a city

• an agglomeration

• a town

Multiple Choice

Most people immigrate to the United States because of...

• Religious freedom

• Job

• Family

• Land

Multiple Choice

Many African Americans after the Civil War stayed in the South and became ___.

• Members of the Baptist Church

• Authors of Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecroppers

• Indentured Servants

Multiple Select

What are the 3 major migration flows that have shaped the African-American distribution within the US?

• Slave Trade during 18th Century to American Colonies

• Great Migration; from US South to northern cities

• Immigration back to Africa

• immigration from city ghettos to other urban neighborhoods in the late 20th century

Multiple Choice

The international migration of Africans to the New World was referred to as the ____.

• Exodus

• Slave Trade

• Triangular Slave Trade

• Mass Migration

Multiple Choice

Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Armenia are all examples of

• Ethnic Enclaves

• Ethnic Systems

• Ethnic Cities

• Ethnic Minorities

Race and Ethnicity

by Kristie Whitlock

Open Ended

Why does it make senese that Asian America's would be clustered on the West Coast and Hispanic American in the Southwest

Multiple Select

Clustering happens _______________ (check all that apply)

• accidently

• in states

• regionally

• in neighborhoods

Multiple Choice

A cluster of an ethnic group surrounded by other groups is __________

• an enclave

• a ghetto

• a cultural pocket

Open Ended

What is the primary difference between the social labels of "African- American" and "Black"?

Multiple Choice

The term __________ focuses on biological features like skin tone or physical features.

• Ethnicity

• Race

• Nationality