Eth/125 Appendix a

Appendix A

ETH/125

Vanessa Lee

University of Phoenix

Part I

|Term |Definition |
|Diversity |Diversity has traditionally referred to categories like race and gender, but diversity |
| |experts are increasingly considering a wide range of factors from age and sexual |
| |preference to disabilities and even weight. |
|Ethnocentrism |The tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others. |
|Melting pot |Diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, a new cultural entity. |
|Minority group |A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own |
| |lives than do the members of a dominant or majority group. |
|Emigration |The act of leaving one’s homeland or country to settle in another. |
|Immigration |The act of coming to and settling in a new homeland or country from one’s original |
| |homeland or country. |
|Culture |Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, |
| |attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, |
| |concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of |
| |people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. |

Part II

1. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified?

There are several ways that groups of people are identified are by race, ethnicity, religion, and gender. Each group has a minority and though they each considered the minority, but in many areas the minorities are constitute the numerical majority. Racial groups are groups of people that are socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. People are identified by their religious belief. Religious groups are the third basis for minority group status. Another way people identified people in groups are by gender. Males are the social majority and females are relegated to the position of social minority. Women are thought of as a minority even though they do not have all the characteristics. Many cultural groups are identified because of the way they speak or because they do not speak the same way as other. People are also grouped by the looking different from others or because of what someone of the same race or origin has done.

2. Why do people label and group other people?

People label and grouped by other people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, and gender. Racial groups are labeled because of their skin color, hair color, height, and even weight. I do not believe that people should be labeled because of their skin tone, skin color, or their looks. People are also labeled or judge because of their family history or because of the acts of someone that looks like them are from the same religion. People may even label others because of who they married. When one race marries someone of a different race can cause people to place judgment on them among family members and others that do not believe in bi-racial marriage. Ethnic can be set apart from others because of their national origin or distinctive cultural patterns. Religious groups are labeled and grouped because others do not have the same beliefs or faith, and may worship a different Lord/God then they do.