Chapter 10 Human Diversity

Question 1

Assimilation

Answer 1

Process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give up their original cultural language and identity and melt into another, usually larger, grew

Question 2

Bias Prejudice

Answer 2

Bias Prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitud

Question 3

Biculturalism

Answer 3

Being able to negotiate two or more different cultures competently, individual and mainstrea

Question 4

Cultural

Answer 4

Of or relating to culture

Question 5

Cultures

Answer 5

All of the socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and

Question 6

Discrimination Actions

Answer 6

involved in the unequal or prejudicial treatment of people because they belong to a certain category, group, or race. May also include disability, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Question 7

Diverse

Answer 7

Diverse from one another; made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements

Question 8

Ethnic

Answer 8

Designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, an

Question 9

Ethnicity

Answer 9

Ethnic affiliation or classification

Question 10

Ethnocentrism

Answer 10

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
Gender Chromosomal d

Question 11

Gender

Answer 11

Chromosomal designation of female or male being

Question 12

Homophobia

Answer 12

Irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality

Question 13

Race

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Racism

Answer 14

Belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice toward races considered inferior

Question 15

Religion

Answer 15

Belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers, to be obeyed and worshipped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the univers