Multiculturalism: - ANSWER refers to the fact of cultural diversity in a country; may also
describe the coexistence of different kinds of cultural groups within a country.
Cultural Identity: - ANSWER refers to an individual's sense of belonging to a cultural or ethnic
group. The term is most often used to describe the content of that individual's identity.
Exemptions: - ANSWER refers to not being subject to a rule that normally applies to everyone.
Religious groups often demand exemptions in relation to children's education.
Secession: - ANSWER describes the process in which a portion of a political community divorces
itself from the rest of the community to form its own state - that is, a group's act of breaking
away from a larger nation to establish its own system of government.
Assimilation: - ANSWER refers to a policy that encourages cultural minorities to lose their
distinctive customs or norms in order to fit in more easily with the rest of society; often resisted
by minority cultures.
Descriptive: - ANSWER concerned with how things actually are in the world or how they would
be if something were to happen.
Integration: - ANSWER idea that different cultural groups within the same country can belong
equally to it, but still have different social institutions and rights. The opposite of segregation.
Multicultural thinkers prefer this to the idea of assimilation.
Cultural Norms: - ANSWER refers to rules that exist within a group, including how to behave in
social situations; not laws, but can be important to people.
describe the coexistence of different kinds of cultural groups within a country.
Cultural Identity: - ANSWER refers to an individual's sense of belonging to a cultural or ethnic
group. The term is most often used to describe the content of that individual's identity.
Exemptions: - ANSWER refers to not being subject to a rule that normally applies to everyone.
Religious groups often demand exemptions in relation to children's education.
Secession: - ANSWER describes the process in which a portion of a political community divorces
itself from the rest of the community to form its own state - that is, a group's act of breaking
away from a larger nation to establish its own system of government.
Assimilation: - ANSWER refers to a policy that encourages cultural minorities to lose their
distinctive customs or norms in order to fit in more easily with the rest of society; often resisted
by minority cultures.
Descriptive: - ANSWER concerned with how things actually are in the world or how they would
be if something were to happen.
Integration: - ANSWER idea that different cultural groups within the same country can belong
equally to it, but still have different social institutions and rights. The opposite of segregation.
Multicultural thinkers prefer this to the idea of assimilation.
Cultural Norms: - ANSWER refers to rules that exist within a group, including how to behave in
social situations; not laws, but can be important to people.
