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Culture Vocabulary

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Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, games, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the art.

Simply a way of life. It is the reason behind peoples beliefs and behaviors. Charateristics of Culture: 1. Culture is learned 2. Culture is UNIFYING 3. Culture is constantly changing Cultures are constantly changing because.

Cultural Landscapes
Things that create and define cultural identity

Land: culture develops here People: central to culture Language: Both spoken word and body language Institutions and Beliefs: Schools, government buildings, places of worship, shopping areas, neighborhoods Technology: skills and tools (ex. Supermarkets, modes of communication and travel) Religion:

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The pattern of knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and traits that characterize/krktraz/ a group of people

Acculturation /kltren/
Occurs when one culture changes a great deal through the meeting of another culture.

Ethnocentric [ensentrk]
Ethno- cultural group Centric- the center

Person that believes his/her culture is the best or better than others. Bad if extreme, good if it establishes self pride.

Stereotype [stertap]
Over simplified, commonly held opinion of a person or group. Often a composite [kmpzt] oftraits[tret] Generalizations about an entire group.
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Personal, distorted /dsttd/ judgment that influences objective perception One sided

Xenophobia [zenfb]
A fear of foreigners or things foreign

BODY LANGUAGE gestures, facial expressions, and body postures that people use to communicate along with or instead of speech. Body language is also referred to as kinesics . Waving good-bye with a hand and arm or winking one eye to indicate a shared secret are examples of body language in North America. Body language is learned as part of a culture. http://judy-vernon-4th-year-honors-project.blogspot.com/2012/09/studying-bodylaunguage.html CULTURE SHOCK a feeling of confusion, distress, and sometimes depression that can result from the psychological stress that commonly occurs during the first weeks or months of a total cultural emersion in an alien society. Until the new culture becomes familiar and comfortable, it is common to have difficulty in communicating and to make frustrating mistakes. This is usually compounded by feelings of homesickness. These feelings can be emotionally debilitating. However, culture shock eventually passes for most people. TRIBALISM a profound loyalty to one's tribe or ethnic group and a rejection of others. Those who promote tribalism generally believe that globalism is a threat that must be overcome. A pattern of establishing ethnically "pure" nations through aggressive "ethnic cleansing" occurred in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990's. Similar attempts to carve out tribal based nations have occurred in the former republics of the Soviet Union and in a number of African nations.

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Globalization: Globalization in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. This process is a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces.Globalization is often used to refer to economic globalization, that is, integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology. Stereotype: A generalized perception of first impressions. Stereotypes, therefore, can instigate prejudice and false assumptions about entire groups of people, including the members of different ethnic groups, social classes, religious orders, the opposite sex, etc. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image, based on the assumption that there are attributes that members of the "other group" have in common.