Belonging And Inclusion Terms

A Comprehensive List of Belonging And Inclusion Terms

The following is a list of carefully researched and thoughtfully discussed key social justice terms and definitions. It is by no means a comprehensive list as diversity, inclusion, culture, and equity terms are ever-expanding and changing, but it is a good place to start.

Ableism | The belief that disabled individuals are inferior to non-disabled individuals, leading to discrimination toward and oppression of individuals with disabilities and physical differences.

Accessibility | The extent to which a facility is readily approachable and usable by
individuals with disabilities, particularly such areas as the residence halls, classrooms, and public areas.

Accomplice(s) | The actions of an accomplice are meant to directly challenge
institutionalized racism, colonization, and white supremacy by blocking or impeding racist people, policies, and structures.

Actor [Actions] | Do not disrupt the status quo, much the same as a spectator at a game, both have only a nominal effect in shifting an overall outcome.

Adultism | Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions against young people, in favor of the older person(s).

Advocate | Someone who speaks up for themselves and members of their identity group; e.g. a person who lobbies for equal pay for a specific group.

Ageism | Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on differences in age; usually that of younger persons against older.

A-Gender | Not identifying with any gender, the feeling of having no gender.

Agent | The perpetrator of oppression and/or discrimination; usually a member of the dominant, non‐target identity group.

Ally | A person of one social identity group who stands up in support of members of another group. Typically, members of a dominant group standing beside member(s) of a targeted group; e.g., a male arguing for equal pay for women.

Androgyne | A person whose biological sex is not readily apparent, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Androgynous | A person whose identity is between the two traditional genders.

Androgyny | A person who rejects gender roles entirely.

Androgynous | Someone who reflects an appearance that is both masculine and feminine, or who appears to be neither or both a male and a female.

Anti‐Semitism | The fear or hatred of Jews, Judaism, and related symbols.

A-Sexuality | Little or no romantic, emotional, and/or sexual attraction toward other persons. Asexual could be described as non-sexual, but asexuality is different from celibacy, which is a choice to not engage in sexual behaviors with another person.

Assigned Sex | What a doctor determines to be your physical sex birth based on the appearance of one’s primary sex characteristics.

Assimilation | A process by which outsiders (persons who are “others” by cultural heritage, gender, age, religious background, and so forth) are brought into, or made to take on the existing identity of the group into which they are being assimilated. The term has had a negative connotation in recent educational literature, imposing coercion and a failure to recognize and value diversity. It is also understood as a survival technique for individuals or groups.

Bias | Prejudice; an inclination or preference, especially one that interferes with impartial judgment.

Bigotry | An unreasonable or irrational attachment to negative stereotypes and prejudices.

Bi-Phobia | The fear or hatred of homosexuality (and other non‐heterosexual identities), and persons perceived to be bisexual.

Bi-Racial | A person who identifies as coming from two races. A person whose biological parents are of two different races.

Bi-Sexual | A romantic, sexual, or/and emotional attraction toward people of all sexes. A person who identifies as bisexual is understood to have an attraction to male- identified and female-identified persons. However, it can also mean female attraction and non-binary, or other identifiers. It is not restricted to only CIS identifiers.

Brave Space | Honors and invites full engagement from folks who are vulnerable while also setting the expectation that there could be an oppressive moment that the facilitator and allies have a responsibility to address.

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Categorization | The natural cognitive process of grouping and labeling people, things, etc. based on their similarities. Categorization becomes problematic when the groupings become oversimplified and rigid (e.g. stereotypes).

Cis-Gender | A person who identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth.

Cis-Sexism | Oppression based assumption that transgender identities and sex embodiments are less legitimate than cis gender ones.

Classism | Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on a difference in socioeconomic status, income, class, usually by upper classes against lower.

Coalition | A collection of different people or groups, working toward a common goal.

Codification | The capture and expression of a complex concept in a simple symbol, sign, or prop; for example, symbolizing “community” (equity, connection, unity) with a circle.

Collusion | Willing participation in the discrimination against and/or oppression of one’s own group (e.g., a woman who enforces dominant body ideals through her comments and actions).

