Religion
The belief in the existence of only one god.
What is monotheism?
This is the term for the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.
What is the cultural landscape?
A simplified language that develops as a means of communication between speakers of different native languages.
What is a pidgin language?
The type of diffusion that occurs when people move and bring their culture with them.
What is relocation diffusion?
A group of people who share a common cultural background or ancestry.
What is an ethnic group?
A religion that actively seeks converts and is widespread.
What is a universalizing religion?
The belief that one’s own culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
The original location where a culture or innovation begins.
What is a cultural hearth?
The policy or practice of separating people based on race or ethnicity.
What is segregation?
The blending of two or more religious traditions into a new one.
What is syncretism?
When a group adopts cultural traits from another group, often while still maintaining distinct practices.
What is acculturation
A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a creole language?
Type of expansion diffusion where an idea spreads rapidly outward among a population.
What is contagious diffusion?
This term refers to the process of making a place reflect a single ethnicity, sometimes forcefully.
What is ethnic cleansing?
A religion that is tied to a specific place and group of people, often not seeking converts.
What is an ethnic religion?
This is the process by which a minority group adopts the dominant culture, often losing aspects of their own.
What is assimilation?
This is the world's most spoken language in terms of native speakers.
What is Mandarin Chinese
The cultural heath of Hinduism.
What is India?
The idea that identity is shaped by place and that people create attachments to their cultural landscape.
What is a sense of place?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
The idea that a person’s beliefs and activities should be understood based on their own culture.
What is cultural relativism?
The largest language family in the world by number of speakers.
What is Indo-European?
McDonald’s adapting its menu to suit Indian dietary preferences is an example of this concept.
What is stimulus diffusion?
A neighborhood within a city where a distinct ethnic group lives, often voluntarily.
What is an ethnic enclave?