Individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create unequal access to power, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups are referred to as:

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Rylee Randall

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19 June, 18:06

Individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create unequal access to power, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups are referred to as:

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Shawn Macias · Answer 1

Individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create unequal access to power, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups are referred to as: racism.

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Racism is a belief in differences related to race that would justify a certain racial group's oppression of another. Race, in anthropology, is a system of classification that has no biological basis. It merely uses physical characteristics to divide people into different groups. Racism is, therefore, the application of that perception and classification to create unequal access to power, resources, and opportunities. Even if it does not go to extremes, such as what happened in Germany during WWII, racism is an underdeveloped form of self-protection centered on finding a common enemy.