Culture Vocab

Locations on Earth's surface where specific cultures first arose. (Where it all began)

• Cultural War
• Sterotype
• Cultural Hearth

to absorb fully or make one's own; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully

• Stereotype
• Assimilate
• Culture Shock

The broadest level in which cultural groups are defined: religion, nationality, and ethnic heritage.

• Cultural Institutions
• Cultural War
• Hearth

clashes within mainstream society over the values and norms that should be upheld

• Cultural War
• Stereotype
• Language

our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

• Language
• Assimilate
• Culture Shock

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

• Cultural war
• Assimilate
• Ethnocentrism

Exchange of goods and services

• Language
• Travel
• Trade

relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence

• Multicultural
• Philosophical
• Language

Having to do with MANY cultures

• Assimilate
• Travel
• Multicultural

Migrating to a new location

• Culture
• Architechture
• Immigration