15428558 | Cultural Preadaptation | A Complex of adaptice traits and skills possessed in advance of migration by a group, giving them survival ability and competitve advantage in occupying the new environment | |
15428559 | Cultural Simplification | The process by which immigrant ethnic groups lose certain aspects of their traditional culture in the process of settling overseas, creating a new culture that is less complex than the old | |
15428560 | Barrio | an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country | |
15428561 | Ethnic Enclave | a small area occupies by a distinctive minority culture | |
15428562 | Ethnic Neighborhood | an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background | |
15428563 | Ethnic Substrate | Regional Cultural Distinctiveness that remains following the assimilation of an ethnic homeland | |
15428564 | Ethnic Homelands | A sizeable area inhabited by an ehnic minority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region and often exercises some measure of politcal and social control over it | |
15428565 | Social Destination | The best place for social contact | |
15428566 | Transculturation | cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact | |
15428567 | assimilation | the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | |
15428568 | Acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | |
15428569 | Ethnic islands | small, usually rural and ethnically homogeneous enclaves situated within a larger and more diverse cultural context. | |
15428570 | Ethnic Group | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture | |
15428571 | Apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites | |
15428572 | Multilingual States | a state that uses many languages | |
15428573 | Race | a subset of human population whose mambers share certain distinctive, inhereted biological characteristics | |
15428574 | Ethnic Cleansing | the mass expulsion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area | |
15428575 | Racism | discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race | |
15428576 | Foodways | the many forms and practices that define how a nation shops for, cooks, and consumes its food |
AP Human Geography Quiz #4
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