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| The exchange of cultural features that results when groups have continuous firsthand contact |
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| Key, basic, central values |
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| The viewpoint that behavior in one culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture |
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| A realm of justice vested in groups such as religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous societies |
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| Borrowing of traits between cultures |
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| The process by which a child learns his or her culture |
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| The tendency to view one's own culture as superior and to apply one's own cultural values in judging the behavior and beliefs of people raised in other cultures |
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| A social feature common to several but not all human groups |
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| A series of processes, including diffusion, migration, and acculturation, working to promote change in a world in which nations and people are increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent |
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| Members of the zoological family Hominidae that includes fossil and living humans, as well as chimps and gorillas |
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| Term used for the group that leads to humans but not to chimps and gorillas and that encompasses all the human species that have ever existed |
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| A realm of justice and morality beyond and superior to the laws and customs of particular countries, cultures, and religions |
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| The process by which humans innovate, creatively finding solutions to problems |
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| Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) |
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| The concept that a particular group may determine how indigenous knowledge and its products may be used and distributed and the level of compensation required |
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| Culture that extends beyond and across national boundaries |
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| Social traits unique to certain cultural traditions |
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| Different symbol-based patterns and traditions associated with particular groups in the same complex society |
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| Signs that have no necessary or natural connection to the things that they stand for or signify |
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| When some social feature is found in every culture, it is _________ |
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| Culture that embodies the beliefs, learned behavior patterns, values, and institutions that are shared by citizens of the same nation |
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