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FundamentalsCh20
CCC [Fundamentals] Cultural Diversity (Ch 20)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An expectation that all people within the same racial, ethnic, or cultural group act like and share the same beliefs and attitudes | Stereotyping |
| A grouping of people based on biological similarities | Race |
| The belief that one’s own culture is superior to all others and results in oppression | Ethnocentrism |
| A form of oppression, discrimination directed toward individuals who are misperceived to be inferior due to biologic differences | Racism |
| Knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, habits, customs, languages, symbols, rituals, ceremonies, and practices that are unique to a particular group of people | Culture |
| Occurs when individuals from a minority group are absorbed by the dominant culture and take on the characteristics of the dominant culture | Cultural assimilation |
| Assuming the characteristics of the dominant culture, process of learning norms, beliefs, and behavioral expectations of a group | Acculturation |
| The only cultural group that eye contact is not considered to be rude | European Americans |
| The six organizing phenomena of culture | Communication, space, orientation to time, social organization, environmental control, and biologic variations. |