Deck 5: Ethnocentrism and Racism

Question 1

Slaveholding is an illustration of the following criminal thinking error:

A) Ownership
B) Power thrust
C) Closed channel thinking
D) Good person self-image

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The life expectancy of nonwhites is _____ years less than that of whites in the United States.

A) 2
B) 6
C) 10
D) 15

Answer 2

B

Question 3

_____ involves the unfair treatment of a person,racial group,or minority.

A) Discrimination
B) Prejudice
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Racism

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In 1838 the United States forced _____ to march on foot covering several states,and an estimated 4,000 tribe members died from cold and exhaustion.

A) Cherokees
B) Navajos
C) Sioux
D) Apaches

Question 5

All of the following are true about slavery in this country except:

A) Slaves were not viewed as human beings, but as chattel to be bought and sold
B) Marriages among slaves were not recognized by the law
C) For a period of time it was illegal to teach African Americans to read or write
D) Abraham Lincoln believed that African Americans were equal to whites

Question 6

The _____ feels hostile to other groups but recognizes that law and social pressures are opposed to overt discrimination.

A) Prejudiced nondiscriminator
B) Unprejudiced nondiscriminator
C) Unprejudiced discriminator
D) Prejudiced discriminator

Question 7

The following is conceptualized to be a component of the authoritarian personality:

A) Such a person is flexible and has a high tolerance for uncertainty
B) Such a person has little respect for authority figures
C) Such a person highly values conventional behavior
D) Such a person respects members of minority groups

Question 8

______ is the criminal thinking error in which the criminal,in order to maintain self-image,minimizes/denies injuring victims either by an immediate criminal act or its far reaching effects on the victims and others in society in order to maintain self-image.

A) Victim stance
B) Lack of trust
C) Failure to consider injury to others
D) Lack of empathy

Question 9

_____ leads members of ethnic groups to view their culture as superior and as the one that other cultures should adopt.

A) Discrimination
B) Prejudice
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Racism

Question 10

The _____ does not believe in the values of freedom and equality and consistently discriminates against other groups in both word and deed.

A) Prejudiced nondiscriminator
B) Unprejudiced nondiscriminator
C) Unprejudiced discriminator
D) Prejudiced discriminator

Question 11

The following is true about race:

A) There are clearly delineating characteristics of any race
B) Each racial group has unique and distinctive genes
C) Race becomes a very dangerous myth when it is assumed that physical traits are linked with mental traits and cultural achievements
D) The fact that some studies have found that African Americans tend to receive, on the average, somewhat lower scores on IQ tests unquestionably demonstrates that African Americans are biologically inferior in intelligence

Question 12

The _____ is not personally prejudiced but may sometimes,reluctantly,discriminate against other groups because it seems socially or financially convenient to do so.

A) Prejudiced nondiscriminator
B) Unprejudiced nondiscriminator
C) Unprejudiced discriminator
D) Prejudiced discriminator

Question 13

_____ is a preconceived adverse opinion or judgment formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.

A) Discrimination
B) Prejudice
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Racism

Question 14

The history of oppression of African Americans,combined with racism and exclusion,has produced a _____ that threatens self-esteem and reinforces problematic responses in communities,families,and individuals.

A) Victim system
B) Power thrust
C) Good-person self-image
D) Projection

Question 15

Which of the following is true about violence against minorities in the United States:

A) During the 18ᵗʰ century, there were frequent massacres of Chinese mining and railroad workers in the West
B) The lynching of African Americans by white mobs stopped after the Civil War
C) In the past century, African Americans were lynched for such minor offenses as peeping into a window or seeking employment in a restaurant
D) The extermination of Native Americans in the United States began in the 1800s

Question 16

The _____,in both belief and practice,upholds American ideals of freedom and equality.

