Culture
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
Taboo
Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
Ethnicity
The ability to speak two languages.
Bilingualism
The doctrine of or belief in the existence of only one God.
Monotheism
How people see themselves at different scales.
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by activities of various human occupants.
Cultural Landscape
A more powerful ethnic group tries to forcibly remove a less powerful group
Ethnic Cleansing
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciaiton.
Dialect
A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
Pilgrimage
State of mind from the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place with a certain character.
Sense of Place
Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small traditional communities.
Folk Culture
Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or compromised of a local culture, which can practice its custom.
Ethnic Neighborhood
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominates.
Creole
Belief systems and philosophies practiced and traditionally passed from generation to generation among peoples within an ingenious tribe or group.
Indigenous Religions
An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
Colonialism
The principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.
Cultural Relativism
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.
Ethnocentrism
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
Lingua Franca
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.
Universalizing Religion
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
Isogloss
The likelihood or tendency for culture to become increasingly dissimilar with the passage of time.
Cultural Divergence
Pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
Ethnic Culture
The conventional spelling system of a language.
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or congregation)
Fundamentalism
Refers to the greatly accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas during the 20th century made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communications.
Time Space Convergence