1 . List one stereotype that you have heard. Where did you hear this? Do you think it is a common stereotype in society? How might this stereotype be damaging to the group involved?

2. Do you think that your country experiences amalgamation, assimilation, or pluralism? Why?

3. Describe a situation where a minority group resists repression by the dominant group. Where did you see or hear about this situation? Do you think that the action(s) was successful?

4. Do you think that racism still exists in society? Why or why not?

5. Imagine if you had taken part in Jane Elliott’s exercise. How do you think it would have felt to be part of the “inferior” group? Should schools use exercises like this to teach children about discrimination?

This is a home work assignment:

•  To what degree does poor communication between men and women lead to a potential rape situation?
•  Should men take the responsibility of asking women if they want to continue rather than wait for her to say something or assume she is consenting?

•  Are some women socialized to say "no" but mean "yes"?

•  Why do you think the incidence of rape is so much higher in the U.S. than in Great Britain or Japan?

Here is the ready-to-answer question of Christian theology

January 27: Rigby, Speaking of God (chapter three on Incarnation)

Question: Drawing on Rigby's observations on pp. 86-90 (on Chalcedon), what difference does Jesus being fully divine and fully human make to how you live your everyday life as a person of faith? If you don't identify as Christian, how do you think the identify of Jesus should influence Christian choices?

      In her book Living by Fiction, Annie Dillard points out, along these lines, that most of what we have to say to one another is about "artifacts"-that is, specific things that have already been made by human beings that can be created, managed, examined, known, and mastered. 86  Dillard seems to include, in her understanding of artifacts, not only physical objects we make and use, or make and admire. She includes, also, the systems we develop that frame what is beyond our scope-perhaps the periodic table, the color wheel, or, even, a birdwatchers' guide. What is lacking in our world and our lives is not intriguing discussions of artifacts. What is lacking, she says, are those who are courageous enough to say something immediate about existence itself. "Who will interpret the raw universe?" she asks. "We have a shortage of metaphysicians." 87   This is a problem, Dillard thinks, because "if we confine our interpretive investigations to strictly bounded aspects of culture ... we miss learning what we most want to know."88