A) Prejudiced nondiscriminator
B) Unprejudiced nondiscriminator
C) Unprejudiced discriminator
D) Prejudiced discriminator

Question 17

_____ is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human capacities and traits,and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

A) Discrimination
B) Prejudice
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Racism

Question 18

Which of the following is true regarding Arab Americans and American Muslims:

A) Arab Americans comprise 5 percent of the American population
B) The United States and the United Nations recognize 21 separate Arab nations
C) Thirty-four to forty-two percent of Muslims in the United States are Arab
D) Christianity and Islam are faiths that are very similar

Question 19

The psychological defense mechanism in which one attributes to others characteristics that one is unwilling to recognize in oneself is called:

A) Projection
B) Competition and exploitation
C) Socialization
D) Frustration-aggression

Question 20

_____ is defined as having a common set of physical characteristics.

A) Prejudice
B) Ethnocentrism
C) Culturalism
D) Race

Question 21

In two-parent African American families,the _____ pattern of decision-making is most common.

A) Egalitarian
B) Authoritarian
C) Laissez-faire
D) Patriarchal

Question 22

In 1997,_____ passed an affirmative action ban.

A) Michigan
B) California
C) Wisconsin
D) Florida

Question 23

The "Jim Crow" caste system:

A) Advocated social equality
B) Advocated for political and legal rights to African Americans
C) Prescribed how African Americans were supposed to act in the presence of whites
D) Were used to help African Americans with their new-found freedom

Question 24

_____ provide(s)the social work profession with a global and contemporary set of guidelines.

A) Social justice
B) Human justice
C) Human rights
D) Ethnic-sensitive practice

Question 25

The National Association of Social Workers standard for cultural competence in social work practice of _____ states that social workers shall be able to communicate information about diverse client groups to other professionals.

A) Cross-cultural knowledge
B) Self-awareness
C) Adherence to the melting pot concept
D) Cross-cultural leadership

Question 26

The U.S.Supreme Court decision which ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional was decided in:

A) 1935
B) 1954
C) 1963
D) 1971

Question 27

Some Native American tribes have been completely exterminated by whites.

Question 28

The _____ pattern of intergroup relations views the future American society not as a modified England but rather as a totally new blend,both culturally and biologically,of all the various groups that inhabit the United States.

A) Melting pot
B) Cultural pluralism
C) Anglo-conformity

Question 29

Martin Luther King,Jr.was assassinated in:

A) 1962
B) 1964
C) 1966
D) 1968

Question 30

Ethnic-sensitive practice:

A) Includes the dual perspective aspect
B) Introduces new practice principles and approaches
C) Assumes that an individual's past experiences with oppression is the most important aspect
D) Is considered a deficit model of social work practice

Question 31

A group that is both a racial group and an ethnic group is Japanese Americans.

Question 32

_____ is a thriving retail business cooperative that was developed by the Latino immigrant community in Minneapolis.

A) El Centro Sociales
B) Mercado Central
C) Sagrado Sociales
D) Nuevo Puente

Question 33

Social workers may be _____,by linking oppressed client systems with needed resources.

A) Advocates
B) Initiators
C) Brokers
D) Analysts

Question 34

_____ is a Swahili word meaning Purpose,and is a quality encouraged during Kwanzaa,an African American celebration.

A) Imani
B) Nia
C) Kuumba
D) Umoja

Question 35

_____ is the pattern of intergroup relations that assumes the desirability of maintaining modified English institutions,language,and culture as the dominant standard in American life.

A) Melting pot
B) Cultural pluralism
C) Anglo-conformity

Question 36

The following is true about strategies against discrimination:

A) Mass media appeals generally have a lasting effect in changing deep-seated prejudices
B) Prejudice is likely to be decreased when contacts between minority groups and the majority group are tension-laden or involuntary
C) Prejudice is apt to subside when individuals of diverse races interact in situations where they share characteristics in nonracial and nonethnic matters
D) Increased contact between minority groups and the majority group is sufficient to alleviate prejudice

Question 37

In the history of our country,minorities have been subjected to extensive violence by whites in our society.

Question 38

Rosa Park's act that sparked the civil rights movement happened on a bus in:

A) Montgomery, Alabama
B) Selma, Alabama
C) Jackson, Mississippi
D) Biloxi, Mississippi

Question 39

Prejudice involves physical actions and unequal treatment of people because they belong to a category.

