Chapter 9 Racial and Ethnic Inequality TEST

A group of human beings distinguished by skin color, physical traits and genetically inherited characteristics.

• genocide

• Eurocentrism

• race

• prejudice

Irish Americans, African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans are example of the following term

• segregation

• pluralism

• racism

• ethnicity

discrimination that is built into the operation of social institutions, including the economy, schools, and the legal system

• minority

• institutional discrimination

• multiculturalism

• pluralism

the dominance of European (especially English) cultural patterns

• eurocentrism

• multiculturalism

• pluralism

• affirmative action

Southern laws requiring black children to go to separate schools than white children and use separate water fountains is an example of

• assimilation

• eurocentrism

• segregation

• Affirmative action

All Mexican people like tacos, all Black people eat chicken, an all Irish Americans are alcoholics are examples of

• stereotypes

• ethnicity

• multiculturalism

• assimilation

this term represents the United States being made up of a variety of ethnic groups, like Asian Americans, African Americans, and Latin Americans

• racism

• affirmative action

• eurocentrism

• multiculturalism

Scholars who see the US as a "salad bowl" emphasize....

• the rapid growth of the US population

• the great amount of racial and ethnic assimilation in the US

• the many differences between racial and ethnic groups in the US

In American society, there are some members of ethnic groups -- such as Jews and Hispanics -- who are bicultural; they feel that ...

• they are fully assimilated into American society

• they belong to American society, but at the same time they also have another separate identity

• they do not belong at all to American society

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.