TTO3 Ch.1 Cultures 1.1. and 1.2.

A collection of customs and (unwritten) social laws of a group of people.

The most important characteristics of a culture, like religion, language and also values and standards.

A collection of the things people find important (values) and the rules of behaviour, by which they live up to these values (standards).

An area in which you find people with about the same cultural elements.

A group of related languages that have grown from the same ancestral language.

The process by which cultural elements spread across areas.

A colony is a settlement in a foreign area.

The diffusion of European cultural elements across the globe.

The diffusion of North American cultural elements across the globe.

The process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected.