Terms 1
When everyone receives the same thing
Equality
When everyone receives what they need to become successful.
Equity
When we assign a quality to all members of a ‘group’.
Stereotype
What is the human body’s largest organ?
Skin
In chess, what direction can a bishop move?
Diagonally
Treating someone unfairly particularly based on a group that they belong to such as age, race, gender, etc.
Discrimination
Having the ability to determine your own outcomes but also the outcomes of others.
Power
A predetermined opinion about someone or a group that is not based on facts.
Prejudice
Which two countries have the longest shared international border?
Canada and the U.S.
In Greek mythology, who was known as the messenger of the gods?
Hermes
Excluded from opportunities given to most in society.
Marginalized
A person or group who is consistently blamed for failures.
Scapegoat
A person who supports the rights of individual in marginalized groups but is not a member of the group themselves.
Ally
What year was the first iPhone released?
2007
What is the more popular name for the portrait officially titled “La Gioconda,” painted in Florence in 1503?
The Mona Lisa
Common everyday insults or behaviours that often unconsciously display discrimination towards a specific person and/or group
Microaggressions
Action taken by a group to create improvements in the lives of all members of the group
Collective Action
The belief that inequality is fair because some groups have more power/status than others; those high in social dominance orientation are usually a part of the dominant group and choose careers in law and politics to keep them in power.
Social Dominance Theory
What New York City bar was the location of a 1969 uprising credited as sparking the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement?
The Stonewall Inn
What was the birth name of boxing legend Muhammad Ali?
Cassius Clay
groups that have more access to resources and power than other groups.
Dominant & Subordinate Groups
People who belong to more than one subordinate group experience more discrimination than those who belong to only one
Double Jeopardy Hypothesis
the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
Intersectionality
What sign is directly opposite Scorpio in the zodiac?
Taurus
What was the first country to give women the right to vote?
New Zealand — in 1893, all women across races and ethnicities who were “British subjects” in New Zealand won the right to vote. This included Indigenous women, like Māori women, but excluded groups who did not have citizenship in New Zealand, like Chinese women.