Unit 3 Key terms

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Across
  1. 2. an aspect of a society that unites people and brings them together
  2. 4. An approach to understanding other cultures that seeks to understand individuals and cultures from a wider perspective of cultural logic
  3. 7. A set of policies that promote the active participation and inclusion of minority groups in national histories, national policies, and cultural institutions with the goal of embracing difference within a society
  4. 12. The linguistic process where languages converge and create new languages and forms of communication
  5. 13. Occurs when an ethnic or immigrant group adopts enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
  6. 14. a culture separates or goes in a different direction
  7. 16. Intangible elements of culture including a wide range of beliefs, values, myths, and symbolic meanings passed from generation to generation within a given society.
Down
  1. 1. the physical, visible objects made and used by members of a cultural group; includes buildings, furniture, clothing, food, artwork, and musical instruments.
  2. 3. The phenomenon whereby the introduction of new transportation technologies progressively reduce the time it takes to travel between places.
  3. 5. A local culture that is no longer the dominant ethnic group within its traditional home-land because of migration, colonization, or political marginalization.
  4. 6. A language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area where it is not a mother tongue
  5. 8. Occurs when an ethnic or immigrant group blends in with host culture and loses many culturally distinctive traits
  6. 9. Heterogenous culture that is more influenced by key urban areas and quick to adapt new technologies; the opposite of a local culture
  7. 10. an approach to understanding other cultures that evaluates them form the perspective of the observers culture.
  8. 11. The blending of beliefs,ideas,practices and traits especially in a religious context
  9. 12. a single aspect of a given culture or society
  10. 15. aspects of a society that divide a group of people and push them apart