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11499205752	Language Tree	a representation of the relationships of languages to each other	0
11936265719	Culture	Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.	1
11936276128	cultural trait	The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture.	2
11936286476	Sacred Sites	A location that is held by a certain religion to be holy and worthy of reverence, such as a temple.	3
11936293728	Ethnic Neighborhood	an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background	4
11936298680	Expansion Diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.	5
11936304423	Contagious Diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.	6
11936315844	Hierarchical Diffusion	The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places	7
11936321157	Stimulus Diffusion	The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.	8
11936324380	relocation diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.	9
11936328801	language families	large groups of languages having similar roots	10
11936356819	Language Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.	11
11936361240	languages	human speech, spoken or written	12
11936367363	gender roles	sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female	13
11936376506	Cultural Hearth	Locations on Earth's surface where specific cultures first arose.	14
11936383946	lingua franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	15
11936392100	Colonialism	Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.	16
11936392101	Imperialism	A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.	17
11936401079	Acculturation	(n.) the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend	18
11936404936	Assimilation	interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas	19
11936409940	Multiculturalism	A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions	20
11936415340	ethnic religion	A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.	21
11936427445	Universalizing Religion	A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.	22
11936431985	cultural landscape	Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.	23
11936436733	sense of place	State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.	24
11936442324	Placelessness	the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next	25
11936449027	Reionalism	n international relations, regionalism is the expression of a common sense of identity and purpose combined with the creation and implementation of institutions that express a particular identity and shape collective action within a geographical region.	26