| acculturation | The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.
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| core values | Key, basic, or central values that integrate a culture and help distinguish it from others.
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| cultural rights | Doctrine that certain rights are vested not in individuals but in identifiable groups, such as religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous societies.
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| cultural relativism | The position that the values and standards of cultures differ and deserve respect. Extreme relativism argues that cultures should be judged solely by their own standards.
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| diffusion | Borrowing between cultures either directly or through intermediaries.
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| enculturation | The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations.
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| ethnocentrism | The tendency to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standards.
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| globalization | The accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems.
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| human rights | Doctrine that invokes a realm of justice and morality beyond and superior to particular countries, cultures, and religions. Human rights, usually seen as vested in individuals, would include the right to speak freely, to hold religious beliefs without persecution, and not to be enslaved.
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| independent invention | Development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances.
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| international culture | Cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries.
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| national culture | Cultural experiences, beliefs, learned behavior patterns, and values shared by citizens of the same nation.
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| subcultures | Different cultural symbol-based traditions associated with subgroups in the same complex society.
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| universal | Something that exists in every culture.
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