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Appendix A

Part I

Define the following terms found in Week One and Week Two readings:

|Term |Definition |
|Diversity |Having or being made up of differing elements. |
|Ethnocentrism |The mindset to adopt one’s way of life and culture as being superior to all others. |
|Melting pot |Diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, a new cultural entity. |
|Minority group |A smaller group whose members have extremely less power or control over their own lives |
| |than do the members of a majority group. |
|Emigration |Leaving one country to abide in another country. |
|Immigration |Coming to a new country as a permanent citizen. |
|Culture |The attitudes, feelings, values, and behavior that characterize and inform society as a |
| |whole or any social group within it. |

Part II

Answer each question in 250 to 350 words:

1. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? Groups of people are identified by many different characteristics. People are identified by where they live, their skin color, their hair, the sound of their voice, how much make they make, how much money they have, where they attend school, the cars they drive, the food they eat, their sexual preference, and their political choice. These are just a few ways groups of people are identified. Almost everything about a person can identify them into group of me. Your age puts you in a group of people. My brown eyes put me into a group of people. My weight puts me into group of people. All these things classify you into a group of people. The main things that classify the ways groups of people are formed are race, culture, and ethnicity. This is mostly done by obvious features or traits. People label and group people they are passing judgment on people. Depending on how they feel or what they believe is how the person or people they are talking about will be judged, labeled, or placed into a group. When you really have to discuss this matter it seems very wrong that we label and group people, but this has been going on since the beginning of time. Another way that people are labeled and grouped is by their criminal affiliation. Sex Offenders have to registered and tell you where they live. This type of grouping is understandable for safety reasons. For everyone person we label and group, I am sure there are five people labeling and grouping us back.

2. Why do people label and group other people? People label and group people because it is in them. From the beginning of time people have been placed into groups. It is not going to stop. In the United States grouping people caused the Civil War and Segregation. After all this time you would have thought things have passed. They never really did. Racism is not as popular as it was back in the day. It is not absent. Black people and Hispanics have always been placed into groups because they look different and talk different. Now the biggest label and grouping that is going on in the United States besides Democrats and Republicans is gay marriage. Should gay people be allowed to get married is creating two very big groups of people. Within these two groups is a lot of people labeling going on. This grouping and labeling of people is happening because many people that feel strongly against the issue have be brought up that man should take a woman to be his wife. They also feel as though it goes against the Bible. The people that feel strongly for it believe people should be allowed to marry whoever they choose to as long as they are happy. I can understand both sides of this argument. If you look at it you can see where the labeling and grouping of people stems from. The sad thing it is going to get worse before it gets better. No matter we do as a society we will always group and label people. If we do not do it publicly we will do it privately.