Diversity Dictionary

Is an umbrella term for multiple different faiths that all believe in the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century CE. Its largest groups are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Protestant churches.

Religion and philosophy that developed from the teachings of the Buddha (Sanskrit: “Awakened One”), a teacher who lived in northern India between the mid-6th and mid-4th centuries BCE (before the Common Era)

Belief that there is no higher power/god/deities and/or , often a rejection of religion and theology in general.

Belief that there may or may not be a higher power/god/deities. People who identify as agnostic may or may not prescribe to a particular religion, and prescribe to the idea that a higher power and the afterlife is unknowable.

Refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics that result from genetic ancestry. Sociologists use the concept of race to describe how people think of and treat groups of people, as people very commonly classify each other according to race (e.g., as African-American […]

Person/people of color. Used primarily in the United States to describe any person who is not white; the term is meant to be inclusive among non-white groups, emphasizing common experiences of racism.

A person who identifies as multiethnic may identify with two or more ethnicities; a person whose biological parents are of two or more ethnicities.

A person who identifies as multiracial identifies with two or more races; a person whose biological parents are of two or more different races. “Multiracial” is sometimes used interchangeably with “biracial” and “mixed race.”

A person who identifies with those who inhabited or existed in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of people from different cultures or ethnic origins arrived with the intention to colonize. The new arrivals later became dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means. Indigenous peoples hold their own diverse […]

Individuals who identify as those who were the first people to live on the North and South American Continents; people also identified as Native Americans.