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Д. А. Крячков
UNIT II
5. Of all the “isms” that connote stereotyping or prejudice ___ a group of people, ageism may be 
the strangest
6. Racial prejudice is discrimination based ___ the color of ones skin.
7. 
Religion continues to play a central role ___ American life
8. Scientist say that the key ___ understanding and conquering HIV/AIDS stigma is to study both 
sides of the coin, the people who stigmatize and the ones who are being stigmatized. 
9. Some believe that religious people are more prone ___ racism than non-religious people.
10. Stereotypes can also be used to promote one group ___ the expense ___ another
11. Stereotypes can be basic or complex generalizations which people apply ___ individuals or 
groups based ___ their appearance, behaviour and beliefs.
12. The author admits that there are no easy answers ___ the question ___ why Hispanics con-
tinue to be the “underclass of American society,” but he does make the assumption that edu-
cation — that is “the lack ___ it” — has a role to play.
13. The capacity ___ mindless stereotyping and mindless revenge ___ anyone who looks vaguely 
like “the enemy” is a deeply entrenched tradition.
14. The court said the authorities should use all the means ___ their disposal, including cutting 
government funding, to fight any discrimination ___ schools.
15. The language we use to describe people can strongly influence ___ our behavior towards them.
16. The nature of love is so far ___ comprehension.
17. There has been growing recognition that corruption, including bribery, extortion and misap-
propriation, has a particularly insidious impact ___ developing nations
18. ___ some people private schools have a certain stigma attached ___ them, relating ___ criti-
cisms of elitism, and although this is something that is less ___ an issue these days, pockets of 
elitism do still exist within the private school system.
19. True, racism hasn’t been eliminated, but there has been change ___ the better.
20. Turning to adjust the camera, I discovered ___ my horror that I had forgotten to put film in 
the camera.
21. When Huntington singles out “the Muslim propensity ___ violent conflict,” scholars rarely re-
proach him openly ___ cultural bigotry. Instead they deride him for his “propensity ___ vio-
lent generalization.”
Ex. 33. 
a) In the following passage insert articles where necessary. Account for their use.
b) Reread the passage and comment on the author’s point of view.
In 18th- and 19th-century Britain, there was division between “respectable” society and those 
who lived in slums. People who lived in these slums were often described as more like animals 
than human beings.
“Proper” people of that era had both disgust and fascination for those who lived in these un-
touchable realms. They went slumming into poor neighborhoods, sort of poverty tourism that is 
equivalent of today’s reality TV or brawlers that appear on “Jerry Springer Show.”
Today we once again have sharp social divide between people who live in “respectable” meri-
tocracy and those who live beyond it. In one world almost everybody you meet has at least been 
to college, and people have very little contact with features that are sometimes a part of the other 
world: prison, meth, payday loans, a flowering of nonmarriage family forms. In one world, people 

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