Friday, March 6, 2009

Visual Dictionary

Alienation: to make something less friendly or sympatheic towards you.

EX:I feel a sense of alienation from scoiety.


Assimilate(d): To fully understand an idea or some information so that you are able to use it yourself.

EX: Bread is assimilateed more easily than rice.

Barriers: An object like a fance that prevents people from moving forward from one place to another.

EX:The crowd had to stand behind barriers.

Optimistic: Expecting good things to happen or something to be successful; showing this feeling.

EX: We are now taking a more optimistic view.

Stereotype: A fixed idea or image that many people have of a paticular type of person ot things, but which is often not ture in reality.

EX: He dosen't conform to the usual stereotype of the businessman.

Enthnocentrism: Based on the ideas and belifes of one particular culture and using these to judge other cultures.

EX: He is ethnocetrism of freedom.

Empathy: The ability to understand another person's feelings, experience, etc.

EX:Enpathy for other people's situations.

Diversity: A range of many people or things that are very different from each other. Many difference of things; culture, food, races, etc.

EX: America is proudof its diversity.

Liberal: Willing to understand and respect to other and economic freedom.

EX: He is liberal with his money.

Superficial: Not studying or looking at somethign thorughly.

EX: The book shows only a superficial understanding of the historical context.

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