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Chapter 10 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assimilation | Process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give up their original culture language and identity and melt into another, usually larger, group |
| Bias | Prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitudes |
| Biculturalism | Being able to negotiate two or more different cultures competently; individual and mainstream |
| Cultural | Of or relating to culture |
| Cultures | All of the socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thoughts by particular classes, communities, or populations |
| Discrimination | Actions involved in the unequal or prejudicial treatment of people because they belong to a certain category, group, or race. May also include disability, ethnicity, and sexual orientation |
| Diverse | Differing from one another; made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements |
| Diversity | Fact or quality of being diverse, different (all of the ways in which human beings are both similar and different) |
| Ethnic | Designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, and common history; national orgin |
| Ethnicity | Ethnic affiliation or classification |
| Ethnocentrism | Tendency toward viewing the norms and values of the individual's own culture as absolute and using them as a standard against which all other cultures are measured |
| Gender | Chromosomal designation of female or male being |
| Homophobia | Irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality |
| Mental and Physical Abilities | Capacity to perform cognitive and psychomotor tasks |
| Race | Population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some gene or genes; any of the different varieties of humankind, distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily proportions, or other characteristics |
| Racism | Belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice toward races considered inferior |
| Religion | Belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers, to be obeyed and worshipped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe |
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