Question

​Kanza and Ranna are classmates whose parents are both originally from Iran but who moved to the United States before the children were born. They are very good friends, spend a lot of time together at school, and often get together to socialize on weekends. One day a new student joins their class, and Kanza immediately sends a note to Ranna saying, “Look at that new white girl. I bet she isn’t going to want to play with us!” Kanza’s assumptions about the new classmate based strictly on her skin color demonstrate

a. ethnocentrism.
b. socialized paranoia.
c. discrimination.
d. prejudice.

Answer 1

Answer: d. Prejudice.

Explanation:

A prejudice is a pre-established conception about a person or a group, this conception is generally negative and is based on general (usually misleading) concepts about characteristics shared by the group; for example, the skin color of someone determines if it is friendly.

In this case, Kanza and Ranna have prejudices about people with fair skin and are judging their new classmate based only on the skin color that they have because they do not know their new partner.

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Answer 2

Prejudice

Further explanation:

Prejudice:

Prejudice is a factor which means we make a concept with the using of our own thoughts about any individual or group of individual.  

Reason of Prejudice Bias:

A bias is a tendency, a disposition or prejudice toward or against someone or something. The most common examples of unfair bias are based on stereotypes about another person’s race, religion, color, sexism, gender, classism, ageism, homophobia, etc.

Reason of Kanza and Ranna Prejudice:

In this question, Kanza and Ranna are also prejudicing a new classmate. They are only prejudicing to her new classmate by her color. Both are the friends has no idea what is the nature of their new classmate? May be she becomes a good friend both of. But without knowing they just are prejudicing their new classmate by her fair skin color and think she cannot play and study with them.

Answer details

Subject:  Social Studies

Difficulty level:  High School

Key words:

• Prejudice

• Reason of prejudice bias

• Reason of Kanza and Ranna Prejudice