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| Question | Answer |
| Acculturation | The cultural changes when cultures adapt to eachother's worldview |
| Accomodation | Creating "space" for each others culture (traditions, beliefs, technology) |
| Assimilation | A culture or group being absorbed by the more dominant's culture |
| Collective Identity | shared sense of belonging to a group |
| Culture | One's beliefs including tradition (what they eat, wear, practice etc) |
| Cultural Content Laws | Gov Laws preventing a groups cultural identity (literature, movies songs) to be overwhelmed by the media of a more dominant culture |
| Cultural Revitalization | trying to renew culture (Ex: Banning English words in France) |
| Culture diversity | the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society. |
| Digital Divide | The gap that divides people who can/can't access up to date technology |
| Disparity | the difference between two things. "Gap" |
| Fair Trade | address inequalities in money dividing between jobs, protect fluctuating revenue by setting a payment line that won’t change. This often raises the price of goods in the developed world. |
| First World Problems | a relatively trivial or minor problem or frustration (implying a contrast with serious problems such as those that may be experienced in the developing world). |
| Global Village | the world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications. |
| Globalization | The inter connectiveness of the world by things such as trade or technology. |
| Homogonization | Erasing of cultural differences so people become more similar |
| Hybridization | Combining elements of 2 or more different things to create something new. |
| Individual Identity | Identities that are dynamic- they develop and change constantly. We make choices about identity. |
| Integration | an act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group. |
| Marginialization | The process of making a group less important, or regulated to a second position |
| Media Convergence | interconnection of information and communications technologies, computer networks, and media content. It brings together the “three C’s”—computing, communication, and content—and is a direct consequence of the digitization of media content and the popularization of the Internet. |
| Media Concentration | decreasing number of individuals and organizations that own media outlets, effectively concentrating the ownership of multiple organization into the control of very few entities |
| Economies of Scale | A proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production (Buying in bulk) |
| Monoculture | A single, homogeneous culture without diversity. |
| Multiculturalism | the view that the various cultures in a society merit equal respect and scholarly interest. |
| Pop Culture | Often refers t ocurrent cultural trends that are spread by commercial mass media |
| Propoganda | Promoting of specific goals of a political cause by use of ideas in formation, usually biased and misleading. |
| Universalization | Spread of cultures, trends, customs and practices around the world |
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