Understanding the assumptions and values upon which one's own behavior and world view rests. The learned and shared knowledge, beliefs and rules that people use to interpret experience and to generate social behavior. The guiding force behind the behaviors and material products associated with a group of people. A form of anxiety that results from an inability to predict the behavior of others, or act appropriately in a cross-cultural situation. A group identity based on culture, language, religion, or a common attachment to a place or kin ties.
Ethnicity is a relational concept.
The ability to produce intended effects on oneself, on other people, and on things or situations. The belief that some human population groups are inherently superior or inferior to others because of genetically transmitted characteristics. The manner in which social ideologies influence individual access to services and opportunities provided by particular institutional systems, e.g. political, legal, education, health care, housing and economic systems. Consensus Use of consensus as a decision tool has world-wide historic roots.