Patterns of Discrimination

ensure minorities are protected with Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act

Designed to correct past imbalances

"Reverse Discrimination"

Policies that physically separate a minority group from the dominant group

De jure and de facto

European Jews were forced to live in walled-off communities

Maintaining control over a group through force, most extreme force is slavery

Example is apartheid, which came to a downfall in the mid 1990s

The blending of culturally distinct groups into a single group of people with a common culture

"Melting Pot"

Allows each group to keep its cultural identity

Switzerland has 3 national languages for each of its main ethnic groups

Most extreme pattern of intergroup relations

Goal is the destruction of a group, like a race. Also referred to as a genocide, for example the nazis and the holocaust

Ethnic cleansing: removing a group of people from a specific area through terror and mass murder

Sometimes the dominant group removes themself from a minority group by transferring the population to a different population

Indirect transfer- dominant group makes life so miserable for minority group they are forced to leave

direct transfer- relocating a group by force, also may involve expelling a group from a nation