Social practices which attribute merits or allocate values to members of racially categorized groups solely because of race are ______.

A) ethnicity
B) race
C) racism
D) discrimination

Racially Categorized Groups

Collections of people distinguished by physical or genetic traits, often subjected to social segregations and differing social treatments based on these categorizations.

Social Practices

The routines, habits, traditions, and norms that characterize the everyday activities within a particular culture or society.

Racism

Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.