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In order to understand another culture fully, anthropologists try to understand its members’ beliefs and motivations.
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Aspects of culture that have meaning for many or most people within the same national culture, including media, fast-food restaurant chains, sports, and games.
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The accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems.
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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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The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations.
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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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Different cultural symbol-based patterns and traditions associated with subgroups in the same complex society.
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The 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, include the rights to speak freely, to hold religious beliefs without persecution, and not to be enslaved.
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Key, basic, or central values that integrate a culture and help distinguish it from others.
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Borrowing between cultures either directly or through intermediaries.
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Something, verbal or nonverbal, that arbitrarily and by convention stands for something else, with which it has no necessary or natural connection.
