Racial and Ethnic Minorities Are Often Portrayed in Visual Representations

question 2

Multiple Choice

Racial and ethnic minorities are often portrayed in visual representations as animalistic or subhuman, often as monkeys or chimpanzees. Why might racist imagery so often use animals?

• A) Representing someone as a primate is the worst possible insult for Europeans.
• B) Many minority cultures have cultural associations with monkeys.
• C) Racists are not really very imaginative, so they simply recycle the same stereotypes.
• D) Animal imagery supports the assumption that differences between groups are innate or biologically based.

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Neurotransmitters

Chemical substances that transmit signals across a synapse from one neuron to another, facilitating neuronal communication.

Axons

Long nerve fibers that are part of neurons, responsible for transmitting electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.

Action Potentials

Brief electrical impulses that are the means by which information is transmitted along neurons and across synapses.

Endorphins

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