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Literally translated, the word _________ derives from the Latin root diversus meaning various or variety.
- correct answers DIVERSITY
A ______ _____ is a group of people who share distinctive physical traits such as skin color or facial
characteristics. - correct answers RACIAL GROUP
_______ may be defined as a distinctive pattern of beliefs and values learned by a group of people who
share the same social heritage and traditions. - correct answers CULTURE
List and define the key components of culture: - correct answers 1. Language - How members of the
culture communicate through written or spoken words and their distinctive style of nonverbal
communication
2. Space - How cultural members arrange themselves with respect to social-spatial distance
3. Time - How the culture conceives of, divides, and uses time
4. Aesthetics - How cultural members appreciate and express artistic beauty and creativity
5. Family - The culture's attitudes and habits with respect to interacting with family members
6. Economics - How the culture meets its members' material needs, and its customary ways of acquiring
and distributing wealth
7. Gender roles - the culture's expectation for "appropriate" male and female behavior
, 8. Politics - How decision-making power is executed in the culture
9. Science and technology - the culture's attitude toward and use of science or technology
10. Philosophy - the culture's ideas or views on wisdom, goodness, truth, and social values
11. Spirituality and religion - Cultural beliefs about a supreme being and an afterlife
______ _____ may be defined as a group of people who share the same culture. - correct answers
ETHNIC GROUP
_________ ____________ may be defined as appreciating both the unique perspectives of different
cultural groups as well as universal aspects of the human experience that are common to all groups. -
correct answers DIVERSITY APPRECIATION
Experiencing diversity stretches the brain beyond its normal comfort zone requiring it to work harder to
assimilate something unfamiliar. When we encounter the unfamiliar, the brain has to engage extra
effort to understand it by _________ and ___________ into something you already know. - correct
answers COMPARING, CONTRASTING
____________ may be defined as being centered on your own culture to such a degree, you view the
world solely through your own culture and fail to consider or appreciate other cultural perspectives. -
correct answers ETHNOCENTRIC
List the strategies a college student may use to develop/enhance his or her global citizenship: - correct
answers 1. Consciously avoid preoccupation with physical appearances.
2. Form impressions of others on a person-to-person basis, not on the basis of their group membership.
3. Place yourself in situations and locations on campus where you will come in regular contact with
individuals from diverse groups.