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| Totality of beliefs, understanding, practices and ways of interpreting experiences. |
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| Using one's own culture to judge the merit or rightness or naturalness of other cultures. |
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| Social communities or Speech communities are... |
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| Groups of people who live within a dominant culture yet also are members of another group or groups that are not dominant in a particular society. |
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| Constructive Competition is... |
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| When competition produces a positive, enjoyable experience and generates increased efforts to achieve without jeopardizing positive interpersonal relationships and personal well-being. |
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The transactional process of creating and sharing meaning.
All ways, constant and dynamic, and sending and recieving are constant and simultaneous. |
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| the anatomical and biological factors that differentiate females from males. |
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| Socially constructed meaning for the roles males and females perform, for masculinity and femininity. |
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| The performing of a gender with feminine and masculine traits, attitudes, perceptions and communication patterns |
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| Sexual preference or Sexual Orientation is... |
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| Determined by who one is attracted to or with whom one has sexual relations. |
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| Person who is attracted to same sex partners. |
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| Attracted to opposite gender partners. |
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| Attracted to both males and females. |
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| People who dress and act as the opposite gender but do not seek to permanently identify as one or the other. |
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| Hermaphrodites or Intersexuals are... |
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| Persons who are born with both genders genitalia or partial amounts of both. |
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| Biologically male or female but identify psychologically with the other sex sometimes altering their biological sex through medical procedures in order to match how they see themselves. |
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| Persons who profess no sexual attraction. |
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| Individuals see sexual attraction as possible with any partner. |
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| Heterosexual males who are more concerned with their appearance than typical stereotypically straight men. |
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| Term used to identify heterosexuals, usually males, who seem to hate or fear homosexuals so much so that they verbally degrade them, exclude them, refuse to work with them, or be on sports teams, to eat with them, etc... |
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