1. Compare how the theme of racial discrimination has been developed in the texts we have read. (Texts from
Reunion and If This Is a Man).
2. What does the word racism mean?
3. What’s the difference between race and ethnic group?
4. Show the differences between the aims of Gobineau’s and Darwin’s theories.
5. Talk about the persecution of Jews during Hitler’s and Mussolini’s dictatorships.
6. Up to the modern science, which are the main morphological differences between men?
7. Talking about the mix of different people, what did genetic studies show?
8. What a criterion has been used to make a difference between different ethnic groups?
9. Compare the articles of Italian Constitution and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What can you see the
respect of human dignity in?
10. Why do we still talk about the problem of racial discrimination today? What are the ways to face it?
11. Does it still make sense talking about race? Why?
12. Primo Levi invites us not to forget atrocities of Nazism to avoid their repetition. Do you agree with
him?
Chose the right answer
13. To protect people from intolerance and discrimination we need:
a) clear and hard laws