Vocab ss

Quota

• 1.  pertaining to or characteristic of people, especially a group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

• the number or percentage of persons of a specified kind permitted to enroll in a college, join a club, immigrate to a country, etc.

• 1.  hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

• 1. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of which is foreign or strange.

Custom

• 1.  the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

• a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

• 1. a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.

  
  

• 1. a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate people based on their membership in a religious, ethnic, social, or racial group.

  
  

Ethnic

• 1.  family descent; lineage.

• 1. an organized massacre, especially of people who are Jewish.

• 1.  unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.

• 1. pertaining to or characteristic of people, especially a group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

Prejudice

•  a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

• unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.

• 1. a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

• 1. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of which is foreign or strange.

Racism

• 1.  hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

• 1.   the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group; a way of life.

  
  

• 1.  a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

• 1.  a country, locality, or situation in which cultural assimilation results in blending the heritage and traditions of previously distinct ethnic groups. It is the result of assimilation.

Culture

• 1.   a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate people based on their membership in a religious, ethnic, social, or racial group.

• 1. the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation; the process of becoming part of another culture.

  
  

• 1.  the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group; a way of life.

• the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas.

Xenophobia

• 1. a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.

• of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people.

• 1. a person who flees for safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political turmoil, war, etc.

• 1. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of which is foreign or strange.

  
  

Immigrant

• 1.  a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

• an organized massacre, especially of people who are Jewish.

•  a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.

• 1.  the number or percentage of persons of a specified kind permitted to enroll in a college, join a club, immigrate to a country, etc. 

  
  

Pogrom

• 1.  the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

• 1. an organized massacre, especially of people who are Jewish.

• 1. a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.

• 1.   hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

 Refugee

•   a person who flees for safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political turmoil, war, etc.

• 1. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

•  a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate people based on their membership in a religious, ethnic, social, or racial group

• 1.    relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people.