ap human geo unit 4 culture

Monotheistic

Belief in one god

Polytheistic

Belief in many gods

Assimilation

When a distinct group loses culture

Cultural appropriation

When one culture adopts customs and knowledge from another culture and uses them for their own benefit

Neocalism

Conscious effort to define a sense of place for regional culture

Glocalization

Process of adapting global products or services to local cultures

Animism

Belief that natural objects, plants, and animals have a spiritual essence and conscious life

Ethnic religion

People are born and whose followers do not actively seek converts

Universalizing religions

A religion believed by its followers to have a universal application and to which followers actively seek converts

Cultural landscape

Visible human imprint on the landscape

Placelessness

Loss of uniqueness of a location so that one place looks like the next

Reterritorialization

When a local culture shapes an aspect of popular culture as their own adopting the popular culture to their local culture

Dialect

Variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines

Isogloss

Geographic boundary that separates different linguistic features, such as CNN as word usage, grammar

Creolized language

A language that began as a pidgin language and was later adopted (syncretism of two languages)

Language divergence

New languages are eventually formed from one language

Fundamentalism

A strict adherence to a set of basic principles

Secularism

Separating religion from political, social, and educational institutions, ensuring government and public life are neutral

Pilgrimage

Journey to a sacred site for religions or spiritual purposes

Conquest theory

Spread of a language or culture through military force

Lingua France

Language used for cultural interaction among people who speak different languages