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culture
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part of everything we think, do, feel and believe; different values/customs of society
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social communitities
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groups of people who live within a dominant culture yet also are members of another group or...
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high-context communication style
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indirect and undetailed; for communities that are very interconnected
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low-context communication style
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explicit, detailed and precise; for communities that are very independent
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beliefs
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conceptions of what is true, factual, or valid
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values
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generally shared views of what is good, right worthwhile, and impartant with regard to conduct...
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norms
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informal rules that guide how members of a culture act, as well as how they think and feel
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dynamic
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evolution and change over time
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invention
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creation of tools, ideas and practices
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diffusion
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borrowing from another culture
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cultual calamity
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adversity that brings about change in a culture
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ethnocentrism
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the use of one's own culture and its practices as the standard for interpreting the calues,...
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cultural relativism
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recognizes that cultures vary in how they think, act and behave as well as in what they believe...
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resistance
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occures when we attack the cultural practices of others or proclaim that our own cultural traditions...
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assimilation
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occures when people give up their own ways and adopt the ways of the dominant culture
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tolerance
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the acceptance of differences even though we may not approce of or even understand them
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understanding
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response to diversity; accepting that differences are rooted in cultural teachings and that...
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respect
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moving beyond judgment and undersatnding the cultural basis for practices that diverge from...
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participation
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to incorporate some of the practices and values of other groups into our own lives
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multilingual
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ability to speak and think in more than one language
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