Cuda's Glossary
Cuda's Glossary
25 Diverse Learning Contexts. terms
For Future use and practice creating a glossary of terms.
- ableism
- noun
- A sense of discrimination that holds favor toward able-bodied people.
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- activism
- noun
- Policies or actions using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social changes.
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- ageism
- noun
- The prejudice or discrimination on the basis of someone's age.
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- apartheid
- noun
- Certain policies or systems of segregation set in place used to discriminate or alienate a particular group.
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- bias
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- to hold prejudice against someone or something in comparison with another entity to be unfair
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- bigotry
- noun
- The unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion or faction against particular individuals or entities on the basis of their membership to a group.
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- cultural
- adjective
- The relationship to ideas, customs, and social behaviors in society including the arts and intellectual achievements.
- en: cultural
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- emigrant
- noun
- Someone who leaves their own country permanently in order to find a more suitable settlement.
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- ethnicity
- noun
- The state or fact of belonging to a social group that holds a common national or cultural tradition.
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- faith
- noun
- to have complete trust or confidence in someone or something including beliefs, doctrines of religion, and spiritual apprehensions
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- heterogeneous
- adjective
- To have diversity in character or content.
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- homogeneous
- adjective
- to be of similar parts or to be of the same kind, alike
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- kinship
- noun
- To be in a state of relationship; especially of direct relationship toward family, nature or qualities.
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- language
- noun
- Principals or methods of human communication that consist of words in structured and conventional ways conveyed by speech, writing or gestures.
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- legality
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- To have quality or a state of accordance with the obligations imposed by laws.
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- literacy
- noun
- To have the ability to read, write or have competence of knowledge in a certain area.
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- minority
- noun
- To be of smaller number or of part to a larger number or part, be less than.
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- prejudice
- noun
- To have a liking or dislike toward someone or something else without good reason or judgment.
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- progressive
- adjective
- An act or action that develops gradually or within stages such as ideals.
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- socialization
- noun
- Activities of mixing socially with other individuals or entities.
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- stereotypes
- noun
- A well-known idea held about a particular person, image, ideal, or thing that is oversimplified or fixed.
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- tolerance
- noun
- To have the ability or willingness to tolerate something or someone in the existence of opinions or behavior.
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- transgender
- adjective
- Indication or relationship to a person whose sense of personal identity or gender that does not directly relate to their birth sex.
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- uncivil
- adjective
- Not being courteous or polite toward someone or something.
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- xenophobia
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- To hold a dislike or prejudice against individuals from differing countries.
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