Culture and Diversity

To absorb and integrate people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture.

• assimilation

• acculturation

• acceptance

• cultural innovation

Evaluating other people and cultures according to one's own culture.

• majority

• assimilation

• ethnic group

• ethnocentrism

People who share similar culture traits.

• minority

• culture group

• cultural diversity

• cultural diffusion

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.

• cultural diversity

• cultural diffusion

• cultural innovation

• minority

A group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or a combination of such characteristics.

• ethnic group

• cultural innovation

• cultural similarities

• culture trait

The set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people share.

• culture

• majority

• cultural innovation

• cultural diversity

Aspects, traits, or features that different cultures have in common.

• cultural diversity

• cultural similarities

• cultural diffusion

• minority

My culture is better than yours is ethnocentrism.

• true

• false

An area where people live together, but have many different languages, races, and religions is cultural diversity

• false

• true

Which term refers to the belief that one's own culture is superior to others?

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural assimilation

• Cultural diversity