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Culture

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Culture   A way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs  
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Custom   a practice from the past that people continue to observe  
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Cultural diffusion   the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point.  
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Social Group   a collection of people who interact with each other and share similar characteristics and a sense of unity  
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Ethnic Group   a collection of people who share a language,history, or place of origin; a large group of people who have more in common with each other than they do with other peoples  
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Ethnocentrism   Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group  
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Dialect   a local variation of a language  
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Diversity   the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies  
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Subculture   the attitudes, beliefs, values, and behavioral habits shared by a group of people within a society, which differ from those of the society as a whole.  
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Acculturation   the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; modification or change.  
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Cultural Hearth   A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward. (ideas, cultural traits, and technologies)  
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Assimilation   the process by which minority groups gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture  
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Distance Decay   the more interaction between a country, the more likely an idea is to be diffused there compared to a country with little to no interaction  
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Popular Culture   culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.  
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