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Acculturation: the process of which a cultural group will change as a result of their interactions with other cultures. The Blending of one culture with another... (another name for cultural convergence)
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birthrate: the number of live births each year per 1,000 people
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Caetano Veloso: Brazilian musician
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Cape Verde: Portuguese Colony... 10 islands off the coast of West Africa
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Cesaria Evora: singer from Cape Verde
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Community: a collection of family dwellings and people who share common goals and values.
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Crioulo: The language spoken by most people from Cape Verde; a blend of Portuguese and West African language
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Cultural Convergence: the process and results of two or more cultures blending together; occurs when the skills art, ideas habits and institutions of one culture comes in contact with another. (another name for acculturation)
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Cultural Diffusion: The spread of knowledge, skills, and traits.
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Cultural Divergence: the restriction of outside cultural influences blending with another culture; the restriction of outside cultural influences blending with another culture. (ex: Mountains, oceans, politics, religious ideas.)
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cultural hearth: the center of innovation or the starting place of a new idea
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Cultural Region: a formal region where one culture trait dominates; formal region where common cultural traits are practiced
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Cultural Traits: an activity or behavior that is repeatedly practiced by a people in society (ex: , food, fashion, religious practices, birthday celebrations, language)
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Culture: beliefs and actions that define a people's way of life
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culture is...?: learned
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death rate: number of deaths per year per 1,000 people
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demographics: the characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, and gender.
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dialect: a local form of speaking, communicating
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diffusion: the movement or spread of cultural traits from one area to another
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emmigration: people who leave the country
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Ethnic Enclave: cultural cluster; a cluster of an ethnic population
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Ethnic Population: a population that shares a common cultural background (They do not need to be located in the same area....can be scattered geographically)
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Gentrification: a move into older neighborhoods by affluent (rich) homeowners
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Gloria Estefan: Cuban singer
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immigration: people who move into the country
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import: commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
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Infant mortality rate(IMR): number of births that result in death per 1,000 births in the first year
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innovation: new ideas that are accepted into a culture
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Joana Amendoeira: Fado singer from Portugal
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Jose Feliciano: Puerto Rican musician
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linguistics: the scientific study of language
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Mestizo: ethnicity of the people of Cape Verde; mix of West Africans and Portuguese colonists
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Milton Nacimiento: Brazilian musician
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Morna: the most important music style of the Cape... slow, minor-keyed melodies of contemplation, poetic lyrics of separation, desire and longing for the past
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morphology: the study of word formation and structure; it studies how words are put together from their smaller parts and the rules governing this process
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phonology: the study of the sound patterns of language. It is concerned with how sounds are organized in a language. it examines what occurs to speech sounds when they are combined to form a word and how these speech patterns are formed together
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population density: the average number of people in a square mile (can be misleading because some of the regions' land is inhabitable) (Many regions choose to use total population/arable land)
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population density calculation: divide the total population of a region by the regions land area
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rural: countryside (2x rate slower than urban living)
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Sandy Leah: musician from Brazil.
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Sodade: A blend of Portuguese lyrics and West Africa rhythms. Like Portuguese Fado music, Sodade is sad, contemplating lyrics of nostalgia.
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syntax: the study of sentence structure. It attempts to describe what is grammatical in a particular language in term of rules
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U.S population rate: 0.9
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United States: land area: 3.71 million population: 29 million urban population: 77%
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urbanization: people living in cities (most of the world is becoming this)
