Chapter+11


 * ** Race: A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important. **
 * ** The CBI is composed of people from different races, Kendall Cho is Chinese and Madeleine Hightower is African American. **
 * ** Stereotype: A simplified description applied to every person in some category. **
 * ** In one episode a group of gold diggers are all categorized into Gold seekers but the residents of the city since they know that there is not that much gold around there. **
 * ** Pluralism: A state in which people of all races and ethnicity are distinct but have equal social standing. **
 * ** The people who work in the CBI work with everyone no matter their race and they are all treated the same: based on skills and achievements. **


 * __Ethnicity__: a shared cultural heritage
 * Agent Kimball Cho is Chinese and his girlfriend is of the same ethnic background.

 
 * __Prejudice__: a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people
 * Agent Grace Van Pelt has a very low tolerance for prostitutes because she believes them all to be immoral and low-class even though she has only dealt with a few prostitutes.
 * __Assimilation__: the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
 * Kimball Cho is a part of a minority because he is Chinese, which isn't the dominant race in California. He has assimilated into the American culture and acts and believes certain ideas such as most Americans do.