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| traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas and may include a custom such as wearing a sarong in Malaysia or a sari in India |
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| found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics. |
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| a repetitive act that a particular individual performs, such as wearing jeans to class every day. |
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| a repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group. |
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| The sum of the effects of the local environment on a particular food item. |
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| A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a taboo. |
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| the one language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps. |
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| regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |
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| a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication. |
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| British received pronunciation |
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| it is commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors. |
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| a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. |
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| a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago. |
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| a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |
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| The latin that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literary form but a spoken form. |
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| a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated. |
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| characters that represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronunciations. Example: Chinese. |
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| languages that are extinct |
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| A language of international communication, such as English. |
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| A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family. |
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| A group that learns English or another lingua franca may learn a simplified form |
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| a combination of ebony and phonics. |
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| A combination of francais and anglais. |
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| A large and fundamental division within a religion. |
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| a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body |
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| a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination. |
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| belief that there is only one God. |
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| Animists beleive that such inanimate objects as plants and stores, are "animated," or have discrete spirits and conscious life. |
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| individuals who help to transmit a universalizing religion through relocation diffusion. |
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| city neighborhood set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews. |
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| A journey for religious purposes to a place considered sacred. |
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| a set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. |
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| a major holiday in some pagan religions. |
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| the basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church. |
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| has well-defined geographic structure and organizes territory into local administrative units. |
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| a literal interpretation and a strict and intense adherence to basic principles of a religion. |
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| the class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu was assigned according to religious law. |
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| an efficient triangular trading pattern |
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| works fields rented from a landowner pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. |
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| the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. |
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| the identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor. |
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| identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. |
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| physical separation of different races into different geographic areas. |
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| real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property values to decline. |
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| identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country. |
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| the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
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| a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. |
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| loyalty and devotion to a nationality. |
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| identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and person allegiance to a particular country. |
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| an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. |
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| a state that contains more than one ethnicity. |
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| contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities. |
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| a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
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| used to describe a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other |
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| the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. |
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