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3978995822tenementscrowded apartments (poorly equip)0
3978995823redliningpolicy to hand out loans (illegal)1
3978995824blockbustingsegregating communities2
3978995825counter urbanizationmore people moving to the country (sprawling; spreading out)3
3978995826culturespecialize behavioral patterns, understandings, adaptations, and social systems that summarize a group of people's learned ways of life4
3981140444culture complexindividual cultural traits that are functionally interrelated ( american football-- sports culture)5
3981140445culture regionportion of the earth's surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable distinctive cultural characteristics (economic type)6
3981140446culture realma set of cultural regions showing related cultural complexes and landscapes7
3981140447customfrequent repetition of an act until it becomes characteristics of a group of people8
3981140448habitrepetitive act performed by an individual9
3981140449folk culturetraditionally practiced by a small homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation10
3981140450pop culturefound in large heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in person characteristics11
3981140451material culturethe physical objects produced by a culture in order to meet its material needs:food, clothing, shelter, arts, and recreation12
3981140452wide distributiondifferences from place to place, uncommon, more likely differences at one place over time13
3981140453pollutionwaste from generation and discarded products14
3981140454tabooa restriction on behavior imposed by social customs15
3981140455assimilationwhen two cultures meet and there's a total absorption of minority culture16
3981140456acculturationminority culture begins to blend with the majority17
3981140457maladaptive diffusionnot practical diffusion18
3981140458sequent occupancytheory that overtimed different people conquer an area19
3981140459political ecologyinteraction between the government and economy20
3981140460cultural convergencewhen two cultural groups interact with eachother21
3981140461cultural divergencecultures isolate themselves from each other22
3981140462transculturationequal sharing of cultural traits23
3981140463ethnocentrismview of the world from your ethnicity24
3981140464dialectlocal form of a language25
3981140465ideogramssymbols represent an idea or concept rather than a specific sound (used in china and east asian countries)26
3981140466linguna francaa language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages27
3981140467pidgina form of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary from a linguna franca (speakers of two different languages)28
3996989024creolea language that results from the mixing if a colonize's language with an indigenous language29

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