Deck 14: A: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Scapegoat theory holds that the most powerful people in a society are the most likely to be prejudiced.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Prejudice and discrimination can be either positive or negative.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T.W.Adorno linked extreme prejudice to a certain personality type.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Race or ethnicity often serves as a master status.

Question 5

"Minority" populations can sometimes constitute a numerical majority.

Question 6

All members of a minority category are poor.

Question 7

In the Canadian pavilion in Disney world,a movie about Canada is shown that has no white people in it.

Question 8

Being Greek,Italian,or Vietnamese involves a distinctive ethnicity.

Question 9

Culture theory states that prejudice remains widespread despite the fact that our culture defines all prejudice as wrong.

Question 10

Discrimination is an unfair belief about an entire category of people.

Question 11

The ethnicity of a person can be changed.

Question 12

In most cases,race and ethnicity refer to the same thing.

Question 13

Although based on physical traits like skin color,the concept of "race" is constructed by society.

Question 14

At least some prejudice is found in everyone.

Question 15

Scientific research shows that there are three biologically pure races.

Question 16

All members of a minority typically share a distinctive identity.

Question 17

Prejudice is a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people

Question 18

All members of a minority are disadvantaged.

Question 19

Sociologically speaking,a minority is any category that is numerically less than half of a society's population.

Question 20

Ethnicity is harder to change than racial identity.

Question 21

Prejudice and discrimination can reinforce one another.

Question 22

Prejudice and discrimination are found in not just individuals but in the operation of society's institutions.

Question 23

In the 2001-2006 period,the largest group of immigrants to Canada was from India.

Question 24

Segregation refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people.

Question 25

There are likely 3 million Canadians who have Aboriginal roots.

Question 26

Pluralism is the idea that people should live with their own kind.

Question 27

The Toronto Metropolitan Area has the largest immigrant component in Canada.

Question 28

Assimilation refers to all people shedding their traditions and "melting" into a new population with a new way of life.