Color Blind | The belief in treating everyone “equally” by treating everyone the same; based on the presumption that differences are by definition bad or problematic, and therefore best ignored (i.e., “I don’t see race, gender, etc.”).

Colorism | A form of prejudice or discrimination in which people are treated differently based on the social meanings attached to skin color.

Co-Option | A process of appointing members to a group, or an act of absorbing or assimilating.

Co-Optation | Various processes by which members of the dominant cultures or groups assimilate members of target groups, reward them, and hold them up as models for other members of the target groups. Tokenism is a form of co-opting.

Conscious Bias (Explicit Bias) | Refers to the attitudes and beliefs we have about a person or group on a conscious level. Much of the time, these biases, and their expression arise as the direct result of a perceived threat. When people feel threatened, they are more likely to draw group boundaries to distinguish themselves from others.

Critical Race Theory | Critical race theory in education challenges the dominant discourse on race and racism as they relate to education by examining how educational theory, policy, and practice are used to subordinate certain racial and ethnic groups. There are at least five themes that form the basic perspectives, research methods, and pedagogy of critical race theory in education:

The centrality and inter sectionality of race and racism 5
The challenge to the dominant ideology
The commitment to social justice
The centrality of experiential knowledge
The interdisciplinary perspective

Culture | Culture is the pattern of daily life learned consciously and unconsciously by a group of people. These patterns can be seen in language, governing practices, arts, customs, holiday celebrations, food, religion, dating rituals, and clothing.

Cultural Appropriation | The adoption or theft of icons, rituals, aesthetic standards, and behavior from one culture or subculture by another. It is generally applied when the subject culture is a minority culture or somehow subordinate in social, political, economic, or military status to appropriating culture. This “appropriation” often occurs without any real understanding of why the original culture took part in these activities, often converting culturally significant artifacts, practices, and beliefs into “meaningless” pop- culture or giving them a significance that is completely different/less nuanced than they would originally have.

Dialogue | “Communication that creates and recreates multiple understandings” (Wink, 1997). It is bi-directional, not zero‐sum, and may or may not end in agreement.

Disability | An impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these. It substantially affects a person’s life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person’s lifetime.

Discrimination | The denial of justice and fair treatment by both individuals and institutions in many areas, including employment, education, housing, banking, and political rights. Discrimination is an action that can follow prejudiced thinking.

Diversity | The wide variety of shared and different personal and group characteristics among human beings.

Domestic Partner | Either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, straight, and same-sex couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.

Dominant Culture | The cultural values, beliefs, and practices that are assumed to be the most common and influential within a given society.

Ethnicity | A social construct that divides individuals into smaller social groups based on characteristics such as a shared sense of group membership, values, behavioral patterns, language, political and economic interests, history, and ancestral geographical base.

Haitian
African American (Black)
Chinese
Korean
Vietnamese (Asian)
Cherokee, Mohawk
Navajo (Native American)
Cuban
Mexican
Puerto Rican (Latino)
Polish
Irish
Swedish (White)

Ethnocentricity | Considered by some to be an attitude that views one’s own culture as superior. Others cast it as “seeing things from one’s ethnic group” without the necessary connotation of superiority.

Euro-Centric | The inclination to consider European culture as normative. While the term does not imply an attitude of superiority (since all cultural groups have the initial right to understand their own culture as normative), most use the term with a clear awareness of the historic oppressiveness of Euro-centric tendencies in U.S. and European society.

Equality | A state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in certain respects, including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights, and equal access to certain social goods and services.

Equity | Takes into consideration the fact that the social identifiers (race, gender, socioeconomic status, etc.) do affect equality. In an equitable environment, an individual or a group would be given what was needed to give them an equal advantage. This would not necessarily be equal to what others were receiving. It could be more or different. Equity is an ideal and a goal, not a process. It ensures everyone has the resources they need to succeed.

Feminism | The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

Femme | A person who expresses and/or identifies with femininity.

First Nation People | Individuals who identify as those who were the first people to live on the western Hemisphere continent. People also identified as Native Americans.

Fundamental Attribution Bias | A self-serving bias, which is the tendency to attribute our successes to ourselves, and our failures to others and the situation. … Or taking credit (internal) for one’s successes but blaming failures on external causes.

