Tolerance Vocabulary

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Antisemitism

Hostility towards Jews as an ethnic or religious group

Civil Rights

Personal and property rights guaranteed by the Constitution and by law

Discrimination

Action based on prejudice or racist beliefs that results in unfair treatment of individuals or groups; unjust conditions in areas such as employment, housing and education

Genocide

The deliberate and systematic attempted annihilation of a national, racial, ethnic or religious group of people

Hate Crime

A crime of violence, property damage or threat that is motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias based on the target's real or perceived 'race,' religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, disability or sexual orientation

The Holocaust

__________ took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Millions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis.

Prejudice

A preconceived attitude, opinion or feeling, usually negative, formed without adequate knowledge, thought or reason

Propaganda

The deliberate spreading of ideas or information, true or untrue, with the purpose of manipulating public opinion to gain support for one's cause or to discourage support for another

Racism

A set of beliefs based on perceived 'racial' superiority and inferiority; A system of domination that is played out in everyday interactions, and the unequal distribution of privilege, resources and power

Responsibility

the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something

Stereotype

A simplistic, firmly held belief, often negative, about individual characteristics generalized to all people within that group

Scapegoat

An individual or group unfairly blamed for problems not of their making

Tolerance

A fair and objective attitude toward those whose opinions and practices differ from one's own. The commitment to respect human dignity

Ghetto

Originally, a section of a European city in which all Jews were forced to live. Today, a section of a city inhabited primarily by a single minority group, to which the group is restricted socially or economically

Race

An old word that once referred to nationality, in the 18th century the term was imbued with the scientific theory that people are classified into biologically different groupings