The tendency to assume that one's culture is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
100
Discrimination in the past and in current practices.
What is total discrimination?
100
The most important force causing people to emigrate.
What are economic reasons?
100
The rights or immunities granted as a particular benefit or favor for being white.
What is white privilege?
200
Obvious physical differences define this group.
What is a racial group?
200
Denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice.
What is discrimination?
200
Efforts that help protect communities from hazardous substances regardless of the race or socioeconomic status involved.
What is environmental justice?
200
This percentage of the population today is foreign born.
What is 12%?
200
The pattern of grandchildren of immigrants increasing their interest in their ethnicity.
What is the third generation principle?
300
An example of this would be the Holocaust.
What is genocide?
300
A negative attitude toward an entire category of people.
What is prejudice?
300
Efforts to recruit subordinate groups members for jobs and educational opportunities.
What is affirmative action?
300
Immigration to the U.S. of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are desperately needed by their home countries.
What is brain drain?
300
An example of a secessionist minority.
What are the Amish?
400
When a subordinate individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant group.
What is assimilation?
400
Some of these include education, mass media, avoidance vs. friendship and diversity training.
What are ways to reduce prejudice?
400
Discrimination against people trying to buy homes in minority and racially changing neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
400
The fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers.
What is xenophobia?
400
These people make up the largest European American ancestral group in the United States?
What are Germans?
500
When a minority and a majority group combine to form a new group.
What is fusion?
500
Criminal offenses committed because of the offender's bias against a race, religion, ethnic/ national group or sexual orientation group.
What are hate crimes?
500
Blocking the promotion of qualified workers because of gender or minority status.
What is the glass ceiling?
500
Limiting immigration on the basis of a quota from each country.
What is the national origins system of immigration?
500
Every year Americans of Irish descent celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by attending parades, dressing in green, eating traditional Irish foods, and singing Irish ballads.