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| Bilingual Education | may instruct children in their native language |
| Bilingualism | is the use of two or more languages in places of work or educational facilities, according each language to be equal |
| Borderlands | refers to the area of a common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States |
| Brain Drain | immigration to the United States of skilled workers, professionals, and technician |
| Color Gradient | is the placement of people along a continuum from light to dark skin color rather than in distinct racial groupings by skin color |
| English Immersion | in which students are taught primarily in English, using their native languages only when they do not understand their lessons |
| Ethclass | which describes the merging of ethnicity and class in a persons status |
| Hometown Clubs | typically are nonprofit organizations that maintain close ties to immigrants hometowns in Mexico and other Latin American countries |
| Maquiladoras | foreign own companies on the Mexican side of the border of the United States |
| Marielitos | people who arrived from Cuba in the third wave of Cuban immigration. The term is generally reserved for refugees seen as especially undesirable |
| Panethnicity | is the development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups |
| Remittances | sbstantial flow of money |
| Ethnocentrism | The tendency to perceive and interpret from the standpoint of one’s own culture. In epidemiology the tendency is reflected in the practice of using the White population as the norm or standard |
| General Population | Everyone in the population being studied, irrespective of race or ethnicity. |
| Indigenous | is usually used to mean a person who belongs naturally to a place in the sense of long term family origins. This term is sometimes used to identify the majority population. |
| Racism/Institutional Racism | Institutional racism, whereby policies and traditions, sometimes unwittingly, favour a particular racial or ethnic group, may be less obvious but may disadvantage large populations |
| Racial Prejudice | Negative beliefs, perceptions, or attitudes towards one or more ethnic or racial groups. |
| Reference/Control/Comparison | This refers to the standard against which a population that is being studied can be compared with to permit an analysis of similarities and differences. |
| Minority Ethnic Group | Usually, but not always, this phrase is used to refer to a non-white population. Alternatively, it may be used to describe a specific identifiable group |
| Ethnicity | The social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a mix of cultural and other factors including language, diet, religion, ancestry, and physical features traditionally associated with race |
