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Definitions

Culture - the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular group of people.

PDF fileSkill 27: Celebrating Diversity / Cultural Awareness, "Activity A: Everyone Has a Culture." University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension

Diversity - USDA-Differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, sexual orientation, spiritual practice and other human differences.

Ethnicity - a group identity assigned to specific groups of people who share a common linguistic, religious and/or cultural heritage. In some cases, there is also a shared racial or national identity. All people are of an ethnic heritage. Ethnicity is not synonymous with "race".

Privilege - one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because of anything they've done or failed to do.

Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies."

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