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CHAPTER 10 – Race and EthnicityFill in the BlankSelect the missing terms from each section and place them in the correct blank space. Section 1Ambivalent Apartheid AssimilationAttitudes De facto De jureDominant group Ethnic group GenocideInternal colonialism Minority group Path to citizenshipPluralism Race Racial-ethnic groupSegregation Socially StricterUnauthorized Wealthy White privilegeThe U.S. is the most multicultural country in the world. _________ refers to a _________ defined group of people who share genetically transmitted physical characteristics. An _________ is a set of people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage. A group of people who have both distinctive physical and cultural characteristics is a _________. _________ is the advantages that white people enjoy simply because they happen to be in a particular category. Most white people don’t feel privileged because they aren’t _________, but they still earn taken for granted advantages such as being able to buy picture books, toys, and magazines regularly featuring white people. A major change has been the rise of _________ immigrants. Most Americans are _________ about legal immigration: 40 percent say that immigrants have made the country better in terms of food, music, and the arts, but a majority feels that immigrants have increased taxes and crime. _________ about legal immigration vary depending on the social context. Those who want _________ enforcement of current laws and more deportations claim that low-skilled immigrants reduce the standard of living and overload schools and welfare systems. Those who endorse an efficient “_________” for unauthorized immigrants maintain that undocumented immigrants provide numerous economic benefits for their host countries – a position supported by many scholars. A _________ is any physically or culturally distinctive group that has the most economic and political power, the greatest privileges, and the highest social status in a society. In South African _________, a formal system of racial segregation, the white minority held social, economic, and political power. Even after the end of apartheid in 1994, blacks remain a minority group. A _________ is a group of people who have less social power and may be subject to differential and unequal treatment because of their physical, cultural, or other characteristics, such as gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or skin color. _________ is the systematic effort to kill all members of aparticular ethnic, religious, political, racial, or national group. _________ refers to the unequal treatment and subordinate status of groups within a nation. _________ is the physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups. The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case declared _________ (legal) segregation unconstitutional. _________ (informal) segregation has replaced de jure segregation in the United States. Many minority-group members blend into U.S. society through _________, when a minority group internalizes the culture of the dominant group. _________ describes when minority groups retain their culture but have equal social standing in a society.CHAPTER 10 – Race and EthnicityFill in the BlankSelect the missing terms from each section and place them in the correct blank space.Section 2African Americans American Indians BetterDiscrimination Educational EthnocentrismEuropean Individual InstitutionalInstitutional discrimination Involuntarily Larger Latinos Model minority MuslimsPrejudice Prejudiced nondiscriminators RacismScapegoating Slavery SocioeconomicStereotype Unprejudiced discriminatorsUnprejudiced nondiscriminators White Anglo Saxon Protestants_________ is an attitude, positive or negative, toward people because of their group membership. _________ is a form of prejudice attributing inferiority to a racial group. A _________ is a rigid generalization about a category of people. _________ is the tendency to judge one’s culture as superiorto others. Stereotypes and ethnocentrism can result in _________ - blaming or punishing relatively powerless groups or individuals for majority group members’ problems. _________ is any act that treats people unequally or unfairly because of their group membership. _________ discrimination is harmful action directed intentionally on a one-to-one basis by a member of a dominant group against a member of a minority group. If minorities experience unequal treatment because of the everyday operation of society’s customs, they are experiencing _________ discrimination. Prejudice and discrimination combine in different ways. Robert Merton defined _________, or “all-weather liberals,” as individuals who are not prejudiced and do not discriminate. _________ are “fair-weather liberals” who aren’t prejudiced but discriminate because it’s expedient or in their own self-interest to do so. _________ are “timid bigots” who are prejudiced but don’t discriminate.About 58 percent of the U.S. population has a _________ background, also known as WASPs (_________.)After emigrating from western European countries, WASPs looked down on more recent immigrants from southern and eastern European countries. _________ are the fastest-growing minoritygroup. As with other groups, the _________ status of Latinos reflects a number of interrelated factors, especially education level, being able to speak English, recency of immigration, and occupation. _________ are the second largest minority group in the United States. Most African Americans are members of the only group ever brought to the United States _________ and legally enslaved. The legacy of _________ is still evident in higher levels of poverty among African Americans. However, the gap in_________ achievement between whites and African Americans has decreased.Asian Americans are often hailed as a “_________.” Such labels are misleading, however, because many households are_________ than average and include more workers. _________ used to be called the “vanishing Americans,” but have higher birth rates, a longer life expectancy, and better health services than they once had. American Indians are better off today than they were a decade ago, but long-term _________ has made progress difficult. Immigrants from the Middle East are a heterogeneous population; most are _________, but many are Christians or Jews. Middle


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