Chapter+11

Prejudice: A rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people. ex.) "I'm gonna teach him real chess, not the Colombian version. We actually use the pieces to play the game, not smuggle stuff out of the country," this is a quote from Jay, talking about how Colombians smuggle stuff out of United States. It is prejudice because he is saying an unfair generalization about all Colombians.

Minority: Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates. ex.) In the show Gloria, Manny, and Lily would all be considered minorities because they all have a different cultural difference than the rest of the family. Gloria and Manny have a cultural difference because they share the culture from Colombia, and Lily has a cultural background of Vietnamese.

Scapegoat: A person or category of people, typically with little power, whom other people unfairly blame for their own troubles. ex. ) In one episode Cameron and Mitchel are at a woman's house, which they want to impress because she is the owner of a new hip resturant, while at the her house they over hear her on the phone talking and threatening a person, and they get scared. She then comes back and ask them if they can watch her son so she can go do something quick and they agree thinking it will get them brownie points, but while they are watching her son, they realized Lily's grape juice had leaked on the woman's expensive white rug. So after some quick thinking they decide to use the lady's son as a scapegoat, by telling the woman her son had spilt the juice on the rug.

Discrimination: Unequal treatment of various catergories of people. ex.) Mitchell and Cameron always feel like they get the blame first because they are a gay couple. One day at the park they were told by a woman that their daughter bit her son. They started to blame another kid, but later found out that Lily actually bit the little boy.

Racism: The belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another. ex.) Phil was trying not to be racist, but the family went to a camp and their groups were certain colors. On Phil's shirt it said "If you ain't white, you ain't right" and it was talking about his group at the camp being the white color. The thing that made it seem like he was a racist was that the taxi cab driver was African American and he threw their luggage on their lawn.

Ethnicity: A shared cultural heritage. ex.) Manny and Gloria share the same cultural heritage from being Colombian.