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UCSP Human Variation

Cultural variation among humans can promote diversity but can also lead to discrimination. Culture is the way of life of a group of people. Ethnocentrism views one's own culture as superior, while cultural relativism understands cultures in their local context. Nationality is tied to a nation or country through shared history, language, and territory. Ethnicity describes smaller cultural groups within a nation. Social differences exist based on socioeconomic status, gender, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Political identity relates to one's attitudes toward their society's political systems.

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UCSP Human Variation

Cultural variation among humans can promote diversity but can also lead to discrimination. Culture is the way of life of a group of people. Ethnocentrism views one's own culture as superior, while cultural relativism understands cultures in their local context. Nationality is tied to a nation or country through shared history, language, and territory. Ethnicity describes smaller cultural groups within a nation. Social differences exist based on socioeconomic status, gender, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Political identity relates to one's attitudes toward their society's political systems.

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UCSP: HUMAN VARIATION

Cultural Variation

→the variation in human conditions promotes


diversity and plurality in cultural traditions.
This could lead to discrimination and
ostracism.
CULTURE
-is a way of life of a group
of people.
Cultural Perspective
Ethnocentrism- is a perspective that promotes an
individual’s culture as the most efficient and
superior.

Cultural relativism- promotes the perspective that


cultures must be understood in the context of their
locality.
NATIONALITY
AND
ETHNICITY
Nationality- is the identity that is tied to
being part of a nation or country.
A group of people who share the same
history, traditions, and language and who
inhabits in a particular territory delineated by a
political border and controlled by the
government.
Ethnicity-
these are the smaller cultural groups
within the nation that shape specific
environments, traditions and histories
that are not necessarily subscribed by
the mainstream culture.
Social Differences
-the differences among the individuals based on social
characteristics and qualities.

Socio-economic status-it refers to the category of persons


who have more less the same socio-economic privileges.

Gender- refers to the socially constructed roles,


behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given
society considers appropriate for men and women.
Sex - biological characteristics of human
such as male or female.
Sexual orientation - it describes a person
enduring physical romantic or emotional
attraction to another person.
Gender identity - it is your own or internal
personal sense of being a man or a
woman.
Types of Gender

1. Heterosexual- a person with this gender is inclined to be sexually attracted


to a person of the opposite sex. (straight)

2. Homosexual- a person that is sexually attracted to the same sex.

Lesbian- a woman who is emotionally, romantically, sexually attracted to other


women.
Gay- a man who is emotionally, romantically, sexually attracted to other men.

3. Bisexual- a person that is sexually, romantically, and emotionally attracted to


two sexes.
Types of Gender

4. Asexual- totally incapable of being attracted to any


sex.

5. Polysexual/Queer- a person that is attracted to


multiple `types of gender.

6. Pansexual- accommodates all types of gender.


There are people whose gender identities
do not match on their biological identity
as male or female these people classify
themselves as transgender. Their sexual
orientation is not related to their genitalia,
which allow them to identify with other
type of gender.
Political identity
- refers to the set of attitudes and practices
that an individual adheres to in relation to the
political systems and actors within his or her
society.

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