Vocabulary
Bilingualism
The ability to speak two or more languages fluently.
Defined by the physical characteristics of a group, especially skin color.
Race
Secular
Less influenced or controlled by religion.
The imprisonment of the Jewish people during WW2.
Genocide
Someone who is fluent in more than two languages.
Polyglot
Colonialism
The act of forcefully controlling a foreign territory.
When an ethnic group blends in with the host culture, losing its own.
Assimilation
Subculture
A group of people with distinct norms, values, and material practices that differentiate them from the dominating culture.
A plane making a 5 hour boat trip take 1.5 hours.
Time-Space Convergence
A unifying force that can unify a community.
Ethnicity
Imperialism
The motivating impulse to control greater amounts of territory.
The blending of beliefs, ideas, and traits.
Syncretism
Sense of Place
The distinctive feeling of a place or a persons perception of a place.
The Creek language become less spoken.
Endangered Language.
When an ethnic or immigrant group adapts enough of the ways of a host society to be able to function economically/socially.
Acculturation
Empire
A sovereign political entity that seeks to expand beyond their original point and control more territory.
Evaluating one person's culture according to the preconceptions of another culture.
Ethnocentism
Centripetal Force
American English vs Australian English
Dialect
The feeling resulting from the standardization of the built environment, causing the distinctiveness of an area to be lost.
Placelessness
Lingua Franca
A language of communications hat is spoken across a wide area where it is not the mother tongue.
The fact that many places have been controlled by by a variety of groups over a period of time.
Sequent Occupancy
Centrifugal Force
A force that threatens the cohesion of a neighborhood, society, or country.
French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugal languages all stemming from Latin.
Language Family.
The idea that a person's belief and practices should be understood on that person's own culture.
Cultural Relativism