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• Assimilation The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage adopt the cultural norms of a dominant or host culture, over their original culture.
• Cultural Relativism It is approach in avoiding giving judgements on other cultures as inferior to one's own standards of right and wrong, bad and good or natural unreal
• Ethnocentrism It can lead them to give negative judgements on other cultures based on their own knowledge, values, and behavioral norms.
• Integration Is often synonymous with biculturalism
• Ethnocentrism Belief that your own culture is superior
• Heroes Are past or present, real or fictitious personas who are respected and admired in a culture
• Intercultural Communication Unlikely culturally
• Cultural Relativism Is the acceptance that all cultures are equal in value with one another despite their differences.
• Engage in transpection Try to learn beliefs, feelings and perspective of other cultures
• Values The core of a culture
• Gain Experience You gain true experience by actually visiting a place through sometimes it is costly and tedious
• Marginalization When individuals reject both their culture of origin and the dominant host culture where cultural exclusion is promoted.
• Rituals They hold social significance although often they are acted out for their own sake
• Accomodation The term denotes acquired modification in the behavior which help individuals to adjust to their new environment
• Culture The system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members that the members of society use to cope with one another, and are transmitted from generation to generation through learning
• Acculturation a process through which a person or group from one culture comes to adopt the practices and values of another culture, while still retaining their own distinct culture
• Integration when individuals are able to adopt the cultural norms of the dominant or host culture while maintaining their culture of origin
• Separation when individuals reject the dominant or host culture in favor of preserving their culture of origin
• Melting pot philosophy pertains to the idea that different cultures will blend together and create one ultimate culture
• Pluralism refers to the acknowledgement of cultural relativism and promotion of respect for uniqueness and forbearance of diversity of culture