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| The giving up of one's own ways for those of another culture. |
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| Assumptions about what is true, accurate, or factual. Beliefs may be false even though they are accepted as true. |
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| Adversity that brings about change in a culture; one of four ways cultures change. |
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| 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 |
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| beliefs, understandings, practices, and ways of interpreting experience that are shared by a number of people |
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| 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. |
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| Evolving and changing over time |
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| The tendency to regard ourselves and our way of life as superior to other people and other ways of life |
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| The creation of tools, ideas, and practices; one of four causes of culture change |
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| Able to speak and think in more than one language or from more than one cultural perspective |
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| 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. |
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| A response to cultural diversity in which people incorporate some practices, customs, and traditions of other groups into their own lives |
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| A respose to cultural diversity that attacks the cultural practices of others or proclaims that one's own cultural traditions are surperior. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| A response to diversity in which one accepts differences, although one may not approve of or even understand them |
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| 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. |
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| Views of what is good, right, and important are shared by members or a particular culture. |
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