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14 Cards in this Set
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What identifiers can be falsely communicated about a person?
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Gender | Age | Cultural Heritage | Economic Status | Sexual Orientation | Disability
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How do stereotypes become part of our culture?
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They become part of our culture when they are repeated enough times.
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What forms attitudes?
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What you believe and what you think is true.
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What are attitudes?
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General long-lasting positive or negative feelings.
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Describe Dominant Cultures.
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Dominant Cultures have the most economic and political influence over an entire society.
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What do Dominant Culture Groups do with images?
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Dominant Culture Groups control which images get seen.
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Give some specific examples of stereotyping.
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African American | Arab | Asian | Latino | Female | Gay | Native American
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Describe African American Stereotypes
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Difficulty over coming them despite reforms
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Describe Arab Stereotypes
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Convenience Store clerks, taxicab drivers, and religious fanatics.
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Describe Asian Stereotypes
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Good at math, bad drivers, golf obsessed and wealthy
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Describe Latino Stereotypes
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crime, terrorism, poverty, welfare, illegal immigration
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Describe Female Stereotypes
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Submissive, less important gender, treated more gently, tend to household, happiness in marriage and motherhood, valued for sex appeal
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Describe Native American Stereotypes
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blood-thirsty savages, alcoholics, romantic princesses and silent but wise sidekicks.
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Where to we go from here to combat stereotypes?
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members of all cultural groups must retreat to an original position in which roles and differences disappear.
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