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HG culture & ethnici
unit 4,5
Question | Answer |
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Acculturation | the adoption of cultural traits.- language, beliefs, etc. |
Assimilation | When people of a culture lose their differentiating cultural traits. |
Barrio | A spanish word for Neighborhood. This happens when a Hispanic neighborhood is created due to increasing Hispanic population in U.S. |
Census | the collection of personal, or legal information of population in a country. |
Commodification | giving a monetary value to a cultural item, material or nonmaterial subjects. |
Contagious Diffusion | the spread of a phenomenon by direct contact between people or objects. |
culture | the practice of cultural traits, as belief, clothing, morals, ethics, in a ceitain group. |
Cultural Appropriation | the adoption of beneficial customs and knowledge from other cultures. |
customs | the routine practice of an activity by a group of people as a daily activity. specific cultural traits. |
diffusion | the spread of a phenomenon through: Expansion, Hierarchical, Stimulus, Contagious or Relocation Diffusion. |
distance decay | the disminishing of importance and disappearance of a phenomenon due to an increase in distace from hearth. |
Dowry Death | the killing, punishment or leading to suicide of bride, due to bride in the mariage. |
Ethnic cleansing | the expulsion of an ethnic group to encourage homogenization in an area. |