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Identity of a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland.
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Ethnicity
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A language designated by a country as the one used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects.
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Official Language
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A language that is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.
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Extinct Language
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The belief that God does not exist.
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Atheism
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The coexistence of several cultures in one society, with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worthy of practice.
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Multiculturalism
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Culture that is traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas.
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Folk Culture
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A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling.
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Dialect
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Word usage boundaries, determined by data collected directly from people.
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Isogloss
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The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
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Sequent Occupance
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The belief that one’s own culture or ethnic group is superior to others; judging other groups through the lens of one’s own culture.
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Ethnocentrism
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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary.
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Language Group
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The idea that the interaction between two places decreases as the distance between them increases.
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Distance Decay
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A simplified form of language that adopts the grammar and vocabulary of a lingua franca to allow speakers of two different languages to communicate.
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Pidgin Language
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Belief that there is only one God.
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Monotheism
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A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
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Isolated Language
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Relatively small, ethnically homogenous enclaves situated within a larger and more diverse cultural context.
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Ethnic Enclave
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A group of related languages derived from Vulgar Latin (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian).
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Romance Languages
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
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Language Family
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The spread of an idea or innovation through the physical movement of people who migrate and take their ideas and innovations with them.
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Relocation Diffusion
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Belief that inanimate objects or natural events have spirits and a conscious life.
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Animism
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The reduction of the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communication and transportation technologies.
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Time-Space Compression
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The belief that nothing can be known about whether or not God exists.
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Agnosticism
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When members of a culture become less like other group members over time.
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Cultural Divergence
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A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people they colonized.
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Creole
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The process of absorbing one cultural group into another until that group can no longer be distinguished from the dominant culture.
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Assimilation
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A type of religious movement characterized by strict conformity to a religious text.
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Fundamentalism
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Diffusion where one person spreads an idea or innovation to multiple people and then those people spread it to multiple people until it uniformly affects all individuals and areas outward from the source.
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Contagious Diffusion
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The belief that the physical environment actively shapes culture.
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Environmental Determinism
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The emotions someone attaches to an area based on their experiences.
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Sense of Place
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Forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state and pull the population apart.
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Centrifugal Force
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Belief that there is more than one God.
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Polytheism
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Visible, tangible aspects of culture such as architecture, clothing, books, instruments, etc.
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Material Culture
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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.
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Sect
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When an innovation spreads but is changed by the people who adapt it.
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Stimulus Diffusion
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Invisible, intangible culture such as values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms.
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Non-Material Culture
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The belief that environmental conditions may impact culture in some ways, but people are the primary architects of culture.
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Possibilism
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A type of diffusion where an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there, while also spreading outwards.
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Expansion Diffusion
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A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom.
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Taboo
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The place where an idea or innovation originates from.
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Hearth
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Speaking only one language.
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Monolingual
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Culture found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
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Popular Culture
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When traits from two distinct cultures fuse to form a new cultural trait.
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Syncretism
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Someone who embarks on a mission to spread their religion to new people and places.
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Missionary
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The spread of an idea from one key person or node of authority/power to other people/places with less power and influence.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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When two cultures become more similar the more that they interact.
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Cultural Convergence
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Speaking more than one language.
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Multilingual
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A language of international communication.
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Lingua Franca
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Religions that attempt to appeal to all people, everywhere in the world, not just those of one culture or location.
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Universalizing Religion
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Forces or attitudes that bring people together and enhance support for the state.
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Centripetal Force
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The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a place.
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Charter Group
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The structures within the physical landscape caused by human activities.
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Cultural Landscape
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All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects.
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Culture
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The principle that an individual human’s beliefs and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture.
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Cultural Relativism
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Favoring those born in a country over immigrants.
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Nativism
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The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
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Custom
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A religion that primarily appeals to one group of people living in a particular place.
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Ethnic Religion
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When people of one group are dispersed to various locations but still maintain their heritage in their new land.
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Diaspora
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The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another, while still maintaining elements of their own culture.
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Acculturation
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The spread of businesses, products, people and ideas around the world.
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Globalization
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The process by which an innovation or idea spreads from one place to another over time.
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