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Unit 3 Vocab Part 2
3.5, 3.6, 3.8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Creolization | A pidgin language that develops into a new combined language with native speakers. Frequently developed through settings of colonization or slavery. |
| Lingua Franca | A common language used by speakers of two different languages for communication. Usually for business, trade, commerce or in popular culture. |
| Colonialism | When a powerful country establishes settlements in a less powerful country for economic and/or political gain. |
| Imperialism | The dominance of one country over another country through diplomacy or force. |
| Neocolonialism | “New” colonialism - term to describe how in more modern times, imperialism can be pursued through the assertion of political, economic and cultural influence rather than occupation. |
| Globalization | Trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world without regard to borders or barriers. |
| Time-Space Convergence | The shrinking of the world due to improvements in communication and transportation technologies. |
| Cultural Convergence | The process of two or more cultures coming into contact with each other and adopting each other’s traits to become more alike. |
| Cultural Divergence | Cultures become LESS alike due to both cultural and physical barriers. The process of a culture restricting contact with other cultures in an attempt to retain its originality. Separating/distinguishing from mainstream. |
| Acculteration | When an ethnic or immigrant group moving to a new area, adopts some traits of the larger group that has received them, while still maintaining major elements of their own culture. |
| Assimilation | When one culture abandons their original culture and adopts another culture. Sometimes by choice, sometimes by force. |
| Syncretism | When two culture’s traits blend together and form a new cultural trait. This can happen through contact between peoples such as imperialism, military conquest, immigration or intermarriage. |
| Multicultralism | The acceptance and tolerance of many different cultures which exist in close proximity to one another. Openness, acceptance, diversity. |
| Nativism | Protecting the interests of native-born citizens or established inhabitants of a country from those who immigrate. |
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