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