Acculturation Flashcards

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Acculturation

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The adoption of cultural traits by one group under the influence of another, while still maintaining elements of their own culture.

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Example of Acculturation

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Immigrant children may dress or talk like their peers at school but might also speak their first language and eat traditional foods at home.

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Agnosticism

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The belief that nothing can be known about whether or not God exists.

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Atheism

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The belief that God does not exist.

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Questioning Religious Beliefs

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Represents questioning or uncertainty about religious beliefs.

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Centrifugal Force

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Forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state and pull the population apart. Examples include differing languages, religions or ethnicities, and unequal representation of different culture groups in government.

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Centripetal Force

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Forces or attitudes that bring people together and enhance support for the state.

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Examples of Centripetal Forces

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Shared history, shared language, sense of nationalism, etc.

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Diagram illustrating the spread of contagious diffusion

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Visual representation of how an idea or innovation spreads from one person to many, expanding outward.

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Creole

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A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people they colonized.