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Race, Ethnicity, Nationality
Racism & Prejudice
Microagressions in the 21st Century
Questions that may occur
Fallacies of Racism
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This is a classification of modern humans, usually based on a combination of various physical characteristics. It originated when populations were partially reproductively isolated from other populations. However interracial reproduction renders strict categorization problematic.
What is Race?
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This is the collection of unearned cultural, political, economic, and social advantages and privileges possessed by people of Anglo-European descent or those who pass as such.
What is White Privelage?
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Brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults towards people of color.
What is Microagressions
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This is a response to,"Is Race a social construct or biological?"
What is "Race is a social construct but there are some biological components."
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This Fallacy is based on "Law" or based on "Fact." It is assumed that if racist laws are ingrained into our society and we remove those laws than the racism also is removed.
What is Legalistic Fallacy?
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This is a population of people who share a common culture (language, religion, food, beliefs, customs, etc.)
What is an Ethnicity?
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This is acting on prejudices in an unjust manor, negative verbal or physical acts based on a preconceived prejudice.
What is Discrimination?
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This is a response to the classic Microagression, "You're from where? Why don't you have an accent?"
What is "Do I have to speak a different way according to where I am from?"
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This is a response to,"Can White people suffer from racism?"?"
What is ," No, but White people can suffer prejudice. Racism is a social construct that was created from the dominant group to distribute rights, wealth, power, status, and values based on appearances to the less dominant groups.
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"This Fallacy renders history impotent." In other words, Historical Relevance of something such as slavery and saying because it is over, it doesn't matter anymore.
What is Ahistorical Fallacy?
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This is a complex polymer that determines skin and hair color. The more of this there is, the darker your skin will be which results in a higher degree of protection from harmful UV radiation.
What is Melanin?
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These are the 3 ways Prejudice is perpetuated.
What is Stereotypes? What is Omissions? (assumptions that people of color contributed little since no mention is made) What is Distortions? (because of social segregation, we often receive secondhand information about others. This information is often inaccurate because they are shaped by stereotypes)?
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This is a response to the classic Microagression, "So, like, what are you?"
What is "I'm not a what, I'm a human just like you do you mean what is my ethnicity or race?"
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This is a response to,"What steps can be taken to stop racism?"
What is," The first step would simply be to understand what race and racism are and how it has affected our own life and working to not have prejudices or say microagressions."
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This Fallacy is an assumption that states racism looks the same way throughout history. "Has racism truly increased or decreased in the past decade?"
What is Fixed Fallacy?
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This is citizenship, or membership in a specific politically delineated territory controlled by a government
What is Nationality?
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These are the 2 forms of Racism
What is Overt Racism? (active racism, or blatant, intentional acts of racial bigotry and discrimination) What is Covert Racism? (passive racism, or the subtle forms of racism found in habits and ordinary practices of our lives.
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This is a response to the classic Microagression, "No, where are you really from?"
What is "I am from here, I was born and raised here. Do you mean where are my ancestors from?"
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This is a response to,"How do you know the correct way to address the race of someone?"
What is," I personally don't know if there is a universal correct way to address the race of someone. I think it would be best to start with getting to know them and then respectfully ask the person what their race is."
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This Fallacy uses one person's success to describe the norm for an entire society. For example, if Barack Obama is president then the United States isn't and can't be racist.
What is Tokenistic Fallacy?
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Race is a symbolic category that is based on these two things.
What is Phenotype? (a person's physical appearance or constitution) What is Ancestry? (a person's family lineage)?
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These are the 4 ways of Institutional Racism
What is Symbolic Power? (classifies one group as "normal" and others as "abnormal" What is Political Power? (withholds basic rights form people of color and marshaling the full power of the state to enforce segregation and inequality) What is Social Power? (denies people of color full inclusion or membership in associational life) What is Economic Power? (privileges whites in terms of job placement, advancement, and wealth and property accumulation)
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This is a response to the classic Microagression, "You don't even look Spanish."
What is "Spanish is a language not a nationality."
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This is a response to,"If we are not biologically different, then why do we look different?"
What is," To an extremely genetic level, we are all biologically similar but due to the environments that our lineage has lived in, we have biologically adapted and changed such as our melanin levels which is why we don't all look the same."
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This Fallacy divides Racism in terms of two types of people; those guilty of racism and those innocent of racism. It sees racism as something that is either there or not there.
What is Individualistic Fallacy?