Assimilation
The process by which a person or persons acquire the social
and psychological characteristics of a group.
Cultural assimilation
is the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to
resemble those of another group.
Depopulation
To remove or reduce the
population, by destruction or expulsion.
Acculturation
Is the process of cultural change and
psychological change that results, following meeting between cultures.
Japanese people
dressing in western clothing is an example of acculturation
Accommodation
A convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise.
A settlement between two
parties
Cultural Revitalization
The process of affirming and promoting people’s individual
and collective cultural identity.
An example of cultural
revitalization would be if the Natives of North America somehow got their land
back, and became a significant part of the population in the current North
America. They would go back to their original way of life (excluding the new
technology that has been created that would affect their daily life).
A theoretical example
of it having a negative effect would be if part of a culture that involved
killing people was brought back, such as cannibalism, or witch hunts.
Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the
values and standards of one's own culture. Ethnocentric individuals judge other
groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern
for language, behavior, customs, and religion.
1.A Westerner thinking
that using chopsticks at every meal to eat is strange, silly, or a
"stupid" way to eat
2.A person of a
different culture making jokes about the practice of eating certain foods in
another culture.
3.The belief that our
religion is better than somebody else's.
4.Criticizing systems
of living because they do not match ours.
5.Judging another
culture because women do not work outside the home.
6.Thinking another
culture is strange because they dress differently than you do.
Homogenization
Cultural homogenization is the homogenization of different
cultural practices into one blended, uniform cultural practices that do not
allow easy identification of the characteristics of many cultures. It means
over the years, peoples of two or more cultures have interacted and
intermingles in such a manner as to lose their individual cultural identities
and merged into a one uniform culture than does not show any trace of diversity
of different cultures among the people.
Cultures and languages
are dying because the people who used to practice them are using mainstream
languages such as English, and experiencing western culture.
Integration
The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups
into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization;
desegregation.
A current example
would be a family that has emigrated from Mexico to the US. They learn English,
get jobs and education, get assimilated into the society. Eventually they are
mainstream.
Marginalization
To put or keep someone in a powerless or unimportant
position within a society or group
When one class of
people is grouped together as second class citizens, this is an example of
marginalization.
Discrimination
Discrimination is action that denies social participation or
human rights to categories of people based on prejudice. This includes
treatment of an individual or group based on their actual or perceived
membership in a certain group or social category, "in a way that is worse
than the way people are usually treated".
Harassment
Wage discrimination
Discrimination in hiring
Discrimination in housing
