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show shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society  
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show is a characteristic of human action that's acquired by people socially and transmitted via various modes of communication.  
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show the art or science of building  
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show practice of assessing a culture by it's own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one's own culture .  
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ethnocentrist(ism)   show
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cultural landscape   show
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show relating to language or linguistics  
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show notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape  
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show traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places.  
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postmodern architecture   show
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show identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.  
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gender   show
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show an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background / a neighborhood that may be in one location but serves predominantly one ethnicity  
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show communities that live within, or are attached to, geographically distinct traditional habitats or ancestral territories, and who identify themselves as being part of a distinct cultural group  
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show state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.  
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show a collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value  
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show an attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state.  
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centrifugal force   show
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relocation diffusion   show
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show when innovations spread to new places while staying strong in their original locations  
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show Occurs when numerous places or people near the point of origin become adopters  
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show Occurs when the diffusion innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power or high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern.  
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show Occurs when the innovative idea diffuses from its hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters.  
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show The process in which two or more languages converge and form a new language  
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show a language that combines simple words from multiple languages so that people who need to understand one another  
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show when a more powerful country attempts to assert its power and influence over a weaker country.  
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show Forced control of a territory already occupied.  
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trade   show
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small-scale process   show
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large-scale process   show
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Urbanization   show
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show The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact.  
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Time-Space convergence   show
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cultural convergence   show
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show the restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences.  
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show collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.  
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show regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.  
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cultural hearth   show
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show family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects  
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show the name by which a geographical place is known.  
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universalizing religion   show
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show a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as embodied in the New Testament, emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior.  
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show the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.  
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show teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases  
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show the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam.  
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ethnic religion   show
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show ove of the oldest religions in the modern world, dating back over 4000 years, and origination in the Indus River Valley  
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judaism   show
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show the term used to describe the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society. It usually occurs when one society is controlled, either politically, economically, socially, or all of these, by another society.  
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show the process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture  
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syncretism   show
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multiculturalism   show
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