Shared culture, ancestry, nationality, or even religion
Minority group
People who are disadvantaged in some way by the dominant group
Ethnicity refers to descent through cultural backgrounds such as Irish, Italian American, Russian, Jewish, and Serbian
Subordinate group
A term that can be used interchangeably with the term "minority"
Dominant group
A term that is often substituted for the group that's in the majority
Stereotype
Generalizing about people and separately categorizing them
Prejudice
Beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group
Discrimination
Actions against a group of people
Race
A socially defined category based on physical differences between different groups of people
Discrimination
The unjust treatment of a category of people simply because they belong to that category
Prejudice
A preconceived opinion that isn't based on reason or experience
Social conflict theory
Focuses on the inequalities of gender, social class, education, race, and ethnicity
Culture of prejudice
The theory that prejudice is embedded in our culture
Genocide
The deliberate, targeted annihilation of a subordinate group
Segregation
The physical separation of two groups, particularly in residence, but also in workplace and social functions
Pluralism
The ideal of the United States as a "salad bowl" where a mixture of different cultures is accepted and tolerated with each culture retaining its own identity and being valued equally with mutual respect on the part of all cultures, both dominant and subordinate
Assimilation
The process by which a minority individual or group abandons its own identity to take on the characteristics of the dominant culture, perhaps by absorbing immigrants from different lands
The difference between the terms “Arab” and “Muslim” is that Arab refers to ________ and Muslim refers to ________.
