UCSP

• Human variation serves as adaptive tool for the varied stimuli projected by the environment, is influenced by beliefs, practices and material possessions.
• Nationality is the identity that is tied to being part of

  a nation or country.
• Ethnic Groups within the nation these are the smaller cultural groups that share specific environments, traditions and histories that are not necessarily subscribed by the mainstream culture.
• Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.
• Sex is the biological characteristics of human such as

  male or female
• Transgender people believes that their gender identity does not match their biological sex.
• Heterosexual - a person attracted to their opposite sex.
• Homosexual - a person attracted to their similar sex.
• Bisexual - a person attracted to both sexes.
• Asexual - a person experiencing little to no attraction to another person.
• Polysexual - a person attracted to multiple gender identity.
• Pansexual - a person who is attracted to people of all genders.
• Global south - developing countries.
• Global north - developed countries.
• Political Identity refers to the way people think of themselves in relation to their political affiliation.
• Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power especially a personal God or Gods.
• Monotheistic believing in the existence of one God.
• Polytheistic believing in the existence of multiple Gods.
• Cultural variation is the variation in human conditions promotes diversity and plurality in cultural traditions.
• Ethnocentrism is the perspective that promotes an individual culture as the most efficient and superior.
• Cultural relativism promotes the perspective that cultures must be understood in the context of their locality.
• Cultural beginnings - It is a by-product of the attempt of humans to survive their environment, and to compensate for their biological characteristics and limitations.
• Thinking capacity – the primary component of humans that allowed for culture is the developed brain.
• Speaking capacity – as the brain is the primary source of human’s capacity to comprehend sound and provides meaning to it, the vocal tract acts as the mechanism by which sounds are produced and reproduced to transmit ideas and values.
• Gripping capacity - the capacity to directly oppose a thumb with the other fingers.
• Power grip - enabled humans to wrap the

  thumb and fingers on an object.
• Precision grip - enabled humans to hold and pick objects steadily using their fingers.
• Bipedalism - the ability to walk and stand on two feet.
• Quadropedalism - the ability to walk on all four limbs simultaneously