Eth/125 Week Four Appendix D

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Appendix D

Part I

Define the following terms:

|Term |Definition |

|Ethnic group |People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |

|Anti-Semitism |Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews |

|Islamophobia |Prejudice against Muslims |

|Xenophobia |An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers, or of that which is foreign or strange |

|Persecution |Is planned ill-behavior towards someone of a specific group |

|Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, |

| |beliefs, doctrines, practices, or rituals |

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 (Sunni, Shia, Sufism)

o Hinduism

• Ethnic groups (based on divisions in U.S. Census Bureau documents)

o Asian (Asian descent)

o Black (African descent)

o Hispanic and Latino (South or Central American descent)

o Pacific Islander (Polynesian descent)

o...