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Cards Term Assimilation Definition The giving up of one's own ways for those of another culture. Term Beliefs Definition Assumptions about what is true, accurate, or factual. Beliefs may be false even though they are accepted as true. Term Cultural Calamity Definition Adversity that brings about change in a culture; one of four ways cultures change. Term Cultural Relativism Definition The idea that cultures vary in how they think, act, and behave as well as in what they believe and value; not the same as moral relativism Term Culture Definition beliefs, understandings, practices, and ways of interpreting experience that are shared by a number of people Term Diffusion Definition The incorporation or intergration of characteristics of one culture into another as a result of contact between the two. Diffusion is one of the four ways of culture. Term Dynamic Definition Evolving and changing over time Term Ethnocentrism Definition The tendency to regard ourselves and our way of life as superior to other people and other ways of life Term Invention Definition The creation of tools, ideas, and practices; one of four causes of culture change Term Multilingual Definition Able to speak and think in more than one language or from more than one cultural perspective Term Norms Definition Informal rules that guide how members of a group or culture think, feel, act, and interact. Norms define what is normal or appropiate in various situations. Term Participation Definition A response to cultural diversity in which people incorporate some practices, customs, and traditions of other groups into their own lives Term Resistance Definition A respose to cultural diversity that attacks the cultural practices of others or proclaims that one's own cultural traditions are surperior. Term Respect Definition A response to cultural diversity in which one values others' customs, traditions, and values, even if one does not actively incorporate them into one's own life. Term Social Communities Definition Groups of people who live within a dorminant culture yet are also member's of specific, nondorminant groups that have distinctive experiences and foster distinctive patterns of communicating Term Tolerance Definition A response to diversity in which one accepts differences, although one may not approve of or even understand them Term Understanding Definition A response to culture diversity that assumes differences are rooted in cultural teachings and that no traditions, customs, and behaviors are intrinsically more valuable than others. Term Values Definition Views of what is good, right, and important are shared by members or a particular culture.