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| Individuals who believe in the supremacy of their own ethnic group. |
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| The ability to recognize and appreciate the personal characteristics of others. |
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| The process of learning the beliefs and behaviors of a dominant culture and assuming some of the characteristics do occur. |
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| Absorption of a culturally distinct group into a dominant or prevailing culture. |
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| Differences based on cultural, ethnic, and racial factors. |
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| Classification of people based on physical or biological characteristics such as the color of skin, hair, and eyes; facial features; blood type and bone structures. |
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| Values, beliefs, attitudes, languages, symbols, rituals, behaviors, and customs unique to a particular groupof people and passed from one generation to the next. |
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| Classifaction of people based on national origin and/or culture. |
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| Theory in which different cultures are expected to live together in peaceful coexistance. |
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| Theory that expected immigrants to become Americanised linguistically and culturally. |
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| Areas of Cultural Diversity |
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- Family Organization
- Language
- Personal Space
- Touching
- Eye contact
- gestures
- health care beliefs
- spirituality
- religion
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| Care that provides for the well-being of the whole person and meets not only physical needs but also social, emotional and mental needs and cultural needs as well. |
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| 4 Basic Charateristics of Culture |
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- Culture is learned.
- Culture is shared.
- Culture is social in nature.
- Culture is dynamic and constantly changing.
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| The structure of the family who lives in the household and who is the decision making person of the family. |
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Consists of:
Mother, Father, and children. |
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Includes:
Nuclear family plus grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. |
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| Father or oldest male is the authority figure |
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| mother or oldest female is the authority figure. |
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| A strom feeling or belief about a person or subject that is formed without reviewing facts or information. |
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| Preference that inhabits impartial judgement. |
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| An assumption is made that everyone in a group is the same. |
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| The beliefs individuals have about themselves, their connections with others, and their relationship to a higher power. |
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| An organized system of belief in a superhuman or higher power. |
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| A person who does not believe in any deity. |
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| An individual who believes that the exsistance of God cannot be proved or disproved. |
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| Hand, head, and body movements |
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| How long we substain a look |
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| What we say, and how we say it. |
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| Facial expressions and body language |
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Personal Space
(territorial space) |
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| distance people require to feel comfortable while interacting with people. |
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