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3.3-3.5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cultural patterns | related sets of cultural traits and complexes that create similar behaiviors across space |
| cultural hearth | where a religion or ethnicity began |
| nationality | based on peoples connection to a particular country |
| centripetal forces | those that unify a group of people or a region |
| centrifugal forces | those that divide a group of people or region |
| sharia | the legal framework of a country derived from Islamic edicts taken from their holy book |
| blue laws | laws that restrict certain activities |
| fundamentalism | an attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religous faith |
| theocracies | countries whose governments are run by religous leaders through the use of religious laws |
| ethonocentric | they believe their own cultural group is more important and superior to other cultures |
| cultural relativism | the concept that a person's or group's beliefs, valies, norms, and practices should be understood from the perspective of the other group's culture. |
| cultural appropriation | the action of adopting traits, icons, or other elements of any culture |
| diffusion | the spread of information, ideas, behaviors, and other aspects of their hearths to wider areas |
| relocation diffusion | the spread of culture and/or cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them |
| expansion diffusion | the spread of cultural traits outward through exchange withouut migration |
| contagious diffusion | when a cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people |
| hierarchical diffusion | the spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and influence |
| reverse hierarchical diffusion | when a trait diffuses from a group of lower status to a group of higher status |
| stimulus diffusion | when an underlyingidea from a cultural hearth is adopted by another culture but the adopting group modifies or rejects one trait |
| imperialism | includes a variety of ways of influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance |
| colonialism | when people move and settle on the land of another country |
| animism | the belief that non-living objects possess spirts |
| native speakers | those who use the language learned from birth |
| lingua franca | a common language used by people who do not share the same native language |
| slang | words used informally by a segment of the population |
| pidgin language | a simplified mixture of two languages |
| creole language | a more advanced mixture of two languages |
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