Language of Multiculturalism Flashcards
What is culture
belief systems and value orientations that influence customs, norms, practices and social institutions.
Culture as an iceberg means?
You have things you can see at the top: behaviors, appearance, dress, habits and non observable things below like beliefs, perceptions, expectations, roles, values, learning styles.
What is Race?
Socially constructed rather than biologically determined. Race is the category others assign individuals on the basis of physical characteristics like skin color.
Ethnicity
The acceptance of group norms and practices of ones culture of origin. Sense of belonging.
Monocultural Ethnocentrism
Values of the majority culture are more important than those of other cultures. What is normal or valid
What themes are included in monocultural ethnocentrism?
Belief in superiority belief in the inferiority of others power to impose standards manifested in institutions the invisible veil
What is a marginalized group?
Any non-dominant group, target group, (implied) oppressed
What is the majority group
Dominant group, non target group, privileged. Implied oppressors.
What is acculturation?
The exchange of cultural features when different cultures interact. This is a NEUTRAL term that describes a natural process.
What is the psychological, somatic and social difficulty that may accompany the process of acculturation?
acculturation stress
Assimilation?
adoption of the dominant/majority culture and rejection of the marginalized culture.
What term best describes the following: individual racial/ethnic groups maintain their own cultural uniqueness while sharing common elements of the dominant culture
cultural pluralism
What are the 3 different types of racsim?
Individual
institutional
cultural
A person is deprived of human dignity or basic human rights and is powerless or feels powerless to do anything about it - Define
Opression
Describe the invisible veil
the unconscious assumption of cultural universality
