Question 1

Complete the Knowledge Check. Match words to definition.

Prejudice

Discrimination

Model Minority Stereotype

Feelings of Innate Difference

Colorism

Personal Discrimination

Institutional Discrimination

Quite Bias

Entitlement

-A group whose success should be a lesson to other ethnoracial minorities.

-A factor in developing prejudice, noting that "those people aren't like me."

-It is the belief that one's group has a rightful claim to certain privileges and advantages.

-It includes established laws, customs, policies, and practices that systematically reflect and produce inequalities in society, whether or not the individuals maintaining these practices have discriminatory intentionscan only work to the advantage of those who already wield power and control major social institutions.

-Subtle discrimination can be "cool, distant, and indirect". Such "quiet bias" might take forms that, at first blush, don't appear discriminatory at all.

-Defined as an oversimplified picture of the world, one that satisfies our need to see our social environment as a more understandable and manageable place than it really is.

-Refers to unfair treatment of certain groups by individual people.This type of discrimination includes biased treatment during face-to-face encounters, avoidance, exclusion, and threats or acts of violence.

-The term implies to act toward a person or group with partiality, typically because they belong to a minority; covers the range from avoidance, exclusion, and verbal attacks to physical attacks.

-Refers to skin-color prejudice originating during the period of slavery when whiteness was equated with all things refined and beautiful and blackness represented the sinister and the ugly. In such an environment, skin color (along with other race-related physical features like hair texture, nose shape, and lip prominence) became the paramount indicator of social status.

-Refers to a preconceived bias or opinion, not tested against reality. Typically understood as a feeling or attitude, positive or negative.