Unit 4- Keywords

Question 1

What is censorship?

Answer 1

The practice of suppressing and limiting access to material considered obscene, offensive or a threat to security.

Example: muting certain content considered inappropriate to some people.

Question 2

What is discrimination?

Answer 2

Acts of treating groups of people, or individuals differently, based on prejudice

Example: not giving a job to someone because they are a women

Question 3

What is Extreamism?

Answer 3

Believing in and supporting ideas that are far from what people think is reasonable or right

Example: Westburo baptist church

Question 4

What is human rights?

Answer 4

The basic entitlements that are given to all human beings.

Example: one human right is that all people should have the right to an education

Question 5

What is personal conviction?

Answer 5

Something a person strongly believes in or is passionate about

Example: Oscar Romeo fought against the government to help poverty even though this put him in danger

Question 6

What is prejudice?

Answer 6

Judging people to be superior or inferior without cause.

Example: seeing a group of teens and assume that they are out to cause trouble.

Question 7

What is relative poverty?

Answer 7

A standard of poverty measured in relation to standards of society in which a person lives

Example: living under the uk average income