Social 10-1 Unit 1 Vocabulary

The way cultures change when exposed to other cultures

• Accommodation

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

The process by which an ethnic group loses its distinct language and culture, and becomes absorbed into a majority culture

• Accommodation

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs from one generation to another

• Religion

• Tolerance

• Tradition

a policy of racial segregation maintained in South Africa from 1948 to 1991

• Apartheid

• Affirmation

• Acculturation

one culture modifying itself to fit in with the dominant culture

• Accommodation

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

the way groups of people live - created over time and shared by a group with a generally shared sets of values and beliefs.

• Diversity

• Cultural Revitalization

• Culture

a personal declaration that one’s own culture or identity has value and validity

• Apartheid

• Affirmation

• Acculturation

the quality of being different

• Diversity

• Cultural Revitalization

• Culture

the speech habits peculiar to a particular person

• Francophone

• Idiolect

• Mother Tongue

a rebirth or newfound interest and growth in a specific culture

• Diversity

• Cultural Revitalization

• Culture