diversity

Assimilation

Process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give up their original cultural language and identity and melt into another, usually larger, group.

Bias

Prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitudes.

Biculturalism

Being able to negotiate two or more different cultures competently, individual and mainstream.

Cultural

Of or relating to culture.

Cultures

All of the socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thoughts by particular classes, communities, or populations.

Discrimination

Actions involved in the unequal or prejudicial treatment of people because they belong to a certain category, group, or race. May also include disability, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Diverse

Differing from one another; made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements.

Diversity

Fact or quality of being diverse, different (all of the ways in which human beings are both similar and different).

Ethnic

Designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, and common history; national origin.

Ethnicity

Ethnic affiliation or classification.

Ethnocentrism

Tendency toward viewing the norms and values of the individual’s own culture as absolute and using them as a standard against which all other cultures are measured.

Gender

Chromosomal designation of female or male being.

Homophobia

Irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality.

LGBTQ+

An acronym used to describe individuals who identify as other than heterosexual, i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer and/or questioning, intersex, and asexual and/or ally, plus others.

Mental and Physical Abilities

Capacity to perform cognitive and psychomotor tasks.

Race

Population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some gene or genes; any of the different varieties of humankind, distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily proportions, or other characteristics.

Racism

Belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice toward races considered inferior.

Religion

Belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers, to be obeyed and worshipped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe.