Appendix a

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Appendix A

Part I

Define the following terms found in Week One and Week Two readings:

Term Definition

Diversity

the condition of being different or having differences

Ethnocentrism

a habitual disposition to judge foreign peoples or groups by the standards and practices of one's own culture or ethnic group

Melting pot

a place or situation where racial amalgamation and sociocultural assimilation are taking place

Minority group

a group characterized by a sense of separate identity and awareness of status apart from a usually larger group of which it forms or is held to form a part

Emigration

an act or instance of emigrating : departure from a place of abode, natural home, or country for life or residence elsewhere

Immigration

an act or instance of immigrating ; specifically : a going into a country for the purpose of permanent residence

Culture

the act of developing by education, discipline, social experience : the training or refining of the moral and intellectual faculties

Part II

Answer each question in 250 to 350 words:

1. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified?

Some of the most popular ways that people are identified is by their race, class, and ethnicity. I believe that race is the easiest due to the fact that it is the most obvious to a point. You can tell if someone is white, black, or Hispanic before you are close enough to talk to them. Race and ethnicity in some ways go together. An ethnic group is a group that has a distinct culture of its own. It tends to be a group that shares an ancestral heritage. Race is defined more by physical characteristics. Thus, a black Dominican and an African American would be of the same race, but not of the same ethnicity.

In general, people fall into four classes. The lower, working, middle, and the upper classes. The lines can begin to blur between these different classes and someone may identify with more than one class....