Visible imprint of human activity on the environment, reflecting cultural values and beliefs.

Creates emotional connection to a location, leading to a greater sense of stability and security.

Loss of unique identity in a location, resulting in standardized and uninspiring environments.

Can lead to the creation of new, syncretic cultures, but also threatens local cultures by promoting a globally mainstream culture.

Cultural norms and expectations often define the roles and behaviors of men and women within a society, influencing dress, employment, and relationships.

Spread of culture from powerful or influential people or places to others.

Rapid, widespread diffusion of culture through a population.

Spread of an idea or innovation that is adapted to local conditions.

Acculturation involves cultural exchange and blending, while assimilation involves a minority group adopting the dominant group's culture and abandoning their own.

Multiculturalism seeks to represent all cultures equally, ensuring harmony and preventing the loss of cultural diversity caused by assimilation.

Causes: Advances in communication, transportation, and technology. Effects: Creation of new cultures, threat to local cultures, cultural exchange.

Causes: Unique history, cultural identity, natural environment. Effects: Community connection, stability, security.

Causes: Rapid social change, economic development, loss of tradition. Effects: Lack of unique identity, standardized environments, discouragement from living in a location.

Causes: Migration of people. Effects: Spread of cultural practices to new locations.

Causes: Cultural influence. Effects: Spread of cultural traits without movement of people.

Causes: Contact between different cultures. Effects: Exchange of ideas, behaviors, and practices; blending of cultures.

Causes: Contact between a minority group and a dominant culture. Effects: Minority group adopts the dominant culture, abandoning their own.

Causes: Cultural and social constructions. Effects: Influence on dress, behavior, employment, education, and relationships.

Causes: Increased communication, technology. Effects: Pressure on lesser-used languages, dominance of lingua francas.

Causes: Colonization, trade, migration. Effects: Spread of major religions, potential loss of followers due to globalization.

Shared customs, beliefs, laws, and traditions of a group of people.

Visible marks of culture on the environment, showing how a community's ideas shape the physical world.

Emotional connection people have to a specific location; feeling of belonging and attachment.

When a community lacks a unique identity and looks the same as other similar places.

Increasing interconnectedness of the world's economies, cultures, and populations.

Spread of culture through the movement of people.

Spread of culture from one place to another without the movement of people.

Cultural change that occurs when different cultures come into contact, involving the exchange of ideas and practices.

Process by which a minority group adopts the practices and values of the dominant group, often abandoning their own culture.

Movement that seeks to represent all cultures equally and ensure that all people can live in harmony.