Identity & diversity

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Identity & diversity

You secretly enjoy reading your horoscope, but you tend to only believe the positive predictions. This is called the confirmation ...

1. prejudice
2. bias
3. discrimination
4. stereotype

When a 55-year-old person is not considered suitable for a job because of their age, this is age ...

1. prejudice
2. bias
3. discrimination
4. stereotype

The assumption that only homosexual men catch HIV is an unfair ...

1. prejudice
2. bias
3. discrimination
4. stereotype

Each Friday evening, we eat fries from our local fries shop. That's part of our ...

1. race
2. culture
3. ethnicity
4. religion

A lot of metropolitan cities have a Little Italy or a Little China, which are ... enclaves populated mainly by Italians or Chinese people.

1. racial
2. cultural
3. religious
4. ethnic

People are often categorized based on their shared physical characteristics such as skin colour. Asian and white people belong to a different ...

1. race
2. culture
3. ethnicity
4. religion

neurodiversity

neurodivergent

stereotypes about
Belgium / Belgians

What is diversity?

draw a picture

prejudice

equity

bias

culture

stereotype

neurodivergence

• supporting or opposing something in an unfair way (influenced by personal opinion)
•  when everyone is treated fairly according to their needs
• the general customs and beliefs of a particular group of people
•  including people with different types of brains
• a set idea that people have about someone or something (often wrong)
• unfair and unreasonable opinion (formed without enough knowledge)

discuss

• In what ways is your class, school, ... diverse?
  
• "Differences are more valuable than similarities." Do you agree?
  
• In which situations might diversity be useful or even necessary?
  
• Do you think there is enough diversity in books, music, on TV, ...?