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anxiety
diffuse state of being uneasy or worried about what may happen
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authoritarian personality
type of individual who tends to overgeneralize and think in bipolar terms and who is highly conventional, moralistic, and uncritical of higher authority
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cultural relativism
Theory from anthropology that the differences in ppls are the result of historical, social, and geographic conditions and that all populations have complete and equally developed cutlures
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Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong's attempt to purify China of outside influences and build a Marxist-Chinese culture
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cultural sensitivity
making no value judgements based on one's own cultural values about other cultures' practices or artifacts (ex: better or worse, right or wrong)
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ethnocentrism
negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standards of one's own culture (tendency of to use our own way of doing things as a way to judge others)
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four modernizations
Deng Xiaoping's economic programs in China in agriculture, industry, science, and technology
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Hong Kong
British Crown Colony returned to China in 1997
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Macao
Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999
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prejudice
irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, religion, or sexual orientation
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profiling
law enforcement practice of scrutinizing certain individuals based on characteristics thought to indicate the likelihood of criminal behavior
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stereotype
judgment made about another solely on the basis of ethnic or other group membership
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Taiwan
Republic of China located on the island of Formosa off the southeastern coast of China
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Tibet
a country in South Asia north of the Himalayus under the suzerainty, or overlordship, of China
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