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Appendix D
Michael Shammos
Part I
Define the following terms:
|Term |Definition |
|Ethnic group |Is a group of people whose member identify with each other a common culture. |
|Anti-Semitism |This happens on a individual level and goes on the institutionalized prejudice and persecution once |
| |prevalent. |
|Islamophobia |Hatred or fear of Muslims or of their politics or culture |
|Xenophobia |Is the fear of foreigners an intense fear or dislike of foreign people, their customs and culture. |
|Persecution |Is a campaign or program to exterminate ,drive away, people or subjugate a people because of their |
| |religion, race or believes. |
|Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed beliefs, |
| |or doctrines. |
Part II
Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic group not your own from the list below.
• Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf)
o Christianity
• Evangelical Protestant
• Mainline Protestant
• Historically Black Churches
• Roman Catholic
• Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Orthodox (Greek, Eastern)
o Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform)
o Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana)
o Islam...