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| 165881283 | Syncretic | Traditions that borrow from both the past and present | |
| 165862011 | Buddhism | System of belief that seeks to explain ultimate realities for all people -- such as the nature of suffering and the path toward self-realization | |
| 165881284 | Ethnic neighborhood | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background | |
| 165881285 | Toponym | Place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams | |
| 165862015 | Cultural Complex | The group of traits that defines a particular culture | |
| 165881286 | Language Extinction | This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people | |
| 165862017 | Cultural Geography | The subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space | |
| 165862008 | Acculturation | The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another | |
| 165862019 | Cultural Imperialism | The dominance of one culture over another | |
| 165862020 | Cultural Trait | The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture | |
| 165862021 | Culture | A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including learned features such as language, ideology, behavior, technology, and government | |
| 165862022 | Custom | Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group | |
| 165881287 | Ethnic Cleansing | The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region by either forced migration or genocide | |
| 165862023 | Denomination | A particular religious group, usually associated with differing Protestant beliefs | |
| 165881288 | Monotheism | The worship of only one god | |
| 165862025 | Diaspora | People who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity | |
| 165862026 | Ecumene | The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans | |
| 165881289 | Universalizing Religion | Religion that seeks to untie people from all over the globe | |
| 165862009 | Animism | Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, doctrine in which the world is seen as being infused with spiritual and even supernatural powers | |
| 165881290 | Ethnic religion | Religion that is identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group and that does not seek new converts | |
| 165881291 | Language Family | A collection of many languages, all of which cam from the same original tongue long ago, that have since evolved different characteristics | |
| 165881292 | Ethnicity | Refers to a group of people who share a common identity | |
| 165881293 | Race | A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics | |
| 165862013 | Christianity | The world's most widespread religion. A monotheistic, universal religion that uses missionaries to expand its members worldwide | |
| 165881294 | Folk Culture | Refers to a constellation of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional societies in which they developed | |
| 165881295 | Literacy | The ability to read and write | |
| 165881296 | Ghetto | A segregated ethnic area within a city | |
| 165881297 | Minority | A racial or ethnic group smaller than and differing from the majority race or ethnicity in a particular area or region | |
| 165862027 | Environmental Determinism | A Doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions | |
| 165881298 | Hinduism | A cohesive and unique society, most prevalent in India that integrates spiritual beliefs with daily practices and official institutions such as the caste system | |
| 165881299 | Indo-European Family | Language family including the Germanic and Romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world's people | |
| 165862012 | Caste System | System in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth | |
| 165881300 | Islam | A monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one god, Allah, and that Muhammad was Allah's prophet. Based in the ancient city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia | |
| 165862014 | Creole | A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it | |
| 165881301 | Polytheism | The worship of more than one god | |
| 165862018 | Cultural Hearth | Locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose | |
| 165881302 | Language Group | A set of languages with relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | |
| 165881303 | Lingua Franca | An extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other more-complex languages usually used for quick and efficient communication | |
| 165881304 | Local religion | Religions that are spiritually bound to particular regions | |
| 165881305 | Global Religion | Religion in which members are numerous and widespread and their doctrines might appeal to different people from any region of the globe | |
| 165881306 | Missionary | A person of a particular faith that travels in order to recruit new members into the faith represented | |
| 165862028 | Esperanto | A constructed international language incorporating aspects of numerous linguistic traditions to create a universal means of communication | |
| 165881307 | Genocide | A premeditated effort to kill everyone form a particular ethnic group | |
| 165881308 | Multicultural | Having to do with many cultures | |
| 165881309 | Official Language | Language in which all government business occurs in a country | |
| 165881310 | Pidgin | Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet | |
| 165881311 | Pilgrimage | A journey to a place of religious importance | |
| 165881312 | Polyglot | A multilingual state | |
| 165881313 | Pop Culture | Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change | |
| 165881314 | Fundamentalism | The strict adhere to a particular doctrine | |
| 165881315 | Romance Languages | Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian | |
| 165881316 | Evangelical Religion | Religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system | |
| 165881317 | Shaman | The single person who takes on the roles of priest, counselor, and physician, and acts as a conduit to the supernatural world in a shamanist culture | |
| 165881318 | Sino-Tibetan Family | Language area that spreads through most of Southeast Asia and China and is compromised of Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Korean | |
| 165862024 | Dialect | Geographically distinct versions of a single language that very somewhat from the parent form | |
| 165881319 | Tradition | A cohesive collection of customs within a cultural group | |
| 165862010 | Artifact | Any item that represents a material aspect of culture | |
| 165881320 | Isoglosses | Geographical boundary lines where different linguistic features meet | |
| 165862016 | Cultural Extinction | Obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of these | |
| 165881321 | Transculturation | The expansion of cultural traits through diffusion, adoption, and other related processes |
