Terminology and terms to increase your awareness of
diversity
- RACE
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- A category of people identified on the basis of similar visible physical
characteristics.
- CULTURE
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- The customs, ideas, skills, arts, etc of a given people in a given period
and /or location.
- ETHNIC GROUP
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- A group with which individuals are identified, or with which they identify
themselves, on the basis of cultural characteristics.
- MINORITY
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- A smaller part of a population differing from others in some
characteristics and often subjected to differential treatment.
- DISCRIMINATION
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- A showing of partiality or prejudice in treatment, specific action, or
policies directed against the welfare of minority groups.
- PREJUDICE
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- A judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known; Suspicion,
intolerance, irrational hatred, condemnation, or disapproval of other races,
creeds, cultures, etc.
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Taken from:
- Gualnik, David B. (Ed.)Webster's New World Dictionary of
the American Language. Simon and Schuster: New York. Schwartz, Marilyn.
Guidelines for Bias-free Writing. Indiana University Press:
Bloomington.
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