Definitions

1.Affluence = wealth
Abu Dhabi is an example of an affluent society.
The opposite of affluence is poverty.
2.Ethnicity = pure blood.
Your ethnicity is determined by factors such as race, religion, language.
3.Ability= skill.
He has the ability to get very high grades.
4. Diversity = the quality of being different.
This course is about cultural diversity, which means people of different cultures living and working together.
5.assimilation = absorption
a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
-(Cultural assimilation) , the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs
6.Demographics = population
are the most recent statistical characteristics of a population.
7.Religion = way of life
is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values
8.Race = Strain
people who are distinct genetically divergent populations within the same species with relatively small morphological and genetic differences
9.Multiculturalism
is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level
10.Personality
Personality is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual
11.Prejudice
is making a judgment or assumption about someone or something before having enough knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy
12.Acculturation
is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct
13.Bias
is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives
14.Discrimination
is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category.
 15.Fringe

In general, edges . . . as in fringe benefits, fringe of society, something on the border or edge of something else but not central to it.

16.population

 is all the organisms that both belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area

17.stereotype

 is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals

18.Gender

is a range of characteristics distinguishing between men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them

19.Resistance movement

a group trying to thwart foreign occupation

20.Advantage
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired End; bernefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
21.Racism
is the belief that there are inherent different traits in human racial groups which justify discrimination

22.Ethics

also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality — that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc

23.Productivity

 is a measure of the efficiency of production. Productivity is a ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it

24.Behavior or behaviour

refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment

25.Belief

is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.

26.majority

is a subset of a group consisting of more than half of its members

27.Income

is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.

28.Adverse or adverse interest

in law, is anything that functions contrary to a party's interest. This word should not be confused with averse

29.cultural value

is an absolute or relative ethical value, the assumption of which can be the basis for ethical action

30.tradition

is a ritual, belief or object passed down within a society, still maintained in the present, with origins in the past.

31.Generation

also known as procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring.

32.sensitivity

 or insensitivity of a human, often considered with regard to a particular kind of stimulus, is the strength of the feeling it results in, in comparison with the strength of the stimulus.

33.Slang

is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language but are considered more acceptable when used socially.

34.Ethnocentrism

is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own.

35.Stratification

is a concept of class, involving the "classification of persons into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions.

36.Cultural anthropology

is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.

37.Residency

is the act of establishing or maintaining a residence in a given place.

38.Poverty

is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.

39.Nationality
is membership of a nation or sovereign state, usually determined by their citizenship, but sometimes by ethnicity or place of residence, or based on their sense of national identity.
40.Minority
The age of a person before legal age or adulthood. In that sense see.
41.Social classes
are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society.
42.Globalization
refers to the increasing unification of the world's economic order through reduction of such barriers to international trade as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas.
43.Virtual
is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also, differing denotations.
44.Barriers or barricade
is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something.