Jargon Jewels

3. labour A type of cheap labour that workers were signed to a contract.
6. The process where a minor culture group is absorbed by a major group and then forced to adapt to the major culture’s lifestyle.
7. pluralism The idea that a variety of peoples are free to affirm and promote their customs, traditions, beliefs and language within a society.
8. people The first people of a nation, often left out in important issues of the country.
9. A policy presented from the years of the 16th century to the 19th century whereby trade was strictly controlled to benefit the economy of the imperial power
11. The mass killings of human beings especially a targeted group of people
12. A way of thinking that centres on one’s own race and culture.
14. mosaic A society that is made up of many distinct culture group.

1. Something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past.
2. schools A tool the government used on children to encourage assimilation.
4. A reduction in population caused by natural or human made forces.
5. A form of ethnocentrism that uses a major culture’s ethics, national, religious and linguistic criteria to judge other people and their culture
6. The policy of segregating and discriminating against non-whites in South Africa.
10. aid Materials as well as expertise, given by one country to another.
13. An economic system that advocates free trade, competition and a choice as a means of achieving prosperity.