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| category of people who share a genetic or biological heritage |
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| category of people who share a cultural heritage as demonstrated by distinct cultural characteristics |
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| social group that is singled out for differential treatment or discrimination due to physical or cultural characteristics |
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| social group who has traditionally experienced most of the access to resources and whose actions are harmful to minority |
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| process in which minorities experience socially supported mistreatment |
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| oversimplified generalizations about the characteristics of a social group |
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| tendency to judge other cultures based on standards of their own |
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| belief that European culture is better than others |
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| belief that African culture is better than others |
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| negative attitude held towards individuals of a social group |
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| prejudice is learned through observation and modeling, and reenacted by children |
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| belief system or ideology used to justify the superiority of one race over another based on physical characteristics |
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| more overt, or "out in the open" |
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| more covert, or "hidden or subtle" |
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| belief that certain groups are superior to others face-to-face |
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| superiority of certain groups over others which is promoted by day-to-day practices |
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| actions, behaviors or differential treatment that accompanies prejudice and racism |
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| individual discrimination |
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| face-to-face discrimination between members of minority and majority |
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| institutional discrimination |
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| when day-to-day practices promote differential treatment |
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| systematic killing of a race or nation of people |
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| forced migration of minority group by a majority group |
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| physical or spatial separation of social groups due to race of ethnicity |
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| segregation enforced by law |
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| social groups take it upon themselves to separate from others |
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| process in which the minority culture is incorporated or absorbed into the dominant culture |
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| minority groups incorporates the culture elements of majority group or cultural assimilation |
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| blending of two different cultures into one new single culture or biological assimilation |
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| state in which different cultures peacefully coexist, maintain their distinct identify, and a sense of respect is fostered for differences between groups |
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| process in which different culture groups freely interact through social activities and within social institutions or structural assimilation |
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