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Statutory Rights - ANS ✓Rights given through the passing of laws by state
legislatures.
Ethics - ANS ✓Defined as the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and
with moral duty and obligation.
Stakeholder - ANS ✓is any person, organization, or entity that may be affected
by what you do.
Public Interest - ANS ✓public office is a trust to be used only to advance public
interest, not personal gain.
Objective Judgement - ANS ✓Decisions made on the merits, free of partiality, or
prejudice and unimpeded by personal bias
Accountability - ANS ✓Government is to be conducted openly, efficiently,
suitable, and honorably so that the public can make informed judgment and hold
public officials accountable.
Democracy - ANS ✓Honor and respect democratic principles and observe the
letter and spirit of laws
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Respectability - ANS ✓Safeguard public confidence in integrity of government
by avoiding appearance of impropriety and conduct unbefitting a public official.
Prejudice - ANS ✓is an adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge of or examination of the facts; negative bias.
Attitude - ANS ✓organized and relatively unchanging combination of personal
knowledge and feeling about someone or something that influence him/her to
behave in a certain way in regards to that person or thing.
Race - ANS ✓Generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics.
Ethnicity - ANS ✓Refers to shared culture and background.
Culture - ANS ✓A way of thinking and acting based on tradition. learned
behavior passed down from one generation to another.
Discrimination - ANS ✓Acting on the basis of prejudice.
Ethnocentrism - ANS ✓is the belief in the superiority of ones ethnic group of the
act of regarding ones culture as the center of the universe.
Stereotype - ANS ✓Is the grouping people together, based on factors such as
gender, race, or ethnicity, and making assumptions and judgment about
individuals based on the group.
Scapegoating - ANS ✓is the act of blaming others instead of accepting the
consequences of ones actions.
Projection - ANS ✓providing an outlet for projecting one's tensions and
frustrations onto other people.
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