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| acculturation | the process in which an individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture |
| animist religions | religions in which people believe in the presence of the spirits and forces of nature |
| culture | all features of a people's way of life |
| culture region | an area in which people have many shared cultural traits |
| culture traits | learned activities and behaviors that people often take part in |
| diffusion | a process occuring when an idea or innovation spreads |
| emigrant | people who leave a country to live somewhere else |
| ethnic group | human populations that share a common culture or ancestry |
| globalization | the process in which connections around the world increase and cultures become more alike |
| homogeneous | of the same kind |
| immigrant | people who come to a new country |
| industrialization | the process by which manufacturing based on machine power becomes widespread in an area |
| innovation | new idea that a culture accepts |
| monotheism | the belief in one God |
| nationalism | a feeling of pride and loyalty for one's country or culture group |
| polytheism | the belief in many gods |
| traditionalism | following lontime practices and opposing modern technology |
| urbanization | growth in the proportion of people living in cities |
| culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and then spread |
| archaeology | study of past culture |
| cultural diffusion | borrowing from other cultures - food, clothing, styles |
| stereotype | over-simplified, commonly held opinion of a person or group, generalization of an entire group |
| prejudice | unreasonable attitude or bias against a group or culture based on supposed characteristics |
| bias | personal, distorted judgement that influences objective perception; one sided |
| ethnocentric | believing that one's own culture is the best or better than others; negative if extreme |
| xenophobia | a fear of foreigners or things foreign |
| gregarious | likes to be with other people - we naturally want to be with people like ourselves |
| anthropology/cultural geography | study of living cultures |
| birth rate | the number of births per year for every 1,000 people |
| demographic transition | the model that uses birthrates and death rates to show changes in the population trends of a country or region |
| doubling time | the number of years it takes a population to double in size |
| Industrial Revolution | the rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power-driven machinery |
| natural increase | the growth rate of the population, the difference between birthrate and death rate |
