XX. Complete each space in the text with an appropriate word from the box.

Bigotry sources higher supremacist neighbors accurate

harassment fueling minority ethnoviolent data violence

responsible alienated files hate ethnoviolence issue

loyalty numbers frightening prejudice

Nobody knows exactly how many crimes motivated by bigotry are committed because there is no ………..system of national ……….collection. We know from research at the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, however, that the problem is persistent, pervasive, and serious. Thousands of ……….incidents occur each year. In addition to the Institute’s………., a number of other ……….confirm the seriousness of this matter.

Campus ……….has received considerable attention during the last two years. In our study of violence on the University of Maryland’s Baltimore County campus, we learned that one out of five ……….students had been the victim of some form of ……….during the academic year. Based on accounts in the print media alone, the Institute recorded the occurrence of ………..at 155 different institutions of ……….education between September, 1986, and May, 1988.

In addition, the white ………..groups are alive and well. Though small in………., they have been ………..for a spate of violent crimes in recent years. Perhaps even more ………..are the youth groups which have sprung up. The Aryan Youth Movement and various Skinhead factions have been recruiting ……….teens and young adults, capturing their ……….playing on their fears, and ……….their anger until it erupts into violence, sometimes murder. However, too much attention to ………..groups diverts us from the most serious……….: most perpetrators of crimes of prejudice are unaffiliated with hate groups. They are our ……….and our neighbors’ children.

Joan C. Weiss