Exercise Answers
A. Choose the correct answer.
1. The unfair treatment of the Jewish people in Germany under Hitler is an example of:
a. Caste discrimination
b. Racial discrimination
c. Gender discrimination
d. Class distribution
Ans. b. Racial discrimination
2. This person fought for equal rights of African Americans in the USA:
a. Martin Luther King Jr.
b. Leon Trotsky
c. Issac Asimov
d. Dr. BR Ambedkar
Ans. a. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. This woman was an astronaut with a NASA.
a. Kalpana Chawla
b. Dipa Karmakar
c. Indra Nooyi
d. Kalpana Rakshit
Ans. a. Kalpana Chawla
4. Dr BR Ambedkar trained to become a:
a. doctor
b. engineer
c. lawyer
d. business person
Ans. c. lawyer
B. Fill in the blanks.
1. When we judge someone before knowing them, we are performing a _________.
Ans. Prejudice
2. When we choose only one or a few among the many characteristics of a person or a group, and form a generalized opinion about them, we create _________.
Ans. Stereotyping
3. When we say 'Women cannot play football, and boys cannot dance', we are practicing discrimination based on ________.
Ans. Gender
4. The word dalit means _______.
Ans. the oppressed
5. The Indian constitution abolished ___________ and declared it a punishable offence.
Ans. Untouchability
C. Mark the following as true or false.
1. Stereotypes are always correct.
Ans. False
2. The unequal treatment of people based on religion, gender, caste and economic condition is known as diversity.
Ans. False
3. Stereotypes lead to prejudices.
Ans. True
4. Female foeticide has lead to a situation where there are more women than men in many parts of India.
Ans. False
5. The preamble to the Indian constitution describes India as a constitutional monarchy.
Ans. False
D. Answer in one or two sentences.
1. What do you understand by the word 'prejudice'?
Ans. The word prejudice means to judge before knowing much about a person or a group.
2. Why did Hitler and the Nazis discriminate against the Jewish people?
Ans. In Germany, Adolf Hitler and his party - the Nazis - believed the Jewish people to be an inferior and impure race. This prejudice led to inhuman treatment of the entire race for years.
3. How were the African Americans treated in America?
Ans. For years the African Americans were stereotyped as backward in America. They were treated as inferior and were not afforded equal rights as citizens.
4. Who are the third gender? What step did the supreme court take to improve their condition?
Ans. People who do not belong to either the male or the female gender. They are people of the third gender, or transgender. In April 2014, the supreme court of India passed a landmark judgement that made it compulsory for the government to give members of the third gender equal opportunities, and made discrimination against them a criminal offence.
5. Who are the Dalits?
Ans. Dalits, meaning 'the oppressed' and are classified as scheduled castes by the Constitution of India.
6. What is a constitution?
Ans. A constitution is a written set of rules and laws that guides the functioning of a country.
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