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Ethnocentric people tend to view other cultures as abnormal because

A three-year-old boy scrapes his knee while playing in his backyard and immediately begins to cry. In response, his father walks over to him and says, “Don’t be a sissy; boys don’t cry.” This is an example of

An example of discrimination is

Which Mexican-American author is known for her contribtution to children’s literacy through the creation of Dia de los ninos?

Race is a true classification of people that is  based on any real or accurate biological or scientific truth.

What term did we discuss that referred to the feeling of belonging to a group; feeling of having a connection to others 

In the film, I Am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin discussed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X and Medgar Evers. 

Ethnicity refers to particular groups of people that share some common ancestry, traditions, language, or dialect.

What explanation does functionalism have for prejudice and discrimination today?

In the novel The Human Stain by Philip Roth, a professor at a college in the Northeast is forced into early retirement after he is accused of racism. The charge turns out to be ironic when the reader learns that the professor has a secret. The professor was born to African American parents and has been covering up his heritage and living as a white man his whole adult life. Of what is this an example?