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What is race?
category of people who share same skin color and associated physical qualities
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What is ethnicity?
cluster of non-physical cultural characteristics
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What are cultural stereotypes?
set of traits and characteristics that people associate with a particular social group
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What are personal social beliefs?
aspects of the cultural stereotype of ethnic groups that they themselves believe or espouse
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What is colorism?
stereotyping and discrimination based on skin color that occurs within a racial group
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What is the stereotype content model?
model stating that stereotypes about other groups often reflect two content dimensions: competence and sociability
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What is ambivalence?
association of both positive and negative traits toward an ethnic group
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What is racism?
behavior that discriminates against people because of their race
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What is affirmative action?
promote equal opportunity for Blacks in college admissions and the workplace
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What are scapegoats?
targets of displaced hostility, tend to be members of relatively powerless social groups like immigrants
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What is White privilege?
state of having advantage and opportunity because of one's White skin color
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What is White guilt?
associated with negative evaluations of one's (white) racial group, greater awareness of the privileges of being White compared to Black
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What are the black cultural stereotypes?
Lazy, ignorant, musical, superstitious, religious, athletic.
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What are the hispanic cultural stereotypes?
laziness, aggressiveness, cruelty, ignorance, and low intelligence
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What are the asian cultural stereotypes?
intelligent, industrious, quiet, family oriented, and being good in math and science.
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What are the jewish cultural stereotypes?
- intelligent, ambitious, successful, industrious, and loyal to family (postive)
- dishonesty, money loving, pushy, and ruthlessness (negative)
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Cultures and stereotype content model:
- Blacks (lowest warmth, lowest competence)
- Latino (low warmth, low competence)
- Jew (low warmth, semi-high competence)
- Asians (low warmth, high competence)
- baby face black (semi-low warmth, high competence)
- White (high warmth, high competence)
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What is contemptuous prejudice?
marked by feelings of anger and resentment
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What is envious prejudice?
feelings of jealousy toward those of stereotypically high competence and low warmth
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What is paternalistic prejudice?
feelings of sympathy and pity
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Racism and criminal justice system?
Blacks more aggressive and violent than whites. Blacks more likely to be incarcerated than whites (juries more likely in favor of whites)
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Racism and health care system?
leads to less medical pill subscriptions being filled due to feeling of racial discrimination
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