Section 4
Prejudice and Discrimination
By Boundless
Prejudice refers to a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived group membership (e.g., race, class, or gender).
Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on his or her membership (or perceived membership) in a certain group.
Institutionalized discrimination refers to discrimination embedded in the procedures, policies or objectives of large organizations.
Assimilation describes the process of social, cultural, and political integration of a minority into a dominant culture and society.
Multiculturalism is an ideology that promotes the institutionalization of communities containing multiple cultures.
Segregation is the division of human beings into separate groups based on any number of criteria, such as race, ethnicity, or nationality.
Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority.
Genocide is "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group".