5487748184 | Abrahamic faiths | Judaism Christanity and Islam are practiced | 0 | |
5487748185 | Acculturation | The modification of he social patterns, traits, or structures of one group of society by contact with those of another | 1 | |
5487748186 | Artifact | An object made by human beings: often refers to a primitive tool | 2 | |
5487748187 | Americanization | Americanizing culture | 3 | |
5487748188 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer effect) in South America that physically separate different races into different geographic areas | 4 | |
5487748189 | Assimilation | Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture | 5 | |
5487748190 | Creole | Formalized pidgin language | 6 | |
5487748191 | Cultural adaptation | New people adapt to the cultural of the previously existing people | 7 | |
5487748192 | Cultural convergence | The contact and interaction of one cultural with another | 8 | |
5487748193 | Cultural hearth | A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward | 9 | |
5487748194 | cultural perception | The concept that people of different cultures will differently observe and interpret their environment and make different decisions about its nature | 10 | |
5487748195 | Custom | The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristics of the group of people performing the act | 11 | |
5487748196 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation | 12 | |
5487748197 | Relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another | 13 | |
5487748198 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process | 14 | |
5487748199 | Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other person or places | 15 | |
5487748200 | Stimulus diffusion | Underlying principle of a characteristics spreads although characteristics failed | 16 | |
5487748201 | Contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout | 17 | |
5487748202 | Ethnic cleansing | Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removed a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region | 18 | |
5487748203 | Ethnic religions | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principal are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated | 19 | |
5487748204 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions | 20 | |
5487748205 | Ethnonationalism | nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry | 21 | |
5487748206 | Folk culture | Cultural traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in a relative isolation from other groups | 22 | |
5487748207 | Habit | A repetitive act performed by a particular individual | 23 | |
5487748208 | Indigenous peoples | A person who occupy a region at the time of its contact with colonial powers or the outside world | 24 | |
5487748209 | Isogloss | A boundary that separates region in which different language usages predominate | 25 | |
5487748210 | Language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning | 26 | |
5487748211 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 27 | |
5487748212 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native language | 28 | |
5487748213 | Material culture | The physical manifestations of human activities | 29 | |
5487748214 | Monotheistic | Belief that only one God | 30 | |
5487748215 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents | 31 | |
5487748216 | Pidgin | A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua Franca, used for communication among speakers of two different languages | 32 | |
5487748217 | Polytheistic | Th belief in or worship of more than one God | 33 | |
5487748218 | Popular culture | Cultural found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics | 34 | |
5487748219 | Secularization | Religion lose social and cultural | 35 | |
5487748220 | Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom | 36 | |
5487748221 | Universalizing religions | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location | 37 | |
5487748222 | Vernacular regions | An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity | 38 |
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