Displacement Displacement as defined by social policy means the accumulation of poverty and misfortune. In societies such as Finland, the basic scopes of marginalisation are displacement in education, production, consumption and in a social community. The displacement of an immigrant means the opposite of integration and on the one hand, it means the immigrant's estrangement from his own culture and on the other hand, leaving him outside the life of the main community. Assimilation Assimilation means the fact that an immigrant is expected to merge into the main culture. Tolerance Tolerance is absence of prejudice and openness combined with a healthy self-esteem and knowledge of one's own culture and the ability to absorb the new and the strange and react to it critically as well.
Tolerance also means the respect for other persons' opinions and habits.
The features of one's own culture are defined as normal and those of the others as abnormal. Prejudice Predujice is a preconception of rejecting with no grounds. A cultural stereotype is a generalisation of culture. A stereotype means a simplified and general image of a person, race, nation, culture, institution or event. Cultural stereotypes can have a negatively dominant effect on interaction when other information is filtered through them.