Strategic Essentialism

Question 1

Define ethnicity

Answer 1

Group of individuals who identify themselves as belonging to a social grouping which is distinct
- language, lifestyle, religion

Question 2

Define race

Answer 2

• confined to classification of physical characteristics such as skin colour & hair texture, reflect ancestry and geographical origins, historically identified by others or increasingly being self-identified

Question 3

Define racism

Answer 3

A belief that some races are superior to others

Question 4

Define prejudice

Answer 4

Positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived group membership

Question 5

Define discrimination

Answer 5

Prejudicial treatment of an individual based on his/her membership in a certain group

Question 6

Define stereotype

Answer 6

Conventional oversimplified conception, opinion or image of a group of people or things