APHG Unit 3 Terms

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Folk Culture

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Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.

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Local Culture

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A set of common experiences or customs that shapes the identity of a place and the people who live there.

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Popular Culture

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Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, western societies.

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Assimilation

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The abandonment of local culture in favor of a dominant culture.

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Acculturation

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The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.

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Syncretism

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The fusion or blending of two distinct cultural traits into a unique new hybrid trait.

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Multiculturalism

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A condition in which ethnic groups exist separately and share equally in economic and political life.

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Time-space convergence

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The idea that distance between some places is actually shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction among those places.

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Cultural Appropriation

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The process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit.

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Commodification

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Giving a price tag or value to something that was not previously perceived as having a money-related value.