Culture
Custom
Practice routinely followed by a group of people.
Ethnic Cleansing
a more powerful ethnic group tries to forcibly remove a less powerful group
Bilingualism
The ability to speak two languages
Monotheism
The doctrine of or belief in the existence of only one God.
Catholicism is an example of a ______ of Christianity
Branch
Culture Trait
A single element of normal practice in a culture (such as wearing a turban).
Ethnocentrism
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.
Creole
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language
of the people being dominated.
Branch
A large and fundamental division within a religion.
Which Language is the Most Spoken Worldwide?
Mandarin
Culture Hearth
Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture
Indigenous Communities
Comunities having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or
occurring naturally in a particular region or environment.
Orthography
The conventional spelling system of a language.
Sacred Site/Space
Place or space people infuse with religious meaning. The geographic intersection
between the divine and the immortal.
In many Jewish and Muslim communities, people are forbidden from eating pork. This is an example of a:
Taboo
Acculturation
The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of
which retains distinct culture features.
Ghetto
a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or
economic pressure.
Lingua Franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have
different native languages.
Universalizing Religion
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a
particular location.
What is Time-Space Convergence?
The greatly accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas
during the 20th century made possible by technological innovations in transportation and
communications.
Cultural Convergence
The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share
technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and
communication.
Diaspora
A forceful or voluntary dispersal of a people from their homeland to a new place. (As with the
Jews by the Romans)
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
Fundamentalism
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a
religious branch, denomination, or congregation)
What is the central idea surrounding the Core-Domain-Sphere-Model?
The area outside of the core of a culture region in which the culture is still
dominant but less intense. The zone of outer influence for a culture region. The zone of greatest
concentration or homogeneity of the culture traits that characterize a region.