Chapter 10 - Human Diversity

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Assimilation

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Process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give up their original cultural language and identify and melt into another, usually larger, group

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Bias

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Prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitudes

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Biculturalism

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Being able to negotiate two or more different cultures competently, individual and mainstream

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Cultural

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Of or relating to culture

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Cultures

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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

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Discrimination

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Physical actions involved in the unequal treatment of people because they belong to certain category, group, or race

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Diverse

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Differing from one another; made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements

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Diversity

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Fact or quality of being diverse, different (all of the ways in which human beings are both similar and different)

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Ethnic

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Designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of a heterogenous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, and common history; national origin

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Ethnicity

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Ethnicity ethnic affiliation or classification

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Ethnocentrism

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Tendency toward viewing he norms and values of the individual's own culture as absolute and using them as a standard against which all other cultures are measured

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Gender

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Chromosomal designation of female or male being

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Homophobia

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Irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality

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Human

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People

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Mental and Physical Abilities

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Capacity to perform cognitive and psychomotor tasks

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Race

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Population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some gene or genes; of the different varieties of humankind , distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily proportions, or other characteristics

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Racism

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Belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice toward races considered inferior