Assimilation occurs when the mainstream culture adapts their own unique cultural pattern to those of the majority, as well as intermarrying. Subordinate status is the principal characteristic of a minority group. Discrimination is the differential treatment of individuals considered to belong to a particular social group. Prejudice is an emotional, rigid attitude against members of the subordinate group. Prejudgment is the tendency to decide in advance how to think about a situation or event.
Projection is practiced against people who have personal traits that they consider undesirable.
A social norm is a commonly accepted standard that specifies the kind of behavior that is appropriate in a given situation. Homogamy is the requirement that one must marry a person similar to oneself in religion, social class, and race or ethnicity. Stereotyping is attributing a fixed and usually unfavorable or inaccurate conception to a category of people. Institutional discrimination is an unconscious result of the structure and functioning of the public institutions and policies themselves. De jure segregation is segregation required by law but is not a thing of the past.