Culture and Beliefs Flashcards
Assimilation
When an ethnic group adopts the host culture as their own.
Acculturation
Where members of one cultural group adopt the culture and beliefs of another group.
Asylum seeker
A person classed as a refugee fleeing persecution.
Attitudes
Positive or negative feelings towards objects or people.
Beliefs
A set of ideas about the world that form the basis of a religion or other way of making sense of life.
Colonisation
When one country goes to another country and takes over important aspects of its culture.
Culture
A shared set of beliefs, values, attitudes, norms, customs, traditions and practices.
Customs
The long-established habits of a society.
Culture shock
When newly arrived immigrants find the host country’s culture very different.
Diffusion
The idea of something spreading out gradually.
Ethnic group
A group with a distinct culture that can be traced through history to a specific location.
Eugenics
The study of ways to improve human inheritance.
Feral child
A human child who has lived away from human contact or brought up with little experience or very poor care.
Gender identity
All of the attributes and characteristics that are associated with belonging to one or the other of the sexes.
Gene
The basic unit of heredity.
Genetic inheritance
The result of a transfer of genes from a parent to offspring.
Globalisation
Where activities in one part of the world have consequences for people in other parts of the world.
Morals
Guidance on what is right and wrong.
Immigration
The movement of people into an area across a national boundary.
Integration
When two cultures combine and live alongside each other in harmony.
Issue
Something about which people have different views.
Identity-giving
An act or process that defines part of a person’s indentity.
Norms
Unwritten rules defining the appropriate pattern of behaviour.
Nurture
The effect of personal experiences from the womb to adulthood.