Gay | A person who is emotionally, romantically, or sexually attracted to members of the same gender.

Gender | The socially constructed concepts of masculinity and femininity; the “appropriate” qualities accompanying biological sex.

Gender Bending | Dressing or behaving in such a way as to question the traditional feminine or masculine qualities assigned to articles of clothing, jewelry, mannerisms, activities, etc.

Gender Expression | External manifestations of gender expressed through a person’s name, pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, and/or body characteristics.

Gender Fluid | A person who does not identify with a single fixed gender; of or relating to a person having or expressing a fluid or unfixed gender identity.

Gender Identity | Your internal sense of self; how you relate to your gender(s).

Gender Non-Conforming | A broad term referring to people who do not behave in a way that conforms to the traditional expectations of their gender, or whose gender expression does not fit into a category.

Genderqueer | Genderqueer people a person who does not subscribe to conventional gender distinctions but identifies with neither, both, or a combination of male and female genders. People who identify as “genderqueer” may see themselves as both male or female aligned, neither male nor female, nor as falling completely outside these categories.

Hate Crime | A crime, typically one involving violence, that is motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual the orientation of any person.

Heterosexism | A system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality. This assumes that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation.

Heterosexuality | An enduring romantic, emotional, and/or sexual attraction toward people of the other sex. The term “straight” is commonly used to refer to heterosexual people.

Heterosexual | Attracted to members of another or the opposite sex.

Homophobia | The fear or hatred of homosexuality (and other non‐heterosexual
identities), and persons perceived to be gay or lesbian.

Homosexual | Attracted to members of the same sex. (Not a preferred term. See Gay, Lesbian)

Humility | A modest or low view of one’s importance; humbleness.

Impostor Syndrome | Refers to individuals’ feelings of not being as capable or adequate as others. A psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments or talents and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud”.
Inclusion | An organizational effort and practices in which different groups or
individuals from different backgrounds are accepted culturally and socially,
welcomed, and treated equally.

These differences could be self-evident, such as national origin, age, race and ethnicity, religion/belief, gender, marital status, and socioeconomic status
These differences could be more inherent, such as educational background, training, sector experience, organizational tenure, even personality, such as introverts and extroverts.

Inclusive Language | Refers to non-sexist language or language that “includes” all persons in its references. For example, “a writer needs to proofread his work” excludes females due to the masculine reference of the pronoun. Another example is “a nurse must disinfect her hands” is exclusive of males and stereotypes nurses as females.

Inclusion | An organizational effort and practices in which different groups or
individuals from different backgrounds are accepted culturally and socially,
welcomed, and treated equally.

These differences could be self-evident, such as national origin, age, race and ethnicity, religion/belief, gender, marital status, and socioeconomic status
These differences could be more inherent, such as educational background, training, sector experience, organizational tenure, even personality, such as introverts and extroverts.

In-Group Bias ( Favoritism )|The tendency for groups to“favor” themselves by rewarding group members economically, socially, psychologically, and emotionally to uplift themselves over another group.

Institutional Racism |It is widely accepted that racism is, by definition, institutional. Institutions have greater power to reward and penalize. They reward by providing career opportunities for some people and foreclosing them for others. They reward as well by the way social goods are distributed, by deciding who receives institutional benefits.

Intercultural Competency | A process of learning about and becoming allies with people from other cultures. This broadens our understanding and ability to participate in a multicultural process. The key element to becoming more culturally competent is respect for the ways that others live in and perceive the world in which they live. This assumes an openness to learn about and accept differences.

Inter-Group Conflict | Tension and conflict which exists between social groups and which may be enacted by individual members of these groups.

Internalized Homophobia | Internalized sexual stigma which is often experienced by members of the LGBTQIA community. This refers to personal acceptance and endorsement of sexual stigma as part of the individual’s value system and self-concept.

Often internalized as messages of shame
Acceptance of biases, prejudices, and hatred towards gay people that have been
reinforced by society (aka societal homophobia)
These biases are internalized as self-reflections

Internalized Oppression | The process whereby individuals in the target group make oppression internal and personal by coming to believe that the lies, prejudices, and stereotypes about them are true.

