| A | B |
| Stereotyping results from | Overgeneralization |
| Population transfer | Forcing members of a minority to leave the territory of the dominant group. |
| Lack of authority and power | Factors which separate a minority group from the dominant group. |
| Genocide | Hitler's policy of an attempt to exterminate all Jews. |
| Racism | Belief that one's own ethnic or racial group is superior. |
| Assimilation | Minority group's loss of own identity and acquisition of the characteristics of the dominant group. |
| De jure segregation | Existed in the South after the Civil War: segregated restaurants waiting rooms, etc. |
| Prejudice | Learned belief or attitude. |
| Discrimination | Action or behavior which denies equal access to privileges and opportunities. |
| White ethnics | Immigrants from Europe (EXCEPT British Americans) |
| Race | Category of people who share physical characteristics. |
| Patterns of minority group treatment | Legal protection, extermination, population transfer, subjugation, cultural pluralism. |
| African American treatment | Includes de facto segregation, legal protection, subjugation, de jure segregation. |
| Slavery | Ownership of one group by another. |
| De facto segregation | Segregation based on informal norms |
| Minority groups | Group who lacks power, privilege, and prestige in a society. |
| Switzerland | Example of cultural pluralism |
| Self-fulfilling prophecy | A prediuction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true. |
| Ethnicity | The sharing of cultural characteristics. |
| Granted U.S. citizenship in 1924 | Native Americans/American Indians |
| Ascribed status, unequal treatment, practice endogamy | Characteristics of minorities |
| Example of stereotyping | "All teachers are mean" |