Key themes

Question 1

identity

Answer 1

The fact of being who or what a person or thing is.

The word traces back to the Latin idem and identitas, meaning the quality of being identical.

Question 2

prejudice

Answer 2

Any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favourable or unfavourable but especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.

The word traces back to the Latin prae meaning in advance and judicium meaning judgement.

Question 3

outsider

Answer 3

A person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.

The word is linked to external, which traces back to the Latin exterus meaning on the outside, outward, outer, of another country, foreign.

Question 4

culture

Answer 4

The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.

The word traces back to the Latin cultura meaning which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture.