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Human Development Index (HDI)- A measure of economic and social well-being on a scale of 0-1. HDI factors include life expectancy, education levels and average income

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-The value of all goods and services produced within a country in one year

Population Rise-the birth year minus the death rate

Literacy rate percentage of people who can read and write

Life expectancy- the age of which a newborn infant can expect to live





Lesson 1

Minority- a group of people, who because of physical or cultural traits are differentiated from the dominant group in society and treated unequally.

List the 5 characteristics of a minority

  1. Distinct physical or cultural characteristics 

  2. Minority Dominated by Majority- The best jobs are harder to get because of lack of education or unfair family practices

  3. Common sense of identity and strong group loyalty

  4. Minority Dominated by Majority- majority may justify job discrimination by depicting the minority as lazy

  5. Membership in the minority group is an ascribed status applied  @ birth. 

Race-People sharing certain inherited physical characteristics .

Ethnic minority-Groups identified by cultural, national, or religious characterisitcs

Know the difference between race and ethnic minority

Ethnocentrism-Judging others in terms to one’s own group



Lesson 2

Assimilation- blending or fusing of a minority group into dominant society

Acculturation- culture is passed on to a new generation

Cultural pluralism-The desire of a group to maintain some sense of identity separate from the dominant group

Accommodation- A choice by a minority group to maintain its own cultural unique way of lids independent of the dominant (Amish in PA)

Melting pot vs Salad bowl theory- Melting pot is all ethnic and racial minorites voluntarily blend together, but the salad bowl is different traditions and cultures exists side by side

Subjugation- The process by which by a minority group is denied equal access to the benefits of a society

De jure segregation- the denial of equal access based on the law

De facto segregation- the denial of equal acess based on common prejudice 

Population transfer- 16,000 Cherokee were forced to march from the south east of the United States to Oklahoma (4,000 died).

Genocide- the systemic effort to destroy an entire population. 



Lesson 3

Know the difference between the following terms:

Bias- negative or positive preconceptions

hate crime-criminal act motivated by extreme prejudice

Prejudice-closely held negative attitudes towards a group and its individual memebers

self-fulfilling prophecy-an expectation that leads to behavior that causes the expectation to become reality

Racism-an extreme form of prejudice that assumes the superiority of one racial group over others 

Discrimination- unfair treatment of a minority group by the dominant group

Stereotyping- labeling of a group based on distorted, exaggerated, or over simplified ideas of that group



Lesson 4: 

Native Americans- population transfer- force onto reservations, made $ in casino businesses 

Latinos- Mexico, Central America, South America, and Caribbean islands, fastest growing minority group

African-Americans- Fought for equal rights in the 1960s.

Asian Americans- Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos largest, most successful in regards to educations

Institutionalized discrimination- unfair practices due to structure of society

Hidden employment- part time or self-employed but want to be full time

Under class- poor for generations

What countries make up these groups backgrounds? Largest growing group? Civil Rights 1960s