native americans

• gender


  sexual identity as male or female
• genocide


  the act or attempt to systematically kill all members of an ethnic group or culture
• globalization


  the progressive emergence of a single worldwide economic system and the simultaneous reduction in global cultural and political differences
• affirmative action


  a program or policy intended to correct the effect of past discrimination in employment, education, housing, etc
• class


  a group of people thought of as a unit because they are similar in terms of social and/or economic factors
• colonial powers

  a term referring mostly to the western european nations that carved out colonies in africa, asia, central and south america, and the pacific during the 18th through the early 20th centuries
• cultural relativism


  judging and interpreting the behavior and beliefs of others in terms of their own cultural traditions and experiences
• discrimination


  the act of distinguishing differences between people and showing favoritism or prejudicial rejection of them
• diffusion

  the movement of cultural traits and ideas from one society or ethnic group to another
• enculturation


  the process of being socialized to a specific culture
• ethnic symbol


  selected traits used as a symbolic badges of identity to emphasize distinctness from other ethnic groups
• ethnocentrism


  the feeling that your own group's cultural traditionsand values are correct and superior to all others
• assimilation


  the absorption of an individual or minority group of people into another society or group
• boundry maintenance


  reinforcing an ethnic group's unity and distinctness by emphasizing the traits that set its members apart from others, rather than what they share in common with them
• ethnocide


  the act or attempt to systematically destroy a people's ethnicity or culture
• heterogeneous society


  a society consisting of many different ethnic and/or "racial" groups, social classes, languages and/or dialects, and cultural traditions
• hispanic


  referring to spanish and/or latin american cultural traditions
• multiculturalism


  a "salad bowl" model of society in which the permanent existence of unassimilated and partially assimilated ethnic/racial minorities is accepted and encouraged
• homogeneous society 


  a society that predominantly or entirely consists of people who share the same ethnicity/race, language, and cultural traditions
• ethnic group


  a category or group of people considered to be significantly different from others in terms of cultural and sometimes physical characteristics
• hypodecent


  the criterion for assigning individuals to specific "races" based on only a distant hereditary relationship
• large-scale society


  a society consisting of thousands to millions of people
• latino


  in contemporary american usage, this is a person of hispanic ethnic identity
• majority group


  an ethnic/racial group that has the largest population and usually the greatest economic and political power in a society
• caucasian


  of or related to the caucasus region, a geographic area between the black and caspian seas
• melting pot


  a society in which immigrants and native ethnic/racial minorities are assimilated into the dominant national culture
• manority group


  an ethnic/racial group that has a smaller population than the controlling majority group in a society
• prejudice


  the act of judging someone or some thing before the facts are known
• AIM (american indian movement)


  a native american civil rights organization
• alaska natives


  aboriginal peoples of alaska, including american indians, eskimo, and aluet peoples
• linguistic profiling


  the practice of making assumptions or value judgments about an individual based on the way/language they speak, and then discriminating against them bc of these factors
• american indians


  of or related to american indian
• eurocentrism


  the practice of using europe and european culture as a frame of reference or standard criteria from which to view the world
• inuit


  eskimo people who are distinct from american indians and are more closely related to peoples of east asia