Culture & Relationship Terms

The process by which people acquire the culture of a society

• altruism

• acculturation

• discrimination

• culture

Unselfish concern for the welfare of others

• discrimination

• cultural group

• Empathy

• altruism

A group to which one belongs based on a sharing of similar religious, language, family or physical attributes.

• Cultural Group

• acculturation

• Culture

• sterotype

The beliefs, traits, and practices or a specific group of people.

• altruism

• ethnocentrism

• culture

• sterotype

To make a difference in treatment based on something other than individual merit.

• discrimination

• Prejudice

• empathy

• culture

Being sensitive to another person in order to feel the other's emotions and experiences in a non-judgmental, accepting way.

• altruism

• culture

• empathy

• sterotype

The belief or attitude that one's own culture is better than other cultures.

• acculturation

• stereotype

• empathy

• ethnocentrism

An inflexible opinion and/or attitude or hostility directed toward an individual or group, often based on insufficient or inaccurate knowledge.

• cultural group

• prejudice

• stereotype

• culture

A commonly held mental picture of the qualities or behavior of a particular group of people.

• empathy

• ethnocentrism

• stereotype

• altruism