Introduction to Cultural Geography

when an individual or group adopts behaviors from another culture

• acculturation

• assimilation

• ethnocentricism

• ethnic diversity

the spread of a cultural trait or trend from one place to another

• cultural diffusion

• acculturation

• cultural diversity

• proculutration

new ideas that are introduced and become part of a culture

• cultural innovation

• cultural diffusion

• cultural diversion

• cultural region

different cultures blending together becoming more similar

• globalization

• cultural diversity

• cultural phenomenon

• cultural region

the social process of absorbing one cultural group into another

• assimilation

• cultural adaptivity

• cultural diffusion

• acculturation

movement to return to the foundations of the faith and influence state policy

• fundamentalism

• cultural theology

• cultural reversion

• proactivism

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular culture

• stereotype

• prototype

• custom

• cultural trait

following longtime practices and opposing many modern technologies and ideas

• traditionalism

• fundamentalism

• cultural traits

• cultural region

Americans adopting the Christmas Tree as part of their customs and heritage is an example of...

• cultural innovation

• assimilation

• acculturation

• cultural diversity

Native Americans wearing business suits to a town meeting...

• acculturation

• cultural diffusion

• ethnic diversity

• globalization