Weeks 11 - 12

Question 1

White Privilege

Answer 1

Privilege possessed by white people that places them with advantage over people of color in a society of racial inequality and injustice, based on the colour of their skin

Question 2

White Fragility

Answer 2

This term refers to the reaction of white people of defensiveness, anger, fear, dismissal, and silence when exposed to conversations about racial inequality and privilege. This is connected with guilt and precents white people from seeing, challenging, and understanding racism.

Question 3

Othering

Answer 3

To treat another individual or group as ‘different’ and labelled as not belonging in the dominant group in society.

Question 4

Ethnocentrism

Answer 4

Assessing and judging the qualities of other people’s cultures based on the beliefs and customs of your own, therefore placing your own culture as the one that is the ‘right’ one, and other’s as inferior.

Question 5

Casual racism

Answer 5

Racism that is subtle and exists in everyday conversation or humour usually based on prejudice and bias and can be unintentional, but still harmful.

Question 6

Micro aggression

Answer 6

A comment or action that undermines a person based on their race, ethnicity, and culture. This can be intentional and unintentional, and is often indirect, and unnoticed by those who commit it.

Question 7

Colourism

Answer 7

Discrimination and prejudice against those with darker skin, often within groups of the same ethnicity and race.

Question 8

Colorblind racism

Answer 8

The idea that if we treat all individuals equally that racism shouldn’t exist, ignoring the history of racism and discrimination, societal structures, and white privilege that oppress people of colour.

Question 9

Individualism

Answer 9

The view that everyone can be assessed by their actions as an individual, and ignores white privilege, accumulation of wealth, social and historical context, structural impact. This supports the view of meritocracy that each person’s position in life is by their own achievements or inadequacies.

Question 10

Universalism

Answer 10

The perception that everyone is human and the same, that race doesn’t matter. This denies racial power, therefore asserts the absence of struggle for people of colour. Those who believe in universalism feels entitled to racial comfort, and cross-cultural trust.

Question 11

Relational

Answer 11

Considering how people or things are connected to each other

Question 12

Being Relational

Answer 12

Being engaged and respectful with others while living and working. Recognising the meanings imbedded in interactions and practices of others and respecting the lived experiences of others.

Question 13

Intercultural conflict (and contexts of)

Answer 13

Intercultural conflict refers to the expressed struggle caused by perceived incompatibility between cultures. Contexts of intercultural conflict are interpersonal, organisational, community, and international.

Question 14

Ontology

Answer 14

A study in philosophy of being, becoming, existing and reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

Question 15

Constitutive Abstraction / Ontological Formations

Answer 15

Each culture has a different place in these frames: Organisation and authority, production, communication, and exchange, these are analysed as a way of learning about how people relate to the world and each other.