Social Justice terms/human rights

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Ableism

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System of oppression including discrimination and prejudice towards people with disabilities. Examples: no ramp, only stairs

Question 2

Activists

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Someone who is fully committed to a cause and advocates for the group who is affected. Example Rosa parks

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Ally

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A member of the advantaged group who stands up against oppression and works to understand their own privilege.

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Anti-semitism

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Systematic oppression of people who are Jewish people, culture, and tradition. Ex: holocaust

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Apartheid

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A policy or system of segregation and discrimination on grounds of race.

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Apathy

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Absence of passion, emotion, and excitement.

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Assimilation

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Process that someone from one group acquires to match social and physical characteristics of a new group

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Bias

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Tendency to believe that someone and or ideas are better than others, often negatively

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Colonialism

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Control/governing of one nation onto another independent country.

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Cultural appropriation

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Taking over artistic forms of cultural groups without respecting the culture and using it as their own.

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Cynic

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Person who believe the worst in everything, whether that is a person or ideas of others.

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Democracy

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Government by the people, fair and free voting, letting the people decide

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Discriminate

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To single out specific people or groups based on characteristics like race, gender, sexual identity, etc.

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Diversity

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The inclusion of different races, cultures, traditions, and people.

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Ethnocentrism

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Judging a culture based on the beliefs of their own culture. Inherent superiority of one’s own culture over another.

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Equality

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Identical privileges, rights and status

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Identity

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Key facets of identity—like gender, social class, age, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity—play significant roles in determining how we understand and experience the world, as well as shaping the types of opportunities and challenges we face.

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Immigrate

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To come to a country in which one is not native

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Marginalization

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Excluded, ignored and regulated to the outer parts of society

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Microaggression

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social exchanges in which a member of a dominant culture says or does something, often accidentally, and without intended malice, that belittles and alienates a member of a marginalized group

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Nationalism

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he policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one’s own nation viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations.

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Oppression

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Authority used in a cruel way

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Power

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The ability to control others and to make things happen that for others it may be harder because of their status.

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Privilege

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A right, license, or exemption from duty or liability granted as a special benefit or favor.

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Prejudice

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Unfavourable opinion or any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.

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Racism

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The belief that ones race is superior than others based on how people look and the colour of their skin

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Ratify

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To conform by expressing consent or approval

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Refugee

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A person who flees from their country in refuge for safety in a time of war or political upheaval.

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Solidarity

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Union arising from common responsibilities between a member of a group.

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Sovereignty

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A nations supreme power within its borders

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Stereotypes

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Blanket beliefs and expectations about members from certain groups that present an oversimplified opinion attitude or judgement. Highly generalized

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Treaty

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Formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace and alliance in a written document.

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Xenophobia

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System of oppression based on fear hatred, or mistrust of that which is foreign and unfamiliar.

Question 34

List two points involving citing a source

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Finding when it was published, if the article or website is reliable or an opinion blog, author

Question 35

List 5 human rights, breathy explain.

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Right to education - everyone has the right to learn
No slavery - no one has the right to make someone a slave
No torture - no one has the right to hurting another person
Right to trial - everyone has a right to a fair trial
Right to play - the right to relax and rest

Question 36

Human Dignity

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the Catholic Church proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the person is the foundation of a moral vision for society. Our belief in the sanctity of human life and the inherent dignity of the human person is the foundation of all the principles of
our social teaching.

Question 37

Community and common good

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The Catholic Church says our tradition proclaims that the person is not only sacred but also social. How we organize our society – in
economics and politics, in law and policy – directly
affects human dignity and the capacity of individuals to
grow in community.

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Rights and responsibilities

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Catholic tradition teaches that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved
only if human rights are protected and responsibilities
are met. Therefore, every person has fundamental
right to life and a right to those things required for
human decency.

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Option for poor and vulnerable

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Catholic teaching proclaims that a basic moral test is how our most vulnerable members are faring.

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Participation

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All people have a right to participate in the economic,
political, and cultural life of society.

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Workers rights

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If the dignity of work is to be protected, then the
basic rights of workers must be respected – the right to
productive work, to decent and fair wages, to organize and
join unions, to private property and to economic initiative.

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Stewardship of creation

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We are
called to protect people and the planet, living our faith in
relationship with all of God’s creation.

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Solidarity CST

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Catholic social teaching proclaims that we are our
brothers’and sisters’keepers, wherever they live. We
are one human family, whatever our national, racial,
ethnic, economic, and ideological differences.

Question 44

When the wealthy (bourgeois) own all property and the means of production, a class struggle ensues
All the workers (proletariat) are enclaves through their wages

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Communism

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System where citizens have little or no say in the government because it is run by a single person with supreme, unlimited power

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Autocracy

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prioritizes human needs and eliminates the profit motive that drives war, ecological destruction and inequalities based on gender, race, nationality and sexuality

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Socialism

Question 47

In the video how did charity and social justice show?

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Charity: In the film, two instances of charity would have been the community fund where each family would save 12 dollars a month, and at the end of the month one of the families would get the $144. Another example of charity shown in the film would be when the four boys gave their radishes to the people they interviewed.
Social justice: The loan company Grameen provided the poor women with money to grow their wealth and they started businesses and gave these women a chance to be something.