Understanding Race, Culture, and Ethnicity


1. A Latino American of Mexican heritage has a strong dislike for Latino Americans of South American heritage.         This is a failure to understand Ethnicity

2. An American woman counsels a Somalian immigrant woman to get a job to have extra money for herself.     
This is a failure to understand Culture

3. An Anglo (European) American businessman establishes an English Only policy for people working for his company.   
This is a failure to understand Racism

4. African American college student is in conflict with her Asian American roommate over listening to music while they are studying.   
This is a failure to understand Sacralization

5. A Jewish American businessman establishes a business practice of dealing only with other Jewish American businessmen.   This is a failure to understand Prejudice

6. An Anglo (European) American single mother chooses not to attend a support group for single mothers led by an African American single mother.   
This is a failure to understand Race

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