With regard to Income, Occupation, Education, Housing, Life
span,Identification, stereotpye, Legal discrimination, Economics,
Culture-values, history-friendly-hostile, language,
Race/Gender/physically challenge/sexual preferency:

1.How are the aged people likely to view themselves or others?
2.How has the mass media--especially television and movies, and
textbooks--portrayed colored aged people?(Please review the history of
negative beliefs and stereotypes about these people, from slavery to
the present times)
3.Why and how are these stereoptypes changing?
4.How does the existence of a cultural and institutional core affect
the followiing dynamics of discrimination:
a) the identification of an ethnic subpopulation and,
b) the existence of prejudicial beliefs and stereotypyes about an
ethnic subpopulation?
5.How does learning about their (the-sub-population) heritage help
them to see themselves and others differently?
6.Is there a growing middle class of the above sub-populations in the
communities? Why or why not?

Thank you

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