Week 9

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

a group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups

Question 2

Genocide

Answer 2

the systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity (soykırım)

Question 3

Ethnicity(and ethnic)

Answer 3

having distinctive cultural characteristics (Language, religion, customs, habits, ceremonies)

Question 4

Minority group

Answer 4

people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination, discrimination

Question 5

dominant group

Answer 5

the group with the most power,greatest privileges,and highest social status

Question 6

ethnic work

Answer 6

activities designed to discover,enhance, maintain, or transmit an ethnic or racial identity

Question 7

discrimination

Answer 7

an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group

Question 8

Prejudice

Answer 8

An attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way

Question 9

Racism

Answer 9

Prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race

Question 10

Contact theory

Answer 10

The idea that the more frequently you interact with people who has been discriminated the negative stereotypes decrease

Question 11

Three fictitious racist points

Answer 11

Prejudice does not depend on negative experiences with others.
It is not experienced, It is learned.
Both whites and blacks think that whites are superior.

Question 12

institutional discrimination(systemic discrimination)

Answer 12

negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society’s institutions

Question 13

individual discrimination

Answer 13

person-to-person or face-to-face discrimination; the negative treatment of people by other individuals

Question 14

Scapegoat

Answer 14

an individual or group unfairly blamed for someone else’s troubles

Question 15

Conformity

Answer 15

behaviour in accordance with socially accepted conventions

Question 16

Authoritarian personality

Answer 16

Theodor Adorno’s term for people who are prejudiced and rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority, and submissiveness to superiors

Question 17

Functionalist perspective of prejudice

Answer 17

The key to understanding prejudice cannot be found by looking inside people, but, rather, by examining conditions outside them.

Question 18

Compartmentalize

Answer 18

to separate acts from feelings or attitudes

Question 19

population transfer

Answer 19

the forced movement of a minority group

Question 20

Segregation

Answer 20

the policy of keeping racial-ethnic groups apart

Question 21

Multiculturalism (Pluralism)

Answer 21

a policy that permits or encourages ethnic differences

Question 22

Affirmative action

Answer 22

a policy aimed at increasing workplace and educational opportunities for people who are underrepresented in various areas of our society

Question 23

Acculturation

Answer 23

assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one

Question 24

Assimilation

Answer 24

Adaptation of one ethnic or social group-usually a minority– to another. Assimilation involves the subsuming of language, traditions,values, mores and behaviour or even fundamental vital interests.
Assimilation is the most extreme form of acculturation.

Question 25

Brain drain

Answer 25

Beyin göçü

Question 26

Brain gain (reverse brain drain)

Answer 26

Immigration of trained and talented individuals into the destination country

Question 27

Irregular migration

Answer 27

Movement that takes place outside the regulatory norms of the sending, transit and receiving countries. (Bir nevi kaçak gitmek) ## Footnote There is, however, a tendency to restrict the use of the term "illegal migration" to cases of smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons.

Question 28

Labour migration

Answer 28

Movement of persons from one state to another, or within their own country of residence, for the purpose of employment.

Question 29

Migrant

Answer 29

any person who is moving or has moved across an international border or within a state away from his/her habitual place of residence

Question 30

Migration

Answer 30

The movement of a person or a group of persons, either across an international border, or within a State. ## Footnote it includes migration of family reunification.

Question 31

Push-pull factors 

Answer 31

the push factors, which drive people to leave their country (such as economic, social, or political problems) and the pull factors attracting them to the country of destination

Question 32

Receiving country

Answer 32

Country that has accepted to receive a certain number of refugees and migrants on a yearly basis by presidential, ministerial or parliamentary decision.

Question 33

Country of origin

Answer 33

The country that is a source of migratory flows (regular or irregular)

Question 34

Remittances

Answer 34

The money earned or acquired by non-nationals that are transferred back to their country of origin. ## Footnote Remittances represent one of the largest sources of income for people in low-income and developing nations.

Question 35

Refugee

Answer 35

any person compelled to leave his or her country "owing to external aggression,occupation, foreign domination or events seriously disturbing public order in either part or the whole of his country or origin or nationality

Question 36

Smuggling

Answer 36

the illegal movement of goods into or out of a country ## Footnote Smuggling, contrary to trafficking, does not require an element of exploitation, coercion, or violation of human rights.

Question 37

Xenophobia

Answer 37

attitudes, prejudices and behaviour that reject, exclude and often vilify persons, based on the perception that they are **outsiders** or **foreigners** to the community, society or national identity. | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners

Question 38

Melting pot

Answer 38

Different cultures and ethnicities being together

Question 39

Tossed salad

Answer 39

Different cultures and ethnicities coexist while maintaining their cultures