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Unit 3 Culture Vocab
Unit 3 Vocab AP Human Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cultural landscape | The visible reflection of a place's culture. |
| Cultural Appropriation | Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission |
| Placelessness | The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next. |
| Sense of Place | The emotions someone attaches to an area based on their experiences |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |
| Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle. |
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
| Ethnocentrism | Judging another culture based on the standard of one's own culture, often leading to racism. |
| Cultural Relativism | Understanding a culture on its own terms rather than judging it by the standards or customs of one's own culture |
| Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. |
| Pidgin Language | A form of language that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages. |
| Creolization/Creole Language | Evolved pidgin that has become a primary language of a group. |
| Isogloss | A geographic boundary where a particular linguistic feature (dialect, word, etc) is found. |
| Universalizing Religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. |
| Ethnic Religion | An ethnic religion which appeals primarily to one ethnic or cultural group, or the people of a specific region. |
| Sequent Occupancy | The notion that consecutive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the following cultural landscape |
| Acculturation | When an ethnic/immigrant group moving to new area adopts values and practices of the larger group that has received them, while STILL MAINTAINING major elements of their own culture |
| Assimilation | Process by which a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture |
| Syncretism | Blending of two cultural traits into one new trait |
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