- How are stereotypes specific to race/gender? Have you heard similar examples from your family or friends, or from the media? What other social categories (e.g., sexual orientation, religion) might influence stereotypes? Explain, using an example to illustrate your point. - Consider the role that social context plays in shaping stereotypes. For example, how World War II negatively affected stereotypes about the Japanese. What other group stereotypes have changed over time-positively or negatively-due to significant social change? - Were enslaved people acculturated? Were they integrated? Under what conditions? How do acculturation and integration relate to Blauner's distinction between immigrant and colonized minorities?.