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Minority Group
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People who are signaled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination
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Dominant Group
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Those who do the discriminating; they have the greater power, privileges and social status.
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Ethnic Work
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The way people construct their ethnicity.
People who have a strong ethnic identity: how they enhance and maintain their group's distinctions (clothes, food, language) People whose ethnic identity is not so firm: attempts to recover their ethnic heritage (trace family lines, visiting country or origin) |
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Melting Pot
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When most groups in a certain place (ex:U.S) quietly blend into a sort of ethnic strew. "Tossed Salad" is now a more appropriate term than melting pot.
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Discrimination
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Action: unfair treatment directed against someone can be based on: age, sex, height, weight, income, education, marital status, sexual orientation, disease, disability, religion and politics.
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Racism
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Wen the basis of discrimination is someone's perception of race
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PREJUDICE
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A prejudging of some sort, usually in a negative way.. Most prejudice is negative and involves prejudging a group as inferior.
Discrimination is a result of prejudice. Positive prejudice: exaggerates the virtues of a group, as when people think that a group (usually their own) is more capable than others. |
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Scapegoat
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often a racil, ethnic, or religious minority that they unfairly blame for their troubles, becomes a target on which they vent their frustrations. Gender and age also provide common bases for scapegoating.
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Compartmentalize
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To separate their acts from their sense of being good and moral people
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