WorGeoUnit4 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Culture | A way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs |
Custom | a practice from the past that people continue to observe |
Cultural diffusion | the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point. |
Social Group | a collection of people who interact with each other and share similar characteristics and a sense of unity |
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 |
Ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group |
Dialect | a local variation of a language |
Diversity | the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies |
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. |
Acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; modification or change. |
Cultural Hearth | A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward. (ideas, cultural traits, and technologies) |
Assimilation | the process by which minority groups gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture |
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 |
Popular Culture | culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
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