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• Culture Traits


  The smallest distinctive items of culture. Units of learned behavior (such as language, tools, games, music, beliefs)
• Xenocentrism


  Preference for the cultural practices of other cultures. Associated with an inferiority complex
• Ethnocentrism


  The tendency to use one's cultural values in evaluating other cultures. It explains that an individual's norms and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual's cultural context
• Culture Shock


  Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of one's surroundings. Common for foreign travel
• Nonmaterial Culture


  Intangible ideas created by members of a society
• Material Culture


  Tangible things created by members of a society. It refers to the objects or belongings of a group of people and is made or modified by a human that help an individual to better understand the society he/she belongs
• Culture


  Defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs, and institutions of a population that is passed down from generation to generation
• Media


  Refers to the communication channels through which we disseminate news, music, movies, education, promotional messages, and other data
• Acculturation


  Adopting many characteristics of another culture group. May involve changes in the original cultural patterns
• Enculturation


  Process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding culture
• Cultural Regions


  A large portion of the earth's surface that is occupied by people sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural traits