Members of target groups exhibit internalized oppression when they alter their attitudes, behaviors, speech, and self-confidence to reflect the stereotypes and norms of the dominant group.
Internalized oppression can create low self- esteem, self-doubt, and even self-loathing.
It can also be projected outward as fear, criticism, and distrust of members of one’s target group.

Internalized Racism | When individuals from targeted racial groups internalize racist beliefs about themselves or members of their racial group. An example could be, believing that white leaders are inherently more competent, asserting that individuals of color are not as intelligent as white individuals; belief in that racial inequality is the result of individuals of color not raising themselves “by their bootstraps”.

Intersectionality | An approach largely advanced by women of color, arguing that classifications such as gender, race, class, and others cannot be examined in isolation from one another.

These classifications interact and intersecting individuals’ lives, in society, in social systems, and are mutually constitutive.
Exposing [one’s] multiple identities can help clarify how a person can simultaneously experience privilege and oppression

For example, a Blackwoman in America does not experience gender inequalities in the same way as a white woman, nor racial oppression identical to that experienced by a Blackman. Each race and gender intersection produces a qualitatively distinct life.

ISM |Asocial phenomenon and ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism. Specifically, a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.

Lesbian | A woman who is romantically or sexually attracted to other women. Also used as an adjective describing women who identify as such.

LGBTQIA+ | Acronym encompassing the diverse groups of lesbians, gay, bisexual,
transgender populations and allies and/or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
alliances/associations.

Lines of Difference | A person who operates across lines of difference is one who welcomes and honors perspectives from others in different racial, gender, socioeconomic, generational, regional groups than their own.

Lookism | Discrimination or prejudice based upon an individual’s appearance.

Marginalized | Excluded, ignored, or relegated to the outer edge of a group/society/community.
Micro-Aggressions | Commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory racial slights.

These messages may be sent verbally, (“You speak good English”), non-verbally (clutching one’s purse more tightly around people from certain race/ethnicity), or environmentally (symbols like the confederate flag of using Native American
mascots.)
Such communications are sometimes outside the level of conscious awareness of
perpetrators.

Micro-Insults | Verbal and nonverbal communications that subtly convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person’s racial heritage or identity.

An example is an employee who asks a colleague of color how she got her job, implying she may have landed it through an affirmative action or quota system.

Micro-Invalidation | Communications that subtly exclude, negate or nullify the thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person of color.

For instance, white individuals often ask Asian-Americans where they were born, conveying the message that they are perpetual foreigners in their land.

Model Minority |Refers to a minority ethnic, racial, or religious group whose members are assumed to have achieved a higher degree of success than the population average. This success is typically measured in income, education, and related factors such as low crime rate and high family stability.

Mono-Racial | To be of only one race (composed of or involving members of one race only; (of a person) not of mixed race.)

Multi-Cultural | This term is used in a variety of ways and is less often defined by its users than terms such as multiculturalism or multicultural education.

One common use of the term refers to the raw fact of cultural diversity: “multicultural education … responds to a multicultural population.”
Another use of the term refers to an ideological awareness of diversity: “[multicultural theorists] have a clear recognition of a pluralistic society.”
Others go beyond this and understand multiculturalism as reflecting a specific ideology of inclusion and openness toward “others.”

Perhaps the most common use of this term in the literature is in reference simultaneously to a context of cultural pluralism and ideology of inclusion or “mutual exchange of and respect for diverse cultures.” When the term is used to refer to a group of persons (or an organization or institution), it most often refers to the presence of and mutual interaction among diverse persons (in terms of race, class, gender, and so forth) of significant representation in the group. In other words, a few African Americans in a predominantly European American congregation would not make the congregation “multicultural.” >

Some use the term to refer to the mere presence of some non- majority persons
somewhere in the designated institution (or group or society), even if there is neither significant interaction nor substantial numerical representation.

Multi-Cultural Feminism | The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes within cultural/ethnic groups within a society.

Multi-Ethnic |An individual that comes from more than one ethnicity. An individual whose parents are born with more than one ethnicity.

ETHNICITY-the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition

Multiplicity | The quality of having multiple, simultaneous social identities (e.g., being male and Buddhist and working-class).

Multi-Racial | An individual that comes from more than one race.

Naming | When one articulates a thought that traditionally has not been discussed.

National Origin | The political state from which an individual hails; may or may not be the same as that person’s current location or citizenship.

Non-Binary/Gender Queer/Gender Variant | Terms used by some people who experience their gender identity and/or gender expression as falling outside the categories of man and woman.

Non-White | Used at times to reference all persons or groups outside of the white culture, often in the clear consciousness that white culture should be seen as an alternative to various non-white cultures and not as normative.

Oppression | Results from the use of institutional power and privilege where one person or group benefits at the expense of another. Oppression is the use of power and the effects of domination.

Pan-Sexual | A term referring to the potential for sexual attractions or romantic love toward people of all gender identities and biological sexes. The concept of pan-sexuality deliberately rejects the gender binary and derives its origin from the transgender movement.

Persons of Color | A collective term for men and women of Asian, African, Latin, and Native American backgrounds as opposed to the collective “White” for those of European ancestry.

Personal Identity | Our identities as individuals including our personal characteristics, history, personality, name, and other characteristics that make us unique and different from other individuals.

Prejudice | A prejudgment or preconceived opinion, feeling, or belief, usually negative, often based on stereotypes, that includes feelings such as dislike or contempt and is often enacted as discrimination or other negative behavior; OR, a set of negative personal beliefs about a social group that leads individuals to prejudge individuals from that group or the group in general, regardless of individual differences among members of that group.

Privilege | Unearned access to resources (social power) only readily available to some individuals as a result of their social group.

Privileged Group Member | A member of an advantaged social group privileged by birth or acquisition, i.e.Whites, men, owning class, upper-middle-class, heterosexuals, gentiles, Christians, non-disabled individuals.

Post-Racial | A theoretical term to describe an environment free from racial preference, discrimination, and prejudice.

Queer | An umbrella term that can refer to anyone who transgresses society’s view of gender or sexuality. The definition indeterminacy of the word Queer, its elasticity, is one of its constituent characteristics: “A zone of possibilities.”

Questioning |A term used to refer to an individual who is uncertain of their sexual orientation or identity.

Race | A social construct that artificially divides individuals into distinct groups based on characteristics such as physical appearance (particularly skin color), ancestral heritage, cultural affiliation or history, ethnic classification, and/or the social, economic, and political needs of a society at a given period. Scientists agree that there is no biological or genetic basis for racial categories.

Racial Equity | Racial equity is the condition that would be achieved if one’s racial identity is no longer predicted, in a statistical sense, how one fare. When this term is used, the term may imply that racial equity is one part of racial justice, and thus also includes work to address the root causes of inequities, not just their manifestations. This includes the elimination of policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages that reinforce differential outcomes by race or fail to eliminate them.

Racial Profiling | The use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense.

Racism | Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on a difference in race/ethnicity; usually white/European descent groups against persons of color. Racism is racial prejudice plus power. It is the intentional or unintentional use of power to isolate, separate, and exploit others. The use of power is based on a belief in superior origin, the identity of supposed racial characteristics. Racism confers certain privileges on and defends the dominant group, which in turn, sustains and perpetuates racism.

Re-Fencing (Exception-Making) | A cognitive process for protecting stereotypes by explaining any evidence/example to the contrary as an isolated exception.

Religion | A system of beliefs, usually spiritual, and often in terms of a formal, organized denomination.

Resilience | The ability to recover from some shock or disturbance.

Safe Space | Refers to an environment in which everyone feels comfortable expressing themselves and participating fully, without fear of attack, ridicule, or denial of experience.

Safer Space| A supportive, non-threatening environment that encourages open-mindedness, respect, a willingness to learn from others, as well as physical and mental safety.

Saliency | The quality of group identity in which an individual is more conscious and plays a larger role in that individual’s day‐to‐day life; for example, a man’s awareness of his “maleness” in an elevator with only women.

Scapegoating | The action of blaming an individual or group for something when, in reality, there is no one person or group responsible for the problem. It targets another person or group as responsible for problems in society because of that person’s group identity.

