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| Assimilation | The blending of culturally distinct groups into a single group with a common culture and identity |
| Cultural Pluralism | A policy that allows each group within a society to keep its unique cultural identity |
| Discrimination | The denial of equal treatment to individuals based on their group membership |
| Ethnic Cleansing | The practice of removing a group from a particular area through terror, expulsion, and mass murder |
| Ethnicity | A set of cultural characteristics that distinguishes one group from another |
| Minority Group | A group of people who, because of their physical characteristics or cultural practices, are singled out and treated unequally |
| Prejudice | An unsupported generalization about a category of people |
| Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | A prediction that results in behavior that in turn makes the prediction true |
| Stereotype | An oversimplified, exaggerated, or unfavorable generalization about a group of people |
| Subjugation | Maintaining control over a group through force |
| Genocide | the destruction of a national, racial, ethnic, or religiioius group |
| institutionalized discrimination | Pushing some minority groups into less-powerful positions because of unequal access to resources is called |
| Segregation | the physical separation of minority and dominant groups by policies |
| dominant group | group that possesses the ability to discriminate by virtue of its greater power, privilege, and social status |
| minority group | group that is singled out and treated unequally because of their physical characteristics or cultural practices |
