Which of the Following Is an Example of Ethnocentrism

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of ethnocentrism?

• A) Each year, the town of Neu Braunfels, Texas, which was a historic destination for German immigrants to America, hosts Wurstfest, a celebration of German and German-Texan heritage. People of all ethnic backgrounds are invited to enjoy traditions such as eating wurst (various meats), drinking beer, and folk dancing.
• B) It is "Spirit Week" at Roosevelt High School, and the different grades of students compete against each other every day to demonstrate who has the most enthusiasm for school. They do things like wear the school colors on Monday, bring canned goods for the food pantry on Tuesday, wear their hair in wacky ways on Wednesday, etc. At the school assembly on Friday, cheerleaders for each grade lead students from their grade in a cheer mocking the other classes and arguing for why they are the best class.
• C) Linda and Carla, two elderly African American sisters, go on a cross-country trip together to see sites important to African American history, including the National Peace and Justice Museum (sometimes called the Lynching Museum), the Lorraine Hotel (where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated), and the high school at the center of the national desegregation court case Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Together, they learn a lot about African American history that connects them to their families, communities, and the larger struggle for civil rights.
• D) In the early 1990s, the city of Hialeah, Florida attempted to ban the slaughter of chickens for religious rituals, even though it permitted the slaughter of chicken for food consumption, because many of the residents felt that sanitaria, a religion popular among Caribbean immigrants, was an invalid religion. (In 1993, the Supreme Court ruled that a city could not prohibit a practice that was otherwise legal simply because it did not like the religion associated with that practice.)

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Definitions:

Phloem

The plant tissue responsible for carrying sugars and various metabolic substances from the leaves downwards.

Photosynthesis

The process by which green plants, algae, and some bacteria convert light energy, usually from the sun, into chemical energy stored in glucose, with oxygen as a by-product.

Sucrose

A disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose, commonly known as table sugar, used as a sweetener in foods and beverages.

Sieve Tube Elements

Specialized cells in the phloem of vascular plants that are responsible for transporting sugars and other metabolic products downwards from the leaves.