Sex | Biological classification of male or female (based on genetic or physiological features); as opposed to gender.

Sexism | Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on difference in sex/gender usually by men against women.

Sexual Orientation | One’s natural preference in sexual partners; examples include homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality. Sexual orientation is not a choice, it is determined by a complex interaction of biological, genetic, and environmental factors.

Social Identity | Involves how one characterizes oneself, the affinities one has with other people, the ways one has learned to behave in stereotyped social settings, the things one values in oneself and the world, and the norms that one recognizes or accepts governing everyday behavior.

Social Justice | A broad term for action intended to create genuine equality, fairness, and respect among peoples.

Social Oppression | This condition exists when one social group, whether knowingly or unconsciously, exploits another group for its benefit.

Social Self-Esteem | The degree of positive/negative evaluation an individual holds about their particular situation regarding their social identities.

Social Self-View | An individual’s perception about which social identity group(s) they belong.

Stereotype | Blanket beliefs, and expectations about members of certain groups that present an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment. They go beyond necessary and useful categorizations and generalizations in that they are typically negative, are based on little information and are highly generalized.

System of Oppression | Conscious and unconscious, non‐ random, and organized harassment, discrimination, exploitation, discrimination, prejudice, and other forms of unequal treatment that impact different groups.

Tolerance |Acceptance, and open‐mindedness to different practices, attitudes, and cultures; does not necessarily mean agreement with the differences.

Tokenism | Hiring or seeking to have representation such as a few women and/or racial or ethnic minority persons to appear inclusive while remaining mono-cultural.

Transgender/Trans | An umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. The term transgender is not indicative of gender expression, sexual orientation, hormonal makeup, physical anatomy, or how one is perceived in daily life.

Trans Misogyny | The negative attitudes, expressed through cultural hate, individual and state violence, and discrimination directed toward trans women and transfeminine people.

Transphobia | Fear or hatred of transgender people; transphobia is manifested in several ways, including violence, harassment, and discrimination. This phobia can exist in LGB and straight communities.

Transexual | One who identifies as a gender other than that of their biological sex.

Two-Spirit | An umbrella term for a wide range of non- binary culturally recognized gender identities and expressions among Indigenous people.
A Native American term for individuals who identify both as male and female. In western culture, these individuals are identified as lesbian, gay, bi‐sexual, or trans-gendered.

Unconscious Bias (Implicit Bias) | Social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups, and these biases stem from one’s tendency to organize social worlds by categorizing.

Undocumented | Often falsely referred to a foreign-born person living in the United States a without legal citizenship status.

Undocumented Student | School-aged immigrants who entered the United States without inspection/overstayed their visas and are present in the United States with or without their parents. They face unique legal uncertainties and limitations within the United States educational system.

Veteran Status | Whether or not an individual has served in a nation’s armed forces (or another uniformed service).

Whiteness | A broad social construction that embraces the white culture, history, ideology, racialization, expressions, and economic, experiences, epistemology, and emotions and behaviors and nonetheless reaps material, political, economic, and structural benefits for those socially deemed white.

White Fragility | Discomfort, and defensiveness on the part of a white person when confronted by information about racial inequality and injustice.

White Privilege | White Privilege is the spillover effect of racial prejudice and white institutional power.

It means, for example, that a White person in the United States has privilege, simply because one is White. It means that as a member of the dominant group a White person has greater access or availability to resources because of being White.
It means that White ways of thinking and living are seen as the norm against which all people of color are compared. Life is structured around those norms for the benefit of White people.
White privilege is the ability to grow up thinking that race doesn’t matter. It is not having to daily think about skin color and the questions, looks, and hurdles that need to be overcome because of one’s color.
White Privilege may be less recognizable to some White people because of gender, age, sexual orientation, economic class, or physical or mental ability, but it remains a reality because of one’s membership in the White dominant group.

White Supremacy | White supremacy is a historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations, and individuals of color by white individuals and nations of the European continent to maintain and defend a system of wealth, power, and privilege.

Worldview | The perspective through which individuals view the world; comprised of their history, experiences, culture, family history, and other influences.

Xenophobia | Hatred or fear of foreigners /strangers or their politics or culture.

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