Anthropology Chapter 16: Ethnicity and Race – Flashcards
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Share beliefs, habits, values, customs, and norms because of their common background
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Ethnic Group
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Identification with and feeling apart of an ethnic group exclusive from certain other groups because of its affiliation
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Ethnicity
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Subordinate (Inferior power and less access than majority groups)
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Minority Groups
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When an ethnic group is assumed to have a biological basis
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Race
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Discrimination against such a group
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Racism
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Assigns social identity on basis of ancestry
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Descent
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Division of American society into groups that have been unequal in their access to wealth, power and prestige.
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Hypodescent
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Refer to an autonomous political entity, a country-like the United States
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Nation-State
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Ethnic groups that once had, or wish to have or regain, autonomous political status
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Nationalities
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Describes the process of change that a minority ethnic group may experience when it moves to a country where another culture dominates.
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Assimilation
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Society combining ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization and the economic interdependence of those groups
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Plural Society
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The view of cultural diversity in a country as something good and desirable
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Multiculturalism
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Devaluing a group because of its assumed behavior, values, capabilities and attributes
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Prejudice
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Are fixed ideas often unfavorable about what the members of a group are like
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Stereotypes
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Policies and practices that harm a group and its members
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Discrimination
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A deliberate elimination of a group
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Genocide
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A dominant group that tries to destroy the cultures of certain ethnic groups or force them to adopt the dominant culture
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Ethnocide
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People who have been forced or have chosen to to flee a country to escape persecution or war
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Refugees
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Internal domination by one group and its culture or ideology over others
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Cultural Colonialism
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Dark-Light
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Dark skinned people live in _____ sunlight environments, whereas light skinned people live in ______ sunlight environments
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German scientist who compared human skulls and believed Caucasians were most perfect
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J Blumenback
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Fought against concept of race alongside student, Ashley Montagu
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Franz Boas
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No race is modern idea. Anthropology only recognizes ethnicity and ethnic groups
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Does anthropology recognize race?
