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    Stereotypes & Prejudice

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    describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: Race Ethnicity Religion Gender Sexual orientation Age Disability Category Stereotype 1 Stereotype 2 Stereotype 3 Sexual Orientation Men who get manicures are homosexual. Gay Partners do not make good parents. If your gay you are not be a good Christian‚ Gender A woman will not make a good President. Video Games are made for men. Women do not know how to drive. Ethnicity African American’s are good at basketball. Asian people

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    Essentialism In Rwanda

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    many new nations were created and because of arbitrary lines drawn by the western powers‚ many different ethnic groups were sometimes included in the same nation. After the boundary lines were drawn‚ competition for power began to occur and the ethnicities which had been fighting for much of their history continued to act on these deep rooted hatreds. Another aspect of this philosophy is primordialism which argues that ethnic groups form strong bonds and that these bonds are more important to people

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    Human Diversity Chapter 4 Vocabulary in italics: from page 67 to page 80. 1. Ethnicity is based on a conception of a shared cultural heritage. Refers to an individual’s cultural heritage‚ separate from one’s physical character. Per David Maybury-Lewis-ethnicity has a will-o-the-wisp quality that makes it extremely hard to analyze and not much easier to discuss. 2. Ethnic Group – collective of people who BELIEVE they share a common history‚ culture‚ or ancestry. Refers to an individual’s

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    How We Define Ourselves

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    they may do or say. Things such as: Black‚ White‚ upper class‚ lower class‚ Northerner‚ Southerner‚ and Immigrant start to become the labels of others. Everyday people are judged by things such as these cultural characteristics. The different ethnicities in America start to break apart from a whole and become their own. America must learn to become one and stop defining each other separately. America is formed of very extreme diverse people. Instead of Americans all being treated the same they

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    Blood in Blood Out Thesis

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    obstacles trying to be accepted with people of our own ethnicity and at times this fails either because of your physical appearance or the way you’re perceived by others. What is the context of the film? Blood in Blood out directed by Taylor Hackford‚ focuses on half brothers Paco and Cruz‚ and biracial cousin Miklo. The film focuses more on their cousin Miklo who is anglo and mexican. Miklo was living with his dad who’s ethnicity is white‚ but Miklo gets into an argument with the dad

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    The Kite Runner

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    beginning of the novel. Amir lives in a luxurious home with his father‚ while Hassan resides in a mud hut on the property of Hassan’s father. Hassan and Amir’s relationship as well as their personal lives are frequently affect by economic status‚ ethnicity‚ and religious beliefs. These specific divisions are clearly communicated through the two boys and are important theme. Economic status is the first division that is mentioned in this novel‚ when the readers learn that Amir lives in lavish home

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    Eth/125 Week 4 Quiz 2

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    The principle of third-generation interest states that a. the grandchildren of the original immigrants would have an increased interest in their ethnicity. b. the grandchildren of the original immigrants would have a decreased interest in their ethnicity. c. the children of immigrants would have more of an interest in their ethnicity than their children. d. none of these 4. The Italian padrone of the nineteenth century was a a. locally elected official. b. second-generation

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    What Is Australian Identity

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    this national identity being re-shaped by immigration. This paper will also identify if the Australian identity is increasingly “hybrid” one. Many questions have arisen addressing the Australian national identity. There has been claimed that ethnicity and multiculturalism are two of the factors that influence our sense of national identity. Van Krieken et al (2006‚ p.277) explained that the Australian national identity could be seen “as having been historically formed around a distinctive Anglo-Celtic

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    differences. Some humans have different mental and/or physical differences. History has shown that differences (physical or mental) have let to wars and disagreements. The novel Things Fall Apart‚ by Chinua Achebe‚ show that categories between race and ethnicities have been used to empower and oppress by murdering those who are “inferior” and treating differently those who are “inferior”. The novel shows that European missionaries have murdered those who disagreed with them because they (the Europeans) were

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    Inclusion Week 1 Individual SOC/315 What are the dimensions of cultural diversity? Identify and briefly explain the dimensions by referencing both textbooks. The dimensions of cultural diversity are made up of peoples of different races‚ ethnicities‚ religion and genders that when they come together their cultural characteristics that make them up should not be thrown away or overlooked‚ rather it should be preserved and respected. Harvey and Allard (2009) say that “Cultural features do not

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