A white man places a rental property he owns on Craigslist to rent it out for the next year. He receives two very promising applications from individuals who both are college educated and hold well-paying jobs. He decides not to rent his house to the first applicant simply because he is Arab American and rents it to the second applicant, who is white. What is this scenario an example of?
a. racism
b. prejudice
c. antimiscegenation
d. discrimination
Answer: d. discrimination
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a. achieve accurate categorizations and generalizations about human beings. b. be able to understand individualistic action. c. relate its findings to as small a sample as possible. d. replicate the work of the natural sciences.
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a. Create discord within a group. b. Achieve unity in an interaction by resolving divergent dualisms. c. Annihilate one of the conflicting parties. d. Terminate sociation.