APHuG Unit 3 Vocabulary

the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged through the eyes of another culture

• cultural relativism

• custom

• ethnocentrism

• ethnicity

something that a group of people does repeatedly that becomes part of their culture (for example, bowing instead of shaking hands in Japan)

• cultural relativism

• custom

• ethnocentrism

• ethnicity

judging people or traditions based on your own cultural standards

• cultural relativism

• custom

• ethnocentrism

• ethnicity

a group of people (often of the same race) who have a shared culture; the cultural component of race

• cultural relativism

• custom

• ethnocentrism

• ethnicity

a rigid set of social classes that provides privileges for the higher classes and limits on the lower classes - a person is born in a caste and castes only change upon reincarnation

• Indigenous people

• diaspora

• caste system

• sequent occupance

the original settlers of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled the area more recently

• Indigenous people

• diaspora

• folk culture

• sequent occupance

the idea that the current cultural landscape is a combination of all the societies who lived there previously and the changes each group made

• sense of place

• diaspora

• cultural convergence

• sequent occupance

a strong feeling of identity that is deeply felt by inhabitants and visitors of a location

• sense of place

• diaspora

• cultural convergence

• sequent occupance

a language that began as a combination of two other languages and is spoken as the primary language of a group of people

• creole or creolized language

• lingua france

• dialect

• language family

the scattering a of people from their homeland (especially the Jews from the Holy Land)

• cultural divergence

• diaspora

• cultural convergence

• sequent occupance