Definitions
What is race?
Physical characteristics that you share in common with people groups that make up whether you are White, Black, Latino, Asian etc...
What's one part of your identity people can see? Every example is 100 points!
Race, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Ability/Disability, Culture(s)
**Sometimes our assumptions get this wrong!**
Give an example of religion.
Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Paganism, Buddhism
What is a stereotype?
A stereotype is a popular belief about a group of people or something that may or may not be true.
What does the month of February celebrate and acknowledge?
Black History Month!
What is nationality?
Where you are born / the country you physically are from.
What's one part of your identity others can't see? Every answer is 200 points!
Your beliefs/religion, some disabilities, sexual orientation, languages, social class
**Sometimes our assumptions get this wrong!**
Give an example of a nationality.
American, Mexican, German, Kenyan, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Egyptian, Nigerian, Australian, Brazilian
False: Stereotypes only give you part of a story.
True or false: Black people were free after slavery.
Mostly false: Black people still faced heavy discrimination, including sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, physical violence and death.
What is ethnicity?
False, many people still treat you in certain ways because of the parts your identity they can see.
Give an example of an age stereotype for young people.
Young people are lazy, young people aren't intelligent, young people have it easy these days...
Give me one stereotype based on nationality.
Americans eat greasy food, Canadians are nice, French people are snobby...
What was Martin Luther King's Dream?
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" // For black people to have equal rights and live their lives freely.
What is religion?
Why is identity important?
Identity is how you see yourself, and how the world sees you, which changes how you experience your life, and how other people might treat you. Identity is often based on your experiences and different cultures.
Give an example of gender discrimination.
Not allowing someone from a certain gender to do something, assuming someone from a certain gender can or can't do something, treating people in the same job differently because of their gender
What is the danger/harm of only interacting with people based on stereotypes?
You can start a fight/problem, you can hurt someone mentally, you can discriminate against them, you can miss out on who they are as a person, you can embarrass yourself!
Madam CJ Walker became the first black female millionaire in the US, and helped other black women be more in control of their own money. What type of business did she start? / What kind of things did her business sell?
Black hair care products
What does "intersex" mean?
Having male and female sexual characteristics in a way that does not fit the "typical" definition of male or female.
How do you show respect to someone with a different identity than you?
You can look up more about that identity online, you can listen to that person's point of view, you can keep your impulses to yourself AND learn about why those impulses are inappropriate, you can speak from an "I perspective" and share your experience.
What's an example of a cultural tradition that is not from the United States?
Dia de los Muertos, Chinese New Year, Diwali, etc...
What is a stereotype about one of your identities, and what is true about you?
*Any thoughtful answer*
Which black scientist, inventor and educator created hundreds of ways to use peanuts?
George Washington Carver