UNIT 3 VOCAB Flashcards
Acculturation
When a minority culture changes partially to the majority culture
Assimilation
When a minority culture changes its culture to be in the majority
Appropriation
When the majority culture takes from the minority culture
Culture convergence
When different cultures become similar/cultures take part from one another. When two cultures blend to make one.
Cultural divergence
When a culture splits off to make two.
Cultural Landscape
Human activity affects the environment (built environment)
Cultural Relativism
When a tradition/habits display aspects of a specific culture. Not judging another culture by your own cultural standards.
Ethnic Cultures
A group that has similar aspects of culture from the hearth (religion, language, food, clothes, etc.)
Ethnocentrism
someone’s idea of another culture based on customs they have seen. Judging another culture by your own culture’s beliefs and standards
Expansion diffusion
an idea/innovation that spreads to other locations while still existing in the hearth
Indigenous cultures
culture relating and originating to the indigenous people of a place
Multiculturalism
multiple cultures in one place
sequent occupance
When different cultures leave their mark on the cultural landscape in the same place
Syncretism
Different beliefs/ parts of culture combine. the blending of traits from two different cultures to form a new trait.
Taboos
Ideas that are frowned upon in a certain culture
