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.

Migration of people from one place to another, bringing their cultural practices with them.

Innovation or trend starts in a major city or with influential people, then spreads to other areas and social classes.

Rapid and widespread spread of a cultural element through a population, similar to the spread of a disease.

An idea spreads, but is adapted or modified by the new adopters to fit their local culture and context.

Cultures come into contact, exchange ideas and practices, and blend, resulting in cultural changes for both groups.

Minority group comes into contact with a dominant culture, adopts the dominant culture's practices and values, and abandons their own culture.

Advances in communication, transportation, and technology increase interconnectedness, leading to the exchange of ideas, goods, and services across borders.

Unique histories, cultural identities, or natural environments create an emotional connection to a location, fostering a feeling of belonging.

Rapid social and cultural change, economic development, and loss of traditional ways of life lead to a lack of unique identity in a community.

Cultures interact, adapt to new situations, and evolve over time, influenced by factors such as globalization, diffusion, and migration.

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.