Culture

Question	Answer
Nationality	The country you were born in
Ethnicity	Your cultural heritage
Meaning system	Symbols, languages and experiences
Back translation	Translating a phrase multiple times between two languages until both translations get the same phrase.
Cognitive framing	The perceptual framework through which you view the world.
Dialectal thinking	Cognitive reasoning structure through which an individual interprets the environment - change, contradiction and wholeism.
Change	Everything is constantly changing.
Contradiction	Opposing propositions may both be true.
Wholeism	Everything is interrelated.
Emotional complexity	The experience of many emotions at the same time.
Acculturation	Successful integration of the heritage of two cultures.
Assimilation	Complete adoption of a new culture and rejection of old.
Bicultural identity	Degree to which two cultural identities are integrated.

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