GLOBAL STUDIES Key Vocabulary

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

• ethnicity

• community

• globalization

• values

People living together in some form of organized community

• society

• culture

• multicultural

• point of view

The ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society

• tikanga

• ethnicity

• race

• culture

The presence of two different cultures in the same country or region

• multicultural

• biculturalism

• social issue

• generalization

Several different distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

• culture

• bicultural

• multicultural

• race

Who you are, the way you think about yourself, the way you are viewed by the world and the characteristics that define you

• values

• perspective

• identity

• point of view

A social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language,

• society

• tradition

• social justice

• ethnicity

A group of people who have in common some visible physical traits, such as skin color, hair texture, facial features, and eye formation

• race

• ethnicity

• identity

• community

The development of closer economic, cultural, and political relations among all the countries of the world as a result of travel and communication becoming easier.

• perspective

• globalization

• social justice

• identity

An attitude, way of thinking or opinion on something

• turangawaewae

• tikanga

• point of view

• value