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| The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life are superior to all others. |
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| Criminal offense committed because of the offender's bias against a race, religion, ethnic/national origin group, or sexual orientation group. |
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| A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial or ethnic minority. |
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| Ethnic or racial slurs, including derisive nicknames. |
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| A person or group blamed irrationally for another person's or group's problems or difficulties. |
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| Authoritarian Personality |
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| A psychological construct of a personality type likely to be prejudiced and to use others as scapegoats. |
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| Unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. |
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| Any arbitrary police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or natural origin rather than a person's behavior. |
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| Use of race-neutral principles to defend the racially unequal status quo. |
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| Tendency to approach or withdraw from a racial group. |
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| Technique used to measure social distance toward different racial and ethnic groups. |
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| An interactionist perspective stating that inter-group contact between people of equal status in noncompetitive circumstances will reduce prejudice. |
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