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Appendix A

Part I

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

Term | Definition |

Diversity | Diversity is the inclusion of different types of people of different races or cultures in a group or organization. |

Ethnocentrism | Ethnocentrism is the tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others. |

Melting pot | Melting pot is diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, a new cultural entity. |

Minority group | Minority group is a subordinate group whose members has significantly less control or powers over their own lives than do the members of a dominant or majority group. |

Emigration | Emigration is when a person or group of people who leaves a country to settle in another. |

Immigration | Immigration is when a person or group of people who comes into a new country as a permanent resident. |

Culture | Culture is the behavior, beliefs, and characteristics of different social, ethnic, and age groups. |

Part II

Answer each question in 250 to 350 words:

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

Groups of people are identified in four groups’ race, religion, gender, and ethnicity. People who are identified by their race are looked at by the color of their skin, hair, and clothing. These things are looked at by society by ones physical appearance only. The ethnic group is a group of individual that are set apart because of origin and cultural. A person from another country will have different ways of doing things, and eat different foods, and should be able to express their own culture without experiencing prejudice or hostility. Religion is a group of people who worship different faiths other than the more dominant faith of Christianity. Most people of the dominate group often misunderstand and outcast other religions. Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Amish, Muslims, and Buddhists are examples of the...