Race is based on biological characteristics which are socially defined.

A person who holds unfair attitudes about minority groups but does not discriminate is called a timid bigot.

A person who refuses to give someone a job due to their ethnicity is engaging in institutional racism.

Most Chinese immigrants in the U.S. today came from Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Many Irish Americans practice symbolic ethnicity by celebrating St. Patrick's Day with parades and parties.

The ethnic revival threatens to divide the United States along ethnic and racial lines.

Native Americans suffered separation, expulsion, and extermination.

Cubans are the largest group of Hispanics in the United States.

At one point in time, white ethnic groups suffered great discrimination in the United States.

One-third of African-American families are now middle class.

On average, Puerto Rican Americans have higher education and income levels than white Americans.

Native Americans of different tribal ancestry have adopted a consciousness of kind as the result of Americans' refusal to recognize diversity among tribes.

According to the Conflict theory, clashes sometimes errupt among minority groups who are competing for the same resources.

The history of African and Hispanic Americans supports the Functionalist argument that minority groups will move up in social status once they acquire the necessary skills.

According to the principle of cumulation, some minority groups suffer discrimination that keeps them in an inferior status. Then this status is used as proof that they do not deserve better treatment.