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| Acculturation | The adoption of cltural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another. |
| Cultural Complex | The group of traits that define a particular culture. |
| Cultural Extinction | Obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of the three. |
| Cultural Geography | The subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space. |
| Cultural Hearth | Locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose. |
| Cultural Imperialism | The dominance of one culture over another. |
| Cultural Trait | The specific customs that are a part of everyday life or a particular culture, such as language, religon, ethnicity, socia insitiutions, and aspects of popular culture |
| Culture | A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including learned features such as language, ideaology, behavior, technology, and goverment. |
| Custom | Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group. |
| Diaspora | People who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity. |
| Ecumene | The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans. |
| Enviromental Determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by enviromental conditions. |
| Ethnic Cleansing | The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or a region either by forced migration or genocide. |
| Ethnic Neighborhood | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background. |
| Folk Cuture | Refers to a constellation of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional societies in which they developed. |
| Genocide | A premeditated effort to kill everyone of a particular ethnic group. |
| Ghetto | A segregated ethnic area within a city. |
| Minority | A racial or ethnic group smaller than and differing from the majority race or ethnicity in a particular area or region. |
| Multicultural | Having to do with many cultures. |
| Pop Culture (or popular culture) | Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods. |
| Toponym | Place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams. |
| Tradition | A cohesive collection of customs within a cultural group. |
