In the United States, about 5–7% of the population falls into each 5-year age range starting with the youngest children (0–4 years old) and continuing through middle age (54–59 years old). About 18% of the population is over 60, including about 6% over 75.
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Sexual Orientation
experts on the subject typically agree that about 2–4% of the U.S. population identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual
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Education
About 85% of U.S. residents graduate from high school, but only about 28% graduate from college
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Income
The median family income in the United States is about $58,000, but the range is tremendous
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Geographic Dispersal
About half of the U.S. population lives in the country’s 39 largest cities. Another 30% or so live in towns with at least 2500 people. The remaining approximately 20% live in rural areas, defined as towns with fewer than 2500 people.
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Disabilities
About 19% of the U.S. population has a disability, with a roughly even split between those who describe their disability as “severe” and “nonsevere.”
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**intersectionality**
the way any one person’s unique combination of social and cultural categories intersect or overlap, especially as related to discrimination or unequal treatment.
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**culture**
a set of shared beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior within a group of people
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**worldview**
a comprehensive, culturally influenced way of approaching and understanding the world around you
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**dynamic sizing**
the ability to simultaneously know the norm for a group *and* recognize that the norm might not apply to every member of that group
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**Multiculturalism**
a psychological approach that highlights the importance and value of multiple cultural groups within a society
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**acculturation**
managing a life that involves the coexistence of more than one culture
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**Assimilation**
an acculturation strategy in which the person adopts the new culture and rejects the old culture
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**Separation**
an acculturation strategy in which the person retains the old culture and rejects the new culture
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**Marginalization**
an acculturation strategy in which the person rejects both the new culture and the old culture
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**Integration**
an acculturation strategy in which the person adopts both the new culture and the old culture
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**acculturative stress**
stress associated with the process of managing old and new cultures
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**Individualism**
a worldview that emphasizes the well-being of the individual over the well-being of the group
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**collectivism**
a worldview that emphasizes the well-being of the group over the well-being of the individual
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**Cultural intelligence**
your ability to live and interact effectively in a multicultural society
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**microaggressions**
everyday actions or comments that, often unintentionally, contain hostile or off-putting messages for members of certain cultures
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**gender**
your culture’s social, psychological, behavioral expectations related to maleness or femaleness
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**sex**
your biological maleness or femaleness
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**gender identity**
your internal sense of yourself as male or female
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**cisgender**
a person whose gender and sex match
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**transgender**
a person whose gender and sex do not match
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**transition**
choose to take steps to live as the gender that matches their identity rather than their biologically assigned gender
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**Sexual orientation**
a person’s pattern of romantic attraction to a particular group (or groups) of other people
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**heterosexual**
attracted to members of the other sex or gender
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**homosexual**
attracted to members of the same sex or gender
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**bisexual**
attracted to people of both the other and the same sex or gender.
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**LGBTQ**
a community of members of sexual minorities, including lesbian (L), gay (G), bisexual (B), transgender (T), queer/questioning (Q), and other people.
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