Race and Ethnicity

Which of the following is true of race?

• Racial categories are biologically determined.
• Some races have innate advantages over others.
• Racial differences play a significant role in genetics.
• There is no scientific evidence for distinct human races.

A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance. It is made up by society.

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Minorities

A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and sometimes race.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

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

• racism
• Prejudice
• Discrimination

Race does not exist biologically and was created by man as a way to classify people based on noticeable physical characteristics. 

• True 
• False 

The Holocaust was an example of a ___.

• Apartheid
• Balkanization
• Centripetal Force
• Genocide

Which 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 some
• People sticking together, creating an "us versus them" attitude
• The discrimination of an entire group of people through policies of segregation
• Believing that your racial or ethnic background is better than everyone else's

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

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

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype