Memoir Unit Terms

unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group

• apathy

• stereotype

• injustice

• prejudice

a socially constructed category of identification based on physical characteristics, ancestry, historical affiliation, or shared culture

• ethnicity

• race

• stereotype

• prejudice

a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like

• revolution

• genocide

• ethnicity

• race

discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews

• racism

• anti-Semitism

• stereotype

• injustice

a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group

• stereotype

• prejudice

• discrimination

• racism

the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the emotions, thoughts, or attitudes of another

• apathy

• empathy

• indifference

• injustice

violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment

• racism

• genocide

• prejudice

• injustice

lack of interest or concern

• prejudice

• empathy

• indifference

• injustice

a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others

• terrorism

• racism

• genocide

• revolution

the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group

• genocide

• indifference

• injustice

• discrimination