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Flashcards by Camila Villarruel, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Camila Villarruel
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| Question | Answer |
| Diversity | Diversity: the inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin,color, religion, socioeconomic stratum, sexual orientation. |
| Pluralism | Pluralism: a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def. 2), monism (def. 1a). |
| Exclusion | Exclusion: a keeping apart; blocking of an entrance. |
| Assimilation | Assimilation: the conversion of absorbed food into the substance of the body |
| Stereotypes | Stereotypes: a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for makingmetal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like inpapier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a castin type metal. |
| Prejudice | Prejudice: an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or withoutknowledge, thought, or reason. |
| Hostile | Hostile: opposed in feeling, action, or character; antagonistic |
| Vandalism | Vandalism: the conduct or spirit characteristic of the Vandals. |
| Arson | Arson: the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in somestatutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collectinsurance. Physical violence: an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rightsor laws |
| Hunger | Hunger: the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food |
| Homelessness | Homelessness: the homeless, persons who lack permanent housing |
| Ghettos | Ghettos: a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabitedpredominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, oftenas a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships. |
| Apartheid | Apartheid: (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid former policy of segregatingand economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population. |
| Subculture | Subculture: a group having social, economic, ethnic, or other traits distinctiveenough to distinguish it from others within the same culture orsociety. |
| Protest Regime | Protest regime: a formal notarial certificate attesting the fact that a check, note, orbill of exchange has been presented for acceptance or payment andthat it has been refused |
| Segregation | Segregation: the state or condition of being segregated, set apart, separated, orrestricted to one group: Segregation on buses meant that the seats atthe front were reserved for white passengers. |
| Tyranny | Tyranny: a cruel or harsh act or proceeding; an arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical action. |
| Boycott | Boycott: to combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a meansof intimidation or coercion |
| Treason | Treason: the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or killits sovereign. |
| Revolution | Revolution: an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of anestablished government or political system by the people governed. |
| Reconciliation | Reconciliation: the state of being reconciled, as when someone becomes resigned to something not desired. |
| Church | Church: that part of the whole Christian body, or of a particular denomination, belonging to the same city, country, nation, etc. |
| Synagogue | Synagogue: a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction. |
| Mosque | Mosque: a Muslim temple or place of public worship. |
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