EXP DE+I Inclusive Language Guide

2 EXP | INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE GUIDE

Rev. 2023

Culture

The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or social group.

The unjust and differential treatment of the members of different age, gender, racial, ethnic, religious, national, ability identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other groups at the individual level.

Discrimination

Diversity at EXP

Representing, welcoming and respecting people, perspectives and ideas.

Fair treatment, access and opportunity for all at EXP while identifying and eliminating barriers that have prevented full participation of some groups.

Equity at EXP

Gender Neutral, Inclusive

Not referring to biological sex or gender but only to people in general.

Homophobia

Irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or gay people.

Person who moves to another country usually for permanent residence. They may or may not be citizens. Alien is considered a slur.

Immigrant

Unifying EXP’s workforce in practice, decisions, policies and culture to create equal accessibility to EXP’s resources and opportunities for success.

Inclusion at EXP

Indigenous Land Acknowledgment

An effort to recognize the Indigenous past, present and future of a particular location and to understand our own place within that relationship.

A native or inhabitant of Latin America or a person of Latin American origin living in another country.

Latino, Latina

Stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer. The acronym sometimes includes Asexual, Intersex, Questioning, Ally, Unidentified or Genderqueer. Other variations include L G B T Q I A and L G B T Q I A +. Any of a broad range of medical conditions (such as major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, or panic disorder) that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause marked distress or disability and that are typically associated with a disruption in normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions or daily functioning.

LGBTQ+ Acronym

Mental Illness

Brief and commonplace verbal, nonverbal and environmental insults against someone based on their identity. They do not have to be intentional.

Microaggression

Minority

A small group or category within a larger demographic.

Multiracial

Representing various races or a person whose parents are of different races or ethnicities.