Language
A regional variant of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Dialect
The religion with the most followers in the world
Christianity
A place of origin for a widespread cultural trend
Hearth
A culture that is traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas.
Folk Culture
Tangible objects created by a culture.
Artifacts
The language used by the government for conducting business and publishing documents
Official Langauge
The ethnic religion that includes Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed denominations
Judaism
The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs
Diaspora
A culture that is found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Pop Culture
The ways in which a culture behaves and organizes institutions.
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Lingua Franca
An individual who helps diffuse their religion
Missionary
A type of diffusion where innovations spread through the physical movement of people from one place to another.
Relocation Diffusion
This sport originated as a game played between villages in England in the 11th century.
Soccer
The ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge of a culture.
Mentifacts
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Creole
The religion that counts karma as one of its core beliefs
Hinduism
A type of diffusion where an innovation or concept spreads from those with more power and influence to those with less.
Hierarchical
Pop culture is doing what to the idea of defined gender roles
Diminishing
Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.
Taboo
A language that is no longer spoken or used in daily activities by anyone in the world.
Extinct Language
The religion in which followers pursue Nirvana
Buddhism
A regional variant of a language distinguished by unique vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Contagious
This type of culture (popular or cultural) typically follows the process of hierarchical diffusion
Popular
The principle that an individual human’s beliefs and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture.
Cultural Relativism