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WorksheetsRace, Ethnicity, and the Social Structure
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
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
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
Saying that all African Americans are good at sports is an example of ....
a stereotype
reversed discrimination
discrimination
active racism
The process by which a minority group takes on the characteristics of the dominant group and is eventually accepted as part of that group is known as ________. (e.g. adopting the clothing, language, music, food, etc of dominant group)
amalgamation
pluralism
genocide
assimilation
_________________ is an attitude while _________________ involves action.
discrimination, prejudice
prejudice, ethnocentrism
assimilation, acculturation
prejudice, discrimination
The idea that one's own culture is better than other cultures is _______________.
ethnocentrism
discrimination
prejudice
scapegoating
A _________________________ is a generalization about a group of people.
rude comment
stereotype
ethnic group
prejudice
Geographers are interested in where ethnic groups live and how their cultures change. Most Hispanic Americans live
in the northwestern United States and in large cities
in the southwestern United States and in large cities
in the sourtheastern United States and in large cities
in the northeastern United States and in large cities
Balkanization
Occurs when a country breaks up along ethnic lines
Happened in the former republic of Yugoslavia
Has not happened since World War II
Has traditionally been found in Africa
Kosovo
Was the location where ethnic Albanians were killed in a genocide
Is an example of European colonization
Is the location of the only country with one ethnic group
Does not exist as a country today
Apartheid was segregation by LAW in ___.
Kosovo
South Africa
Croatia
Rwanda
Rwanda is well known for the genocide of the _________ people in 1994.
Twa
Hutu
Tutsi
Albanian
The Kurds are a stateless ethnic group who live ___
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
in four countries of the Middle East
in Iraq
in Turkey
