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| process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give up their original cultural language and identity and melt into another, usually larger, group |
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| prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitudes |
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| being able to negotiate two or more different cultures competently, individual and mainstream |
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| of or relating to culture |
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| all of the society transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thoughts by particular classes, communities, or populations |
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| physical actions involved in the unequal treatment of people because they belong to certain category, group, or race |
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| differing from one another; made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements |
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| fact or quality of being diverse, different (all of the ways in which human beings are both similar and different) |
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| designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, and common history; national origin |
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| ethnic affiliation or classification |
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| tendency toward viewing the norms and values of the individual’s own culture as absolute and using them as a standard against which all other cultures are measured |
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| chromosomal designation of female or male being |
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| irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality |
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| Mental and Physical Abilities |
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| capacity to perform cognitive and psychomotor tasks |
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| population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some gene or genes; any of the different varieties of humankind, distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily proportions, or other characteristics |
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| belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice toward races considered inferior |
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