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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 (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like. |
Anti-Semitism | Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews. |
Islam phobia | 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: the persecutions of Christians by the Romans. |
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/racial group not your own from the list below.
* Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf)
* Christianity
* Evangelical Protestant
* Mainline Protestant
* Historically Black Churches
* Roman Catholic
* Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
* Jehovah’s Witnesses
* Orthodox (Greek, Eastern)
* Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform)
* Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana)
* Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufism)
* Hinduism
* Racial/Ethnic groups (based on divisions in U.S. Census Bureau documents)
* Asian (Asian descent)
* Black (African descent)
* Hispanic and Latino (South or Central American descent)
* Pacific Islander (Polynesian descent)
* White (European descent)
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* Part III
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Answer the following questions in 150 to 250 words each about the religious group you selected:
* How does your selected religious group differ from other religious groups (such as in...