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01/05/2016

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assimilation
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In general the sociocultural process in which the sense and consciousness of association with one national and cultural group changes to identification with another such group, so that the merged individual or group may partially or totally lose its original national identity.
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racism
Definition
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilites specific to that race, especially so as to distinguised it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
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discrimination
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is action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice.
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prejudice
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an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
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ostracized
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exclude (someone) from a society or group
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fascism
Definition
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete,  forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism,regimenting all industry,commerce,etc., and emphazing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
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persecution
Definition
hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
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anti-semitism
Definition
hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
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Holocaust
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the mass killing of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War 2
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World War II
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A war fought form 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers--Germany,Italy,and Japan-- and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States. The Empire of Japan aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific and was already at war with the Republic of China in 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and the Unitefd Kingdom.
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