Multicultural Literature Final Exam Review Terms are listed below:
COURSE CONTENT TERMS
1. culture
DEFINITION: the traditional beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.
2. race
DEFINITION: a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits; a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
3. gender
DEFINITION: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one particular sex.
4. assimilate
DEFINITION: to absorb into the culture or customs of a population or group; noun form is assimilation.
5. discrimination
DEFINITION: prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment.
6. polyculture
DEFINITION: literally – “many cultures”
7. xenophobia
DEFINITION: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.
8. heritage
DEFINITION: something possessed as a result of one's natural situation or birth.
9. prejudice
DEFINITION: an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics; preconceived judgment or opinion.
10. ethnicity
DEFINITION: a particular ethnic affiliation or group; ethnic – of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
11. cross-cultural
DEFINITION: dealing with or offering comparison between two or more different cultures or cultural areas
12. acculturation
DEFINITION: the process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular society from infancy or prolonged contact.
FILM CONTENT TERMS
- Film
- Movie
- Cinema
- Graphics
- Infranarrative
- Film Adaptation
- Sound
- Linear Sequence
- Montage Sequence
- Editor
- Flashback
- Flashforward
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