Ethnicity Quiz (Fall 2022)

Ethnicity is a classification of people based on:

• Skin color

• national origin and/or culture

• patterns of behavior

• biological characteristics

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

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

A group of people with physical or cultural traits different from those of the dominant group in a society is that cause unfair treatment

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Minority

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

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype

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

• a stereotype
• reversed discrimination
• discrimination
• active racism

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

• racism
• Prejudice
• Discrimination

Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group.

• racism
• Prejudice
• Discrimination

White man walks across the street to avoid a black man.

• discrimination

• prejudice

Teacher has low expectations for his students who are apart of minority groups.

• discrimination

• prejudice

Administrator gives a different penalties to minority groups.

• discrimination

• prejudice