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Language in which all government business occurs in a country.
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Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language. |
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A journey to a place of religious importance.
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A multilingual state. |
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The worship of more than one god.
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Dynamic culture based in large, heterogenous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods.
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A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns, or genetically inherited characteristics.
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Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, french, and Romanian. |
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Shaman
Sino-Tibetan Family |
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The single person who takes on the roles of priest, counselor, and physician and acts as a conduit to the supernatural world in a shamanist culture.
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Language area that spreads through most of Southeast Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Korean. |
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Traditions that borrow from both the past and present.
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Place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams. |
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Tradition
Transculturation |
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A cohesive collection of customs within a cultural group.
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The expansion of cultural traits through diffusion, adoption, and other related processes. |
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| Religion that seeks to unite people from all over the globe. |
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a particular religious group, usually associated with differing Protestant belief systems.
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geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from the parent form. |
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people who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity.
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the proportion of the Earth inhabitated by humans. |
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Environmental Determinism
Esperanto |
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a doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.
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a constructed international auxiliary language incorporating aspects of numerous linguistic traditions to create a universal means of communication. |
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Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic Neighborhood
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the systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region either by forced migration or genocide.
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An area within a city containing members that contain the same ethnic background. |
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Ethnic Religion
Ethnicity |
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A religion that is identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group and does not seek new converts.
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Refers to a group of people that share a common identity. |
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Evangelical Religions
Folk Culture |
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religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system.
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refers to a contellation of cultural practices that form the sights, sounds, smells, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional societies in which they developed. |
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The strict adherence to a particular doctrine.
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a premeditated effort to kill everyone of a particular ethnic group. |
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a segregated ethnic area within a city.
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Religion in which members are numerous and widespread and their doctrines might appeal to different people from any region of the globe. |
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