Good day to all,

This activity was held during class hours.This is a word search regarding the basic concepts of ethnic relations.This activity is an ideal method for us to grab the concepts easily as well remember it for long. We took nearly about 15 minutes to find all the 12 concepts. Me (Valli) and my partner (Devi) enjoyed this activity and looking forward for more of this kind.Below i have listed out the meaning of all the 12 concepts:

Assimilation: the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs.

Pluralism:achievement of uniformity in applying the things that are important to all countries but at the same time each race may maintain distinctive cultural characteristics

Segregation:separation of different kinds of humans into racial groups in daily life

Accommodation:a process where the ethnic aware of their norms and values of each other, but they still retain their culture

Prejudice:negative opinions about other ethnic groups and usually based on inaccurate information and is usually not expressed openly.

Ethnocentrism:a believe among of an ethnic group that their ethnic culture and much more good and great from the other groups

Stereotype:commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals

Enculturation: process where a person learns the requirements of the culture by which that certain individual is surrounded

Discrimination: compare and contrast of an individual or any other ethnic group based on ethnic characteristics alone

Nation: a group of people who share common history, culture, ethnic origin and language

Racism: negative view of a social group to a group based on physical characteristics or race alone

Acculturation: exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.

Then moli Ramalingam (EC08050)

Hi, I want to share the activity which has been done by my classmates and me in the Ethnic relation class. We have to find the 12 basic concepts of ethnic relations in this search word activity.Although this activity is done by two people, I have to do it alone since I don't have partner.Through this word search activity I have learned about 12 basic concepts of ethnic relations , that is:

1.Assimilation-is a process of merger and consolidation of groups or individuals from different cultures to be a group with the same culture and identity

2.Discrimination-negative thinking of an ethnic to another different ethnic.

3.Nation-A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country

4. Enculturation-The processes of becoming knowledgeable and competent in one's culture

5.Pluralism -A condition in which numerous distinct ethnic, religious, or cultural groups are present and tolerated within a society.

6.Ethnocentrism -the pride that exists among a particular ethnic culture that they are better .

7.Racism -The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

8.Segregation-the isolation and separation between one ethnic group to another ethnic group

9.Stereotype-negative statements against an ethnic group

10.Accommodation-a process that resulted in each ethnic group recognizes and respects the norms and values of other ethnic groups and still retain their culture

11.Acculturation - is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact

12.Prejudice-a negative feeling or view against an individual or ethnic which was never been discussed openly

I hope I can learn more about these concepts in the coming classes.