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| 8941422415 | Cultural Appropriation | when non-cultural members privatize cultural knowledge for personal gain |  | 0 |
| 8941422416 | Material Culture | physical manifestation of human activities |  | 1 |
| 8941422417 | Nonmaterial Culture | ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people's behavior |  | 2 |
| 8941422418 | Placelessness | loss of uniqueness of place; localities look like the next |  | 3 |
| 8941422419 | Survey Systems | systems used to collect data |  | 4 |
| 8941422420 | Acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture |  | 5 |
| 8941422421 | Adaptation | new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people | 6 | |
| 8941422422 | Assimilation | when a group of people acquires characteristics of another group |  | 7 |
| 8941422423 | Cultural Convergence | the tendency for cultures to become more alike by improved transportation and communication |  | 8 |
| 8941422424 | Cultural Divergence | separation of cultures through less interaction |  | 9 |
| 8941422425 | Culture Complex | the group of traits that defines a particular culture; cultural traits are interrelated | 10 | |
| 8941422426 | Cultural Realm | the entire region that displays the characteristics of a culture |  | 11 |
| 8941422427 | Culture Regions | a portion of earth occupied by a population sharing distinctive cultural characteristics |  | 12 |
| 8941422428 | Diffusion | the movement of ideas, notions, and innovations |  | 13 |
| 8941422429 | Expansion Diffusion | when a trend is spread outward from its heart (types: contagious, hierarchical, stimulus) |  | 14 |
| 8941422430 | Relocation Diffusion | spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another |  | 15 |
| 8941422431 | Global-Local Continuum | what happens at the global scale directly affects what happens locally and vice-versa | 16 | |
| 8941422432 | Innovation Adoption | study of how, why, and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture. |  | 17 |
| 8941422433 | Cultural Shatter-Belt | an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values |  | 18 |
| 8941422434 | Ethnic Cleansing | systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region by either forced migration or genocide | 19 | |
| 8941422435 | Ethnic Homeland | a sizable area inhabited by an ethnic majority that exhibits strong attachment to the region |  | 20 |
| 8941422436 | Ethnic Neighborhood | a (usually urban) neighborhood where a local culture can practice its customs |  | 21 |
| 8941422437 | Segregation | the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country or region |  | 22 |
| 8941422438 | Dowry Death | death of women by murder or suicide resulting from her husband or inlaw's efforts to increase dowry |  | 23 |
| 8941422439 | Enfranchisement | to admit to citizenship; right of voting |  | 24 |
| 8941422440 | Gender Gap | a measurable difference between the behaviors of men and women |  | 25 |
| 8941422441 | Infanticide | the murder of infants | 26 | |
| 8941422442 | Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) | annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy related causes per 100,000 live births | 27 | |
| 8941422443 | Creole | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people / a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |  | 28 |
| 8941422444 | Dialect | local or regional characteristics of a language |  | 29 |
| 8941422445 | Isogloss | a geographical boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs |  | 30 |
| 8941422446 | Language Family | a group of languages descended from a single ancestral language | 31 | |
| 8941422447 | Language Group | a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics | 32 | |
| 8941422448 | Lingua Franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for trade and commerce |  | 33 |
| 8941422449 | Monolingual | able to speak only one language |  | 34 |
| 8941422450 | Bilingual | able to speak two languages |  | 35 |
| 8941422451 | Multilingual | able to speak several languages |  | 36 |
| 8941422452 | Official Language | a language a government designates for instruction, government, courts, etc. |  | 37 |
| 8941422453 | Pidgin | when two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary |  | 38 |
| 8941422454 | Protolanguage | an assumed, reconstructed, or recorded ancestral language |  | 39 |
| 8941422455 | Toponym | a place's name |  | 40 |
| 8941422456 | Animism | the belief that inanimate objects possess souls |  | 41 |
| 8941422457 | Ethnic Religion | a religion that is particular to one culturally distinct group of people |  | 42 |
| 8941422458 | Fundamentalism | the interpretation of every word in the sacred text as literal truth |  | 43 |
| 8941422459 | Geomancy (feng shui) | Chinese art and science of the placement and orientation of tombs, dwellings, buildings, and cities |  | 44 |
| 8941422460 | Interfaith Boundaries | boundaries between the world's major faiths |  | 45 |
| 8941422461 | Intrafaith Boundaries | boundaries within a single major faith |  | 46 |
| 8941422462 | Monotheism | belief in a single God |  | 47 |
| 8941422463 | Polytheism | belief in multiple gods |  | 48 |
| 8941422464 | Pilgrimage | religious journey to holy land |  | 49 |
| 8941422465 | Reincarnation | the idea that after this life you will come back as a plant, animal, or human |  | 50 |
| 8941422466 | Sacred Space | place or space people infuse with religious meaning |  | 51 |
| 8941422467 | Shamanism | community faith in traditional societies in which people follow their shaman (a person that can access the spirit world) | 52 | |
| 8941422468 | Secularism | the emphasis on the here-and-now rather than on the spiritual and otherworldly; view that religion need not be the center of human affairs |  | 53 |
| 8941422469 | Sharia Law | the system of Islamic law based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Qu'ran |  | 54 |
| 8941422470 | Sunni | a Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam | 55 | |
| 8941422471 | Shia | Muslims who thought that only Muhammad's descendants could become caliphs | 56 | |
| 8941422472 | Syncretism | the development of a new form of culture trait by the fusion of two or more parental elements | 57 | |
| 8941422473 | Theocracy | a state whose government is under the control of a "divinely guided" ruler or rulers | 58 | |
| 8941422474 | Universalizing | a belief system that espouses the idea that there is one true religion that is universal in scope |  | 59 |