Question 40

It is possible for an ethnic group to be composed of a variety of races.

Question 41

Open-channel thinkers tend to over generalize and to see the world in absolute terms: good and bad,right and wrong,black and white.

Question 42

Criminal thinking derives from the theory of rational therapy.

Question 43

The Afrocentric perspective views the major sources of human problems in the United States as being oppression and alienation.

Question 44

De facto discrimination is always illegal.

Question 45

Only people who hold prejudices toward a racial group will discriminate against that group.

Question 46

In 2003,the U.S.Supreme Court denied the right of colleges to consider race in admissions.

Question 47

Some authorities have noted that opposition to the spread of slavery preceding the Civil War was due less to moral concern than to Northern fears of competition from slave labor and the rapidly increasing migration of blacks to the North and West.

Question 48

Racial and ethnic stereotypes involve attributing a fixed and usually inaccurate or unfavorable conception to a racial or ethnic group.

Question 49

Many nations view our country as being hypocritical because we advocate human rights and equality but,at the same time,we have had a long history of racial discrimination.

Question 50

Members of the dominant group often seek to justify discrimination against minorities by developing an ideology that their group is superior and then concluding that minorities need and deserve less.

Question 51

More than three-quarters of all African American children are being raised in single-parent families.

Question 52

The white majority determines the "place" of nonwhites and other ethnic groups in our society.

Question 53

Self-concept and sense of self are entirely different concepts.

Question 54

Social Darwinism asserts the belief that the superior race must dominate all other races in order to ensure survival.

Question 55

In Brown vs.Board of Education,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Question 56

Abraham Lincoln believed that African Americans were inferior to whites.

Question 57

The politics of disorder engages in rhetoric about minority victimization,but because the focus is not on solutions,the rhetoric has not been productive.

Question 58

It is impossible for an unprejudiced person to discriminate against other groups.

Question 59

The authoritarian personality views members of minority groups as being unconventional,and expresses this through prejudice and discrimination.

Question 60

Oppression is the social act of placing severe restrictions on a group or institution.

Question 61

Chicano men,as contrasted to Anglo men,appear to have greater pride in their maleness.

Question 62

The concepts of human rights and social justice are identical.

Question 63

When working with Native Americans,it is desirable for a white worker to maintain direct eye contact with Native American clients.

Question 64

About one-half of the recognized Native American tribes have casinos.

Question 65

The dual perspective asserts that the adverse consequences of an oppressive society on the self-concept of a person of color or of any minority group can be partially offset by the dominant system.

Question 66

In working with adult clients who are not fluent in the English language,it is generally useful for the bilingual children of the clients to serve as interpreters.

Question 67

Cite examples of violence against minorities in the United States,beginning with the early Pilgrims.

Question 68

Social workers are unlikely to have racial and ethnic stereotypes and prejudices.

Question 69

Discuss how Christianity and Islam faiths are similar.

Question 70

Human rights provide the social work profession with a global and contemporary set of guidelines.

Question 71

List eight examples of white privilege.

Question 72

The melting pot appears to be the form that race and ethnic relations are presently taking in the United States.

Question 73

A key instrument used in an asset-based model of community development is a needs survey.

Question 74

Compare the terms discrimination and prejudice. In what situations can one be prejudiced and not discriminate?

Question 75

The asset-based community development example in the text of the Mercado Central is located in St.Louis.

Question 76

The melting pot implies a series of coexisting groups,each preserving its own tradition and culture but each loyal to an overarching American nation.

Question 77

President George W.Bush vetoed increased funding for historically black colleges.

Question 78

Anglo-conformity assumes the desirability of maintaining modified English institutions,language,and culture as the dominant standard in American life.

Question 79

What is meant by the term institutional racism? Give examples. What are your suggestions for reducing or eliminating institutional racism?

Question 80

Jokes and sarcastic remarks related to race help shape and perpetuate racist stereotypes and prejudices.