3.3

• cultural patterns - related sets of cultural traits and complexes that create similar behaviors across space
• nationality - based on people connection to a particular country
• sharia - the legal framework of a country derived from islamic edicts taken from their holy book, the Qur’an
• blue laws - laws that restrict certain activities, such as the sale of alcohol on sunday
• fundamentalism - an attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious faith
• theocracies - countries run by religious leaders, often with a religious basis for law
• ethnocentric - a person who is prejudiced against other cultures and races
• cultural relativism - the idea that different cultures have different values and that we should respect these differences
• cultural appropiration is when a culture adopts aspects of another culture without understanding the meaning of those aspects