-All Races have Geniuses and Idiots, As with language no race is superior to another.

Example- Hitler’s idea that Aryans were a superior race and responsible for the cultural achievement of Europe. The Aryans he said were destined to establish a superior culture and usher in a new world order. This destiny required them to avoid “racial contamination” therefore it was necessary to isolate or destroy races that threatened the Aryan purity and culture.

-Idea that any Race is Pure
-Human characteristics flow endlessly together
-Humans show such a mixture of physical characteristics- in skin, color, hair texture, nose shape....
-Humans only vary from one another in only very slight ways.

Minority Groups

Defined by Louis Wirth

-People who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.
-Minority group can be racial or ethnic
-Minority group not necessarily numerical minority
-There physical or cultural traits are held in low esteem by the dominant group, which treats them unfairly and they tend to marry within their own group.

-Expansion of Political boundaries only if it incorporates people with different customs, languages, values, and physical characteristics

-Migration

-Ethic work: the way people construct their ethic identity.

  For people who have a strong ethnic identity this term refers to how they enchance and maintain their groups distinctions from clothing, food... language.

    For people who have a weak ethnic identity this term refers to their attempts to recover their ethnic heritage such as tracing family lines....

The negative treatment of  one person by another.

EX- Kids throwing ham sandwich as somalians because they don’t eat pork

- John Dollard

People are unable to strike out are the real source of their frustration and look for someone to blame. They unfairly attribute their troubles to a scapegoat often a racial ethic or religious minority and this person or group becomes a target on which they vent their frustrations.

Theodor Adorno

-Wondered if there is a type of person who is more likely to fall for the racist spewing of people like Hitler, Mussolini, and those in the KKK.
-He tested 2000 people ranging from college professors to prison inmates to measure their ethnocentrism, anti-semitism (biased against Jews), and support for strong authoritarian leaders. He found that people who scored well on one of the tests also scored well on the other two.
-He concluded that highly prejudiced people are insecure conformists and have deep respect for authority and are submissive to superiors.

-In a boys’ summer camp, they assigned friends to different cabins and then had the cabin groups compete in sports. In just a few days there were strong in-groups forming. Even lifelong friends began to taunt one other with names like crybaby or sissy.

-Prejudice is functional as it brings people together- How it creates in-group solidarity

-Can create negative stereotypes (dysfunction) and destroys human relationships

Analyzes how groups are pitted against one another, but they focus on how this arrangement benefits those with power.

     Prejudice is beneficial to the dominant group as it keeps minority groups oppressed