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Ethnics 1 Honors
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
05/18/2011

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Hijab
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That is when the muslim girls where stuff on their heads but rasina said NO
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Scapegoat
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i'ts not an escaping goat, its when you blame someone for stuff like hugo
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EO 9066
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United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
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sexual harassment
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bully ing of a sexual nature
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Haji
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islamic honorific
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unearned privilege
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privilege just by being something, like white privelege
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Authoritarian Personality
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Taught personality that is very authoritarian and disciplinary with children, and creates hostility in said children that can be pushed into other areas
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Segmented Assimilation
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Segmented assimilation refers to a variety of adaptive experiences immigrants may have as they become part of a host society. The traditional model of assimilation involves 4 phases: contact, competition, accommodation, and then finally, assimilation. These phases were thought to be a common experiences for all immigrants to a new host society. Segmented assimilation, however, includes many different ways that a new immigrant may adapt to a new society. They may follow the traditional model and assimilate into the white middle class. Alternatively, they might follow a less prosperous path and assimilate into the underclass. Finally, they might attain upward mobility in a tight-knit immigrant community.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_segmented_assimilation#ixzz1MmWdDlxW
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legacy
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its like george bush lol
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refugee
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someone running away froms omething like when i ran away from barney
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19th amendment
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anyone can vote even if they are a virgin
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model minority
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asians because they didn't push for rights because they were silly like me i should push for rights 0.0.2120 lol its like an ip address
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5 pillars
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thats an islam thing lol i should ask rasina DID YOU DO YOUR 5 PILALRS TODAY thats a lot of dicsk
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Iu Mein
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hint its not chow mein its The Iu Mien language (Thai: ภาษาอิวเมี่ยน) is one of the main languages spoken by the Yao people in China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and more recently the United States, in diaspora.
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Non-Traditional
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like modern Title XV of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a United States law, enacted on June 23, 1972, that amended Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 2002 it was renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, in honor of its principal author Congresswoman Mink, but is most commonly known simply as Title IX. The law states that
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance..."
—20 United States Code Section 1681, [1]
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Sikhism
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Indian religion combining hinduism and islam
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Suffragists
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they were the people who wanted to vote LOL but then they didn't
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authoritarian personality
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an excessively domineering relationship with another group
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Scapegoat
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Blaming others for something that's not their fault
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social norms
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what is considered normal for a person's culture
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Stereotype
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Oversimplified generalization by which we attribute certain traits or characteristics to a group without regard to individual differences
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Ethnophaulisms
Definition
derogatory word or expression used to describe a racial or ethnic group
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middleman minorities
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Hubert Blalock suggested that this model states that some minorities are an intermediate between the social stratification system and that not all minorities are at the bottom, like Greeks
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