European American History
Is most clearly used to describe an individual learning the values, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and rituals associated with one’s primary culture, typically the culture into which one was born
What is Enculturation?
A metaphor to describe the process of combining a variety of cultural backgrounds and beliefs to create a new, virtuous (i.e., White American) culture, with the idea being it’s okay to be different, as long as one accepts mainstream
What is a melting Pot?
Generally refers to encounters between primary cultures resulting in changes of cultural values or beliefs as well as behaviors,
What is Acculturation?
An ethnic group of people traditionally
from the isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas and because these groups, ironically, have not been considered European by their neighbors
What is Caucasian?
Will be used generally to refer to individuals living in the United States who are recent immigrants from or identify closely with their European heritage in terms of values, traditions, and worldview. When talking about specific examples, the specific ethnic label will be used when it is known
What is European American?