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| Custom |
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| the frequent repetition of an act to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people |
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| Folk Culture |
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| culture traditionally practiced by a small homogeneous rural group living in relative isolation |
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| Habit |
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| A repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
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| Popular Culture |
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| Culture founding a large, heterogeneous society that shoves certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
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| Taboo |
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| A restriction on behavor imposed by social custom |
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| Terrior |
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| The contribution o a location's distinctive physical features to the very food tastes |
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British Received Pronunciation (BRP) |
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| The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard on the united kingdom |
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| Creole or Creolized Language |
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| A language that results from mixing of a colonized language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
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| Dialect |
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| A reginal variety of a language distingushed by vocabulary, spelling, and pronucation. |
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| Ebonics |
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| Dialect spoken by some African Americans |
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| ;Extinct Language |
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| A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
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| Franglais |
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| A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language |
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| Ideograms |
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| system of writing used in China and other East Asia countries in which even symbol represents an idea or concept |
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| Isoglass |
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| A boundary that separates regions in which difficult languages usages predominate |
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| Isolated Language |
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| A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |
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| Language |
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| A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning |
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| Language Branch |
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| A collcetion of languages related through a common ancestor that existict several thousand years ago |
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| Langauge Family |
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| collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor language between recoded history |
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| Langauge group |
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| collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display few differences in grammar |
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| Lingua Franca |
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| A language mutually understood and community used in the trade by people who have different native languages |
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| Literary Tradition |
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| A language that is written as well as spoken |
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| Official Language |
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| Language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publicationof documents |
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| Pidgin Langauge |
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| A form o speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of Lingca Franca, used to communicate |
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| Spanglish |
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| combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans |
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| Standard Language |
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| form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications |
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| Vulgar Latin |
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A form of Latin used in delay conversation by accident Romans as opposed to the standard dialect, which is used for official documents; ; |
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| Animism |
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| Belief that objects such as plants and stones have a discrete spirit and conscious life |
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| Autonomous Religion |
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; A religion that does not have a certain authority but shares idea and coperates informailly |
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| Branch |
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| A large and fundamental division within a religion |
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| Caste |
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| The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law |
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| Cosmogony |
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| A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe |
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| Denomination |
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| a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and adimistrative body |
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| Diocese |
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| basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church |
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| Ethnic Religion |
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| a religion with relatively concentrated spatial distribution -- principles are likely to be based in physical characteristics |
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| Fundamentalism |
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| literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles at religion |
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| Ghetto |
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| in the middle ages a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by -- |
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| Hierarchical Religion |
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| A religion in lunch a central authority exercisers a high degree of control |
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| Missionary |
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| An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion |
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| Monotheism |
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| Doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god |
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| Pagan |
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| A followers of polytheistic religion in ancient times |
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| Pilgrimage |
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| A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes |
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| Polytheism |
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| Beleif in or worship of one or more Gods |
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| Sect |
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| a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination |
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| Solstice |
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| Time when the sun is farthest from the equator |
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| Universalizing Religion |
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| A religion attempts to appeal to all people not just those living in a particular location |
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| Apartheid |
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| laws in South African that physically separated difficult races into affect geographic areas |
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| Balkanization |
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| Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
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| Balkanized |
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| a small area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stude states |
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| Block busting |
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| a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell houses at low prices to stop colored people from moving in |
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| Centripetal force |
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| An attiude that tends to unify people and enchance support for a state. |
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| Ethnic cleasing |
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| Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly remorces a less powerful one in order to create ethnical homogeneous region |
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| Ethnicity |
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| Identify with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits |
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| Multi-ethnic state |
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| state that contains more than one ethnicity |
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| Multinational state |
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| state that contains two or more ethnic group within traditions of self-determination |
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| Nationalism |
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| loyalty and devotion to particular nationality |
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| Nationality |
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| Identity within a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a place |
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| Nation state |
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| A state whose territory corresponds to -- occupied by a particular ethnicity as the crude birthrate minus crude death rate |
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| Race |
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| Identity with a group at people descended from a common ancestor |
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| Racism |
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| Belief that race is the primarily determination of human traits are capacities |
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| Racist |
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| A person who subscribes to beliefs of a racism |
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| Self-determination |
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| concept of that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
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| Sharecropper |
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| A person who works field rented from a land owner and pays the rent |
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| Triangular Slave Trade |
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| A practice in the 18th century in Cuhicch Europe transported slaves from Africa to Carbeias |
