Understanding Racism, Stereotypes, and Prejudice

Vocabulary
Racism: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
Stereotype: is a preconceived notion, especially about a group of people.
Prejudice: unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.
Sexism: discrimination or devaluation based on a person's sex or gender, as in restricted job opportunities, especially such discrimination directed against women.
Adaptation: the process of changing to fit some purpose or situation.
Disabilities: limitation in the ability to

Discrimination: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.
Rights: rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and certain Congressional acts, especially as applied to an individual or a minority group.
Self-awareness: is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.
Anti-Bias: An anti-bias setting in a childcare center means that. The child is exposed to books of a variety of cultures, celebration of their culture , children are supplied with brown markers and multi-cultural paper, children are introduced to a variety of different foods from different cultures.
Race: a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
Ethnicity: an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the