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Inside Out & Back Again
Term | Definition |
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Cultural Assimilation | process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group. |
Asylum | a place of refuge or safety granted to a political refugee from a foreign country. |
Critical | very important or urgent. Having the nature of a turning point, crisis or emergency. |
Dynamic | a process, system or person characterized by change. |
Flee | to run away from a place or situation of danger. |
Immigrant | a person who makes a choice to go live permanently in a foreign country. |
Impact | the effect or influence made by something. |
Incident | an occurrence or disturbance. |
Persecution | prolonged ill-treatment of or violence towards someone. |
Refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape danger, such as war, persecution or natural disaster. |
Universal | of or relating to everyone in the world or everyone in a particular place, society or group of people |