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Patient Care: Unit 13 Terms
Human Diversity
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Health Care
Undergraduate 3
07/24/2014

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Assimilation
Definition
process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give up their original cultural language and identity and melt into another, usually larger, group
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Bias
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prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitudes
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Biculturalism
Definition
being able to negotiate two or more different cultures competently, individual and mainstream
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Cultural
Definition
of or relating to culture
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Cultures
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all of the society transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thoughts by particular classes, communities, or populations
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Discrimination
Definition
physical actions involved in the unequal treatment of people because they belong to certain category, group, or race
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Diverse
Definition
differing from one another; made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements
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Diversity
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fact or quality of being diverse, different (all of the ways in which human beings are both similar and different)
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Ethnic
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designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, and common history; national origin
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Ethnicity
Definition
ethnic affiliation or classification
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Ethnocentrism
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tendency toward viewing the norms and values of the individual’s own culture as absolute and using them as a standard against which all other cultures are measured
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Gender
Definition
chromosomal designation of female or male being
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Homophobia
Definition
irrational fear of and hostility toward homosexuality
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Human
Definition
people
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Mental and Physical Abilities
Definition
capacity to perform cognitive and psychomotor tasks
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Race
Definition
population that differs from others in the relative frequency of some gene or genes; any of the different varieties of humankind, distinguished by type of hair, color of eyes and skin, stature, bodily proportions, or other characteristics
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Racism
Definition
belief in racial superiority, leading to discrimination and prejudice toward races considered inferior
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