Unit 3: Cultural Geography

an ethnic or immigrant group moving to a new area adopts the values and practices of the larger group that has received them, while still maintaining major elements of their own culture

• expansion diffusion
• ethnocentrism
• Taboo
• assimilation
• language family

the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.

• centripetal force
• ethnicity
• multiculturalism
• ethnic enclaves
• cultural traits

an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group

• architecture
• syncretism
• Nativist
• stimulus diffusion
• cultural divergence

a force that divides people and countries

• globalization
• centripetal force
• ethnic enclaves
• language dialect
• toponym

an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

• urbanization
• centrifugal force
• expansion diffusion
• toponym
• globalization

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

• cultural hearth
• creole language
• lingua franca
• acculturation
• pidgin language

The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person.

• hierachical diffusion
• expansion diffusion
• pidgin language
• centripetal force
• assimilation

a pidgin language that has developed a more formal structure and vocabulary that has mixed two or more separate language

• centrifugal force
• pidgin language
• ethnicity
• traditional architecture
• ethnocentrism

the tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.

• ethnic religions
• culture
• relocation diffusion
• cultural divergence
• colonialism

the result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences; the tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar with time.

• assimilation
• cultural convergence
• acculturation
• cultural relativism
• hierachical diffusion