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HuG Unit 3

Culture - Ethnicity

TermDefinition
Adaptive Strategy A behavior, strategy, or technique for obtaining food and surviving in a particular environment.
Barrio Spanish word for neighborhood.
Caste System A Hindu social class system that controlled every aspect of daily life.
Cultural Adaptation Activities that facilitate the process of cultural assimilation.
Cultural Shatter-belt Areas where boundaries have been continually redrawn due to conflict between cultures.
Dowry Death Disputes over the price to be paid in dowry to the groom’s family, has sometimes result in the death of the bride.
Disenfranchisement The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.
Enfranchisement Privileges granted to a citizen and especially the right of suffrage (vote).
Ethnic Cleansing The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region either by forced migration or genocide.
Ethnic Conflict A disagreement between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism.
Ethnic Enclave A neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area.
Ethnic Group A category or group of people considered to be significantly different from others in terms of cultural (dialect, religion, traditions, etc.) and sometimes physical characteristics (skin color, body shape, etc.).
Ethnic Homeland Place or area that people with a particular racial, cultural or physically homogeneous characteristics considers their place of origin.
Ethnic Landscape The presence of ethnic influences in the cultural landscape is revealed via signatures of the ethnic groups. These ethnic signatures range from the styles of vernacular architecture to naming of places in the area, such as streets and towns.
Ethnic Neighborhood A world apart within a major city like Chinatown.
Ethnicity Refers to a group of people who share a common identity.
Ethnocentrism The tendency to evaluate other cultures against the standards of one’s own culture.
French Creole Incorporates continental French with American's dialects sounds and vocabulary.
Gender Gap Inequities between men and women in political and social freedoms, allocation of resources such as education, healthcare, food and bank credit.
Gendercide The reduction of the proportion of a particular gender, typically female, in a population, especially as a result of selective abortion.
Ghetto Forced or voluntary segregated residential area housing a racial, ethnic or religious minority, a segregated ethnic area within a city.
Infanticide The killing of children, extreme threat of starvation has at times forced on some societies, such as the Inuit of the North American Arctic.
Longevity Gap The difference between the average lifespan of men and women.
Maternal Mortality Rate The rate of deaths of women in relation to a pregnancy.
Plural Society A society combining ethnic contrasts.
Race A characterization of humans based on skin color or physical characteristics.
Segregation A measure of the degree to which members of a minority group are not uniformly distributed among the total population.
Social Distance Describes the perceptual distance between different groups of society. The notion includes all differences such as social class, race/ethnicity or sexuality, but also the fact that the different groups do not mix.
Aboriginals The people that are indigenous or native to a land.
Bluegrass Came from white music in the South and Appalachia, building on Irish and Scottish instruments and traditions.
Apartheid A policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against a non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa
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