Racism is the classification of groups of individuals based on physical characteristics, such as skin color, eye shape, and hair texture, and inappropriately ascribing intellectual, physical, and psychological traits to them.

• A. Racism
• B. Gender
• C. Transgender
• D. Ethnic identity

Answer: (A)

Racism involves classifying people by race and then wrongly attributing intellectual, physical, or psychological traits to those groups based on that classification. The statement describes judging individuals by physical features such as skin color and hair texture and then ascribing traits to them because of race, which is the essence of racist thinking and discrimination. This is about biased generalizations tied to race, not about gender or transgender identities, and not about cultural affiliation itself, which would be ethnic identity.