Culture Test
Terms
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- acculturation
- modification of a culture because of contact with another culture
- assimilation
- minority group adopts customs of prevailing culture
- continent with largest population
- asia
- contributes to ethnocentrism
- ignorance, arrogance, lack of experience
- counterculture
- opposes normal culture, way of life
- countraculture
- totally against, diliberitely opposing main culture
- cultural shock
- disorientation because of unfamiliar culture
- culture
- achievements of a civilization
- diffusion
- something cultural that is spread from one society to another
- enthnocentrism
- belief in superiority of one's own ethnic group
- folkways
- traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people
- geocentric
- thinking that the earth is the center of the universe
- jingoism
- extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy
- more
- custom regarded as essential to a community
- norms
- customary behavior, changes
- patriarchal
- rule by father
- percent of world with college education
- 1%
- pluralism
- minority groups maintain culture
- racism
- prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief
- subcultures
- form because of common interest
- terrorists
- part of contraculture
- the discovery of culture
- identified as a revolutionary discovery
- xenophobia
- strong dislike of foreigners