The initial process of receiving and incorporating the attitudes, behaviors, values, and beliefs which make up the culture into which one is born. The dynamic patterns of learning behaviors, values, or beliefs exhibited by a group of people who share historical and geographic proximity. The capacity to function effectively in more than one culture, requiring the ability to appreciate, understand and interact with numbers of ethnic groups other than one's own.
Any group can prejudge or be prejudiced toward another group.
Rigid preconceptions we hold about all members of a particular group whether it be defined along racial, religious, sexual, or other lines. The belief in a perceived characteristic of the group is applied to all members without regard for individual variations.