Eth 125 Appendix D

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Appendix D

Part I

Define the following terms:

|Term |Definition |

|Ethnic group |Pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group sharing a common and distinctive |

| |culture, religion, language, or the like. |

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

|Islamophobia |Hatred or fear of Muslims or of their politics or culture. |

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

|Persecution |A program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate a people because of their religion, |

| |race, or beliefs. |

|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,...