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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bias | Prejudice |
| Collectivism | An emphasis on group work and accomplishments |
| Connotation | Associated |
| Cultural sensitivity | The willingness to adjust your opinions and behaviors so that you value people and ideas form other cultures |
| Culture | The customs, habits and traditions of a particular group of people |
| Diversity | All the ways in which people differ |
| Ethnocentrism | The belief that your own culture is naturally better than other cultures |
| Globalization | The rapid and unimpeded flow of capital, labor, and ideas across national borders |
| ignorance | lack of knowledge or information |
| individualism | An emphasis on independent work and accomplishments |
| Nonverbal communication | communication that uses body language instead of person to meet specific needs or wants |
| Prejudice | Opinion or judgment that is based on feeling or hearsay, rather than fact; bias |
| Primary dimensions of diversity | inborn differences that cannot be charged and affect a persons life; include such characteristics as age, race/ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and certain physical and mental traits and abilities |
| Secondary dimensions of diversity | Differences that may change at various points throughout ones lifetime; include such characteristics as language, religion, points throughtout ones lifetime include such characteristics as language, religion, income, geographic location, family statu |
| Stereotype | A set image or an assumption about a person or thing |
| Subculture | A set secondary group within a dominant culture |
| Valuing diversity | Openly acknowledging differences and believing that they are assests instead of pro |