Racism and Prejudice

Salad Bowl theory is to accommodation of minority cultures as the Melting Pot theory is to 

• amalgamation all minority cultures

• assimilation of minority cultures
• accepting all other cultures for what they are
• murdering minority cultures

Discrimination is a(an) _____________ while prejudice is a(an) ____________.

• attitude, action
• action, attitude
• feeling, behavior
• behavior, action

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

• cultural, physical
• physical, cultural
• achieved, ascribed
• citizenship, cultural

Saying that all African Americans are good at sports is an example of a....

• a stereotype
• reversed discrimination
• discrimination
• active racism

A group of people identified by cultural, religious, or national characteristics is:

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Minority

Assimilation is:

• the blending fruits, milk, and ice cream into a cold treat of deliciousness 
• the fusing of the remnants of the Democratic Party into the now-dominant Republican Party
• minority group members acting like the dominant group

• the systematic effort to destroy an entire population

Widely held negative attitudes towards a group and its individual members is:

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype

A distorted, exaggerated, or oversimplified image applied to a category of people is:

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype

A group of people sharing certain inherited physical characteristics that are considered important within a society is:

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Minority

This is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Defines?

• Prejudice
• Discrimination
• Stereotype