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| one among several culturally distinct groups in a society or religion |
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| identification with an ethnic group |
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| any position that determines where someone fits in society |
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| social status based on little or no choice |
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| social status based on choices or accomplishments |
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| ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis |
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| discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis |
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| social identity based on ancestry |
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| children assigned to the same group as their minority parent |
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| class-structured, with differences in wealth, prestige, and power |
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| expressed physical characteristics of an organism |
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| society sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship |
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| stratified society with formal, central government |
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| an autonomous political entity; a country |
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| absorption of minorities within a dominant culture |
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| ethnic groups that have, once had, or want their own country |
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| long-term foreign domination of a territory and its people |
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| society with economically interdependent ethnic groups |
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| view of cultural diversity as valuable and worth maintaining |
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| devaluing a group beacuse of its assumed attributes |
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| fixed ideas - othen unfavorable - about what members of a group are like |
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| policies and practices that harm a group and its members |
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| people who flee a country to escape persecution or war |
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| deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder |
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| destruction of cultures of certain ethnic groups |
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| internal domination by one group and its culture or ideology over others |
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