Vocabulary Quiz 3.5-6

The attempt to reconcile or blend the beliefs and practices of various religions into one.

• Salsa

• Amalgamation

• Syncretism

• Colonialism

When a cultural or ethnic group is forcibly removed from their homeland

• creolization

• trade

• diaspora

• amalgamation

A Latino musical style blending elements from Cuban and Puerto Rican dance music.

• assimilation

• salsa

• amalgamation

• lingua franca

When a person decides to give up their old culture in order to fit into a new culture

• salsa

• assimilation

• acculturation

• amalgamation

The blending of African, European, and some Amerindian cultural elements into the unique socio-cultural systems found in the Caribbean.

• diaspora

• amalgamation

• lingua franca

• creolization

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.

• cultural divergence

• economic development

• cultural convergence

• time space convergence

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

• lingua franca

• importance of English

• modernization

• globalization

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

• cultural convergence

• lingua franca

• time-space convergence

• modernization

The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes

• technology

• time-space convergence

• cultural divergence

• economic development

A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. Also known as a bridge language, common language, or trade language.

• English

• lingua franca

• globalization

• urbanization