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Vocab
form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
2. Ethnicity- a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language
naturalization
or social practice
6. Privilege- a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages
of most
against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or
9. Racism-a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial
groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's
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own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group
andhomosexuality.
12. Ethnocentrism- Sociology. the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic
group or culture.
13. Cultural relativism- a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning
people
negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action,simultaneously drawing him
17. Dichotomy- division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups
19. Metaphor- something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else;
emblem; symbol.
20. Social Norms- Rules or guidelines that a society has deemed acceptable behavior
joints;muscle sense.
23. Acculturation- the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another
group.
Work cited
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/acculturation?s=t