ETHNIC STUDIES VOCABULARY Race a group of persons

ETHNIC STUDIES VOCABULARY

Race: ■ a group of persons related by common descent or heredity. ■ Social (? ) ■ Scientific (? )

Ethnicity: ■ an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like

Stereotyping: ■ an idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based upon how they look on the outside, which may be untrue or only partly true. ■ Stereotyping people is a type of prejudice because what is on the outside is a small part of who a person is.

Prejudice ■ an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason

Discrimination ■ distinguishing differences between things or treating someone as inferior based on their race, sex, national origin, age or other characteristics.

Racism: ■ Racism is a belief that one race is superior to the other or the practice of treating a person or group of people differently on the basis of their race.

Ethnocentrism ■ The belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture

Acculturation: ■ cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture

■ to become like others, or help another person to adapt to a new environment Assimilation:

Anti-Semitism: ■ hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

Xenophobia ■ fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

Nativism ■ a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. ■ 2 : the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation.