Multicultural Psychology

Paper instructions:
Warm-up Activity 4.1
Take this interactive quiz on prejudice to get a

baseline on your own awareness of prejudice and

stereotypes, Understanding Prejudice: Baseline Survey.

Do this before your readings and the rest of the

assignment.

Warm-up Activity 4.2
Ethnic slurs probably have been around since early

civilization and someone felt the need to insult another

person. Some slurs take a common everyday word and

redefine them to describe a specific group of individuals

in a negative manner. Take, for example, the word gay.

Its common meaning is to be happy, carefree, and

somewhat showy. Its cultural meaning evolved from a

variety of usages and appears in a modern day

dictionary in the 1930s as a pejorative prison slang

term meaning homosexual boy. Beginning in the 1960s

and the start of the Gay Rights movement in the United

States, the homosexual community embraced the term

as a description; today, it is the LGBT community’s

preferred term used to describe male homosexuals or

being homosexual. Southern hospitality is another term

that started as a negative ethnic slur; however, it has

evolved into a contemporary positive term. During the

U.S. Civil War, Union soldiers used the term

sarcastically to describe the less-than-friendly welcome

they received from Southern state citizens. Today,

however, the term is widely viewed as an altruistic

behavior in which people open their homes to

strangers.

Are you aware of the origin of some of the slang you

may use? To find out, visit the following website:

Common Ethnic Slurs

Assignment

Based on what you learned about your own feelings

toward prejudice, your readings in the text, and the

films you viewed, design an educational intervention to

defuse prejudice in your local high school. The

intervention could be delivered at a school assembly or

as a unit in a high school advisory program. Notice the

particular racial and ethnic tensions that exist in the

school you select, and then choose the appropriate

material. Prepare a package of material that you would

give to the school counselors for their implementation

of the intervention. The package should include:

A transcript for a 10-minute lecture (2-3 pages)
A short play or interactive game that would engage

the students to consider the impact of prejudice. (You

may adapt an already existing play or game to fit your

particular environment, or you may create your own.)
An annotated list of at least five resources that the

school counselor could use to deal with prejudice and

its impact at the school. The annotated list should

include the name and author of the resource, type of

resource (article, film, etc.), where to access it, and a

short description of the resource.
To make your lecture engaging, you may depart

from usual writing form and organization and choose to

use anecdotes, humor, or other speaking tools;

however, be sure, to cite your sources appropriately in

the print version of the lecture that you submit. Be sure

to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic

Integrity Policy.

 

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