APHUG Unit 3 Vocabulary Review

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Taboos are ________; behaviors discouraged by a culture.

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forbidden

Front

Popular culture includes cultural traits such as ________, music, movies, type of businesses that spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups.

Back

clothing

Front

Cultural landscape refers to the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape; physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the ________.

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landscape

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Placelessness is the replacement of local variety with a homogeneous and standardized landscape; the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next; strip malls - everything looks the ________.

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same

Front

Universal religion is a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those who live in a particular location; accepts or even seeks out converts; not always concentrated in a single place, but often distributed globally. Examples include Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, ________.

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Sikhism

Front

Lingua franca is a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and ________.

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commerce

Front

Cultural complex is a related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating ________.

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utensils

Front

Stimulus diffusion is a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another ________.

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place

Front

Assimilation is the adoption of social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another (usually the dominant) while simultaneously limiting or ________.

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elimination

Front

Isoglosses are a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages ________.

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predominate