| A | B |
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| Ethnicity | Based on where you are from (country), your cultural heritage |
| Race | Your appearance based on facial features, and skin color |
| Cultural Traits | Those "things" that make up a culture |
| Material Culture Traits | Actual physical things (tangible) that society makes that "shows" culture |
| Non-Material Culture Traits | Ideas, beliefs, values, things in a culture that are important, but are (Intangible)... you cannot see or touch them |
| Taboo | Something done that violates an important cultural rule, or way of being |
| Ethnocentrism | Your inability to set aside your own culture when viewing another; thinking your culture is better |
| Cultural Relativity | Being able to look at a cultural from their perspective in order to understand it |
| Sequent Occupance | When people move into a place, they change it by adding new cultural touches; every new group makes a new change |
| Indigenous | The original people / orginal to a place |
| Sense of Place | A location that has emotion attached to it...it stands out because it has meaning |
| Placelessness | A location that has no real meaning; it looks like every other place, or is not special to a person |
| Centripetal Forces | Those things that bring people together |
| Centrifugal Forces | Things that pull apart groups of people |
| Relocation Diffusion | People packing up and moving to new locations; they take their culture with them; it weakens the cultural hearth (birthplace) |
| Cultural Hearth | The birth place of a culture |
| Expansion Diffusion | Ideas spreading out from a cultural center through trade, exploration, etc. (The cultural hearth stays strong) |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | Ideas, beliefs, material culture spreading from an important center downwards to smaller areas |
| Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion | When ideas, beliefs, and material culture start in small areas and spread outward to larger one |
| Stimulus Diffusion | When culture spreads to new places, but then changes to something newer |
| Lingua Franca | The dominant language in a place |
| Pidgin Language | A new languge developed when a dominant culture takes over another one; people adopt basic words from the new language to function |
| Creole | Started as a pidgin language, but then became the new form everyone speaks |
| Colonization | When a country sends people to settle in a new land in order to access resources and send them back to the mother country |
| Cultural Imperialism | When a dominant community imposes its culture onto another less dominant one |
| Trade | The exchanges of resources, goods, etc. between people/nations |
| Globalization | The process by which things spread around the entire world; trade; social media; etc. |
| Socially Constructed | Society/people created it; made it up |
| Time-Space Convergence | As technology improves, the time it takes to get somewhere decreases; making the world smaller |
| Cultural Convergence | When two different cultures begin to become more alike with increased interactions |
| Cultural Divergence | When a culture becomes more different that those around it; instead of blending they try to keep their culture separate |
| Assimilation | When a culture adopts a new culture's ways (either forced, or willingly) in order to fit in |
| Acculturation | When a minority culture adopts certain traits of another, but KEEPS its individual identity |
| Folk Culture | A unique culture that doesn't change; usually found in rural (country) areas |
| Rural | Country |
| Urban | City |
| Popular Culture | Culture that starts in large cities; on mass media; spreads quickly; changes quickly and can alter cultures around it |
| Language Family | The main category from which other languages are born; they share common structures |
| Dialect | A form of a language that is particular to a group or region; might have different grammar, or pronunciation; but keeps original language structure |
| Conquest Theory | The idea that cultures spread because people moved and conquered other areas |
| Agriculture Theory | The idea that as farming spread around the world, language spread too at the same rate |
| Toponymn | A place name based on a person; geographic feature; religion; etc. |
| Syncretism | The merging of two different cultures to form a new one |
| Isogloss | A language boundary; found on a map |
| Religion | An organized way in which a society worships |
| Universalizing Religion | A religion that seeks converts (people to join) and spreads |
| Ethnic Religion | A religion that does NOT seek converts, and stays in one area not spreading |
| Gendered Spaces | Places where certain genders are welcome, or are not welcome (Men's only clubs vs. Women only) |
| Homogeneous | The people are very similar to each other |
| Heterogeneous | The people are very diverse from one another |
| Monotheism | One God |
| Polytheism | Many Gods |
