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Additional (86-87) explanations for racism / discrimination: a) the socialization process (if the parents are racists, the child growing up learns to hate certain racial groups); b) economic competition (when security is threatened, prejudice can come into play; Blacks and Czechs in some instances were biased against Vietnamese immigrants because the Vietnamese were supposedly taking jobs away from those already here in the U.S. And in Czechoslovakia).

Ossman presents a number of explanations as to how people that are blatantly biased (prejudged) against others of different skin color show their feelings. a) Stereotyping (an "oversimplified" and unfair generalization; "Mexicans are lazy," for example); b) ethnophaulisms (expressions that are demeaning, disparaging, meant to hurt; meant to belittle); c) ethnic jokes (clearly intended as negative stereotyping); d) misogyny in rap music (women are "bitches") (98-99).

Reducing prejudice is the goal of every fair-minded individual no matter what ethnicity he or she belongs to. On page 101 Ossman suggests contact hypothesis is a way in which members of various cultural / ethnic groups can work cooperatively and learn to respect each other. The jigsaw classroom can reduce racial prejudice, as can cooperative learning strategies, but there is the ever-present tendency to use selective perceptions (they accept that particular information which doesn't threaten their own beliefs).

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Confers dominance: suggests one skin color is the more powerful one

Unearned entitlement / unearned advantage: white skin has power / a

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Ethnocentrism: the belief tht one's ethnicity is better thn ll others displced ggression: being mistreted s child nd lter mistreting others to get even scpegoting: blming person of nother ethnicity when tht person is not to blme prejudice: hving bised view of nother person or nother ethnicity cognitive levels of prejudice: being wre of one's bises, thinking rcist thoughts sociliztion process: if person's prents were bised ginst certin group, chnces re the person growing up in tht household will pick up the bis through sociliztion economic competition: when immigrnts tke jobs tht might otherwise go to people tht re lredy in the U.S. It sets up bis bsed on vilbility of jobs stereotyping: using unfir generliztions to slp lbel on person or culture ethnophulisms: hurtful, men-spirited words used ginst persons or cultures contct hypothesis: working together with people of other rces or skin colors cn improve understnding between people of different bckgrounds jigsw clssroom: hving severl groups in clss ech look up prt of n ssignment nd then they come together to shre wht they hve lerned with the entire clss; it instills sense of coopertion nd peceful progress selective perceptions: choosing informtion tht the person is comfortble with nd ignoring or being bised ginst informtion tht does not mtch with wht one believes in Works.....

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