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11819122340	Assimilation	the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another	0
11819126043	Cultural core	idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties	1
11819134460	cultural landscape	the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape	2
11819136863	Glocalization	the practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.	3
11819139528	built environment	The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings.	4
11819143736	Folk Culture	Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.	5
11819146184	cultural realm	the entire region that displays the characteristics of a culture	6
11819176602	material culture	the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people	7
11819180856	popular culture	Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.	8
11819183076	Isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	9
11819185618	lingua franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	10
11819190378	Pidgin	A simplified form of speech developed from two or more languages	11
11819193121	toponymy	the study of place names	12
11819196059	Animism	Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.	13
11819200492	Confucianism	a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius.	14
11819204906	ethnic religion	a religion that is particular to one culturally distinct group of people	15
11819210008	Fundamentalism	a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.	16
11819219046	Monotheism	Belief in one God	17
11819219047	Polytheism	Belief in many gods	18
11819223892	Religious architectural styles	styles of architecture created by religions	19
11819226471	sacred space	place or space people infuse with religious meaning	20
11819230576	Secularism	A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.	21
11819233376	Shamanism	finding spirits within objects and listening too them	22
11819246769	Sharia Law	the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed	23
11819252464	Zoroastrianism	One of the first monotheistic religions, particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.	24
11819260473	Cultural shatterbelt	A politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict	25
11819263372	race	A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics.	26
11819265585	Ethnocentrism	Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.	27
11819268230	gender gap	Difference in political views between men and women	28
11819271067	longevity gap	the gap between the life expectancy of men and women	29