Practice
- This is when certain aspects of one culture are spread to another culture.
Answer: Cultural Diffusion
- This is the process in which cultures of the world become similar.
Answer: Cultural Leveling
- This is an ideology which suggested that all the diverse people coming to the U.S. as immigrants would blend biologically and culturally in order to form a new unique breed of "Americans."
Answer: Melting Pot Theory
- This is process by which immigrant people adjust and adapt their way of life to the host culture.
Answer: Acculturation
- This is process by which people from different cultures are acculturated and ultimately absorbed into the mainstream culture.
Answer: Assimilation
- Where those in power in the mainstream refuse to allow immigrants to maintain their various cultures.
Answer: Cultural imperialism
- This is tendency for adult immigrants to be rendered powerless in comparison to native-born adults because they live as a half citizen not fully capable of realizing the individual opportunities often found available to average native-born adults.
Answer: Marginalization
- Certain aspects of cultures which are found among peoples of all cultures throughout the world.
Answer: Cultural Universals
- The process whereby one part of culture changes faster than another part to which it is related
Answer: Cultural Lag
