Race
The categorization of humans into groups based on physical characteristics and ancestry.
What is race?
the largest ethnic minority in the U.S
What is Latinos?
A group making up more than half of a population.
What is a majority?
A group of languages which share common linguistic and have evolved from a common ancestor.
What is a language family?
A blended language differentiated from a pidgin language by its more complex grammar and its status as a first language.
What is creole?
A belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race and/or inferiority of a particular race
What is racism?
fear of different cultures.
What is xenophobia?
Based on mutual respect for one another’s cultures among the various groups in a society
What is pluralism?
The internal mental capacity for language.
What is a langue?
The “scripts” that guide social behavior and language use in everyday speaking situations.
What is cultural scripts?
The spatial and/or social separation of people by race or ethnicity.
What is segregation?
group of people sharing a common cultural or national heritage and often sharing a common language or religion.
What is an ethnicity?
A group making up less than half of a population.
What is a minority?
A collection of languages within a family with a common ancestral language.
What is a language branch?
A system of standards for perceiving, believing, evaluating and acting.
What is cultural schemata?
A set of laws enforcing racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the southern United States in the post Civil War era.
What is Jim Crow laws?
the person(s) who decide who is a member of an ethnicity.
What is the ethnic group?
African Americans in the Jim Crow rural South migrating to the industrialized North
What is the Great Migration?
The external manifestation of ideas through speech.
What is parole?
Variants of the single language.
What is a dialect?
mistreatment due to perceived difference.
What is discrimination?
An attempt to completely expunge or remove traces of another population from a place. May or may not relate to genocide.
What is ethnic cleansing?
Self-enforced separation for a racial or ethnic group.
What is an enclave?
People who share a similar cultural background and language knowledge.
What is a speech community?
A language used to make communication possible between people who do not share a native language.
What is a Lingua franca?