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Assimilation: The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society and culture.
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Authenticity: In the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.
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Commodification: The process through which something is given monetary value.
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Cultural Appropriation: The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit.
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Cultural landscape: ...
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Culture: The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
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Custom: Practice routinely followed by a group of people.
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Distance Decay: The effects of distance on interation, generally the greater distance the less interaction.
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Ethnic Neighborhood: Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.
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Folk Culture: Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.
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Hearth: The area where an idea or cultural trait originates.
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Hierarchical Diffusion.: A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first amoung the most connected places or people.
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Local Culture: Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to perserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness.
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Material Culture: The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar itema constructed or created by a group of people.
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Neolocalism: The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
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Nonmaterial Cultue: The beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of people.
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Placelessness: The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that no one place looks like the next.
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Popular Culture: Cultural traits such as dress, diets, and music that identify and are part of todays changeable, urban-based, media influenced western societies.
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Reterritarialization: With respect to popular culture, whe people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own.
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Time-Space Compression: A term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity.
