Groups of people that have little to no societal power, are subservient to another group or are silenced. Oppressed groups may include marginalized people.
People who were forced to emigrate to a new country against their will due to outside circumstances.
The act of entering a country where you were not born in order to become a permanent resident.
When all cultural groups have access to the same rights and privileges, regardless of which group of people they belong to.
The process of becoming assimilated into a given culture, slowly acquiring their characteristics and obtaining their language and behaviors.
The cultural group that has been imitated by other institutions in society. This can include the group’s values and behavior. For much of the United States, the dominant group would be middle class, white, English-speaking persons.
The preservation of cultures as parallel and equal to the majority culture in a given society.
The idea that a person’s way of thinking, talking, and behaving should be understood and accepted by others from the same culture.