Refer to the dissimilarities among the individuals that is based on their social characteristics and qualities.

This may not only be regarded as a process but also as a means, an end or even as a social movement, a condition involving a program, an ideology and a problem.

Associated with a group affiliation and describes the ways in which being in a member of a particular group might express specific political opinion and attitudes.

A “group of people who share the same history, traditions and language’’

It promotes the perspective that cultures must be understood in the context of their locality. Using this perspective makes you tolerant of the differing attitudes and practices of others.

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Refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that

a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

It is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction

or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.

Biological characteristics of human such as male or female.

The perspective that promotes an individuals culture as the most efficient and superior hence the individual who exhibit ethnocentrism feels that his or her culture is the most appropriate as compared to other cultures.

These are the smaller cultural groups that share specific environments, traditions and histories that are not necessarily subscribed by the mainstream culture.