Race and Ethnicity Terminology

Which of the following is true of race?

• Racial categories are biologically determined.

• Some races have natural advantages over others.

• Racial differences play a significant role in genetics.

• There is no scientific or genetic evidence for distinct human races.

A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance. It is created by people in society.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and other cultural traits.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

A 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 

Which of the following is the most accurate definition of a stereotype?

• Providing a characterization of an entire group of people based on false or generalized information.

• 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 stereotype

• reversed discrimination

• discrimination

• active racism

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

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype

The action of treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, or culture is:

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype