Centric Views Comparrison

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Would each descriptor best apply to Christian Americans only, Muslim and Arab Americans only, or to both groups? In organizing this information, you are conveying what you think most Americans perceive about these groups, so there are no “right” answers. In fact, your table categorizations may be markedly different from what you personally believe is true. Descriptors Good neighbors, family oriented, oppressive to women, not oppressive to women, women as homemakers, women who go to work, patriarchal society, modest dress, immodest dress, well educated, undereducated, religious content in education, secular content in education, devout, law abiding, conservative political values, moderate political values, governed by Biblical law, governed by the Qur’an, fanatically religious, religious values perpetuated in politics, religion part of government, male-dominated political environment, political environment open to both sexes, violent, peaceable, socially exclusionary, socially inclusive, socially oppressed, socially compliant, sexist, feminist, strict moral values, moderate moral values, flexible moral values Table |Christian Americans |Both Groups |Muslim and Arab Americans | | | | | |Not oppressive to women, immodest dress, |Good neighbors, family oriented, women as |Oppressive to women, secular, devout, | |moderate political values, political |homemakers, women who go to work, modest |governed by biblical law, governed by the | |environment open to both sexes, socially |dress, well educated, undereducated, |Qur’an, fanatically religious, religion in | |compliant, feminist |religious content in education, law |government, male-dominated political | | |abiding, conservative political values, |environment, violent, socially exclusionary,| | |religious values perpetuated in politics, |socially, oppressed, sexist, Secular | | |peaceable, strict moral values, moderate |education | | |moral values, flexible moral values, | | | |socially inclusive...