Attitudes between different racial groups about each other

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Answer the following:

1. Study the graphs of the racial intergroup attitudes in order to be able to answer a question (just an example) like, “What can you say about attitudes between different racial groups about each other?”

2. Be able to talk about the ways society attempts to reduce prejudice (including the contact hypothesis to combat social distance).

3. Be able to explain relative versus absolute versus total discrimination.

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