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  2. Customization (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    cultural borrowing; partial borrowing; pilot borrowing; customization; conceptual borrowing; However, within the review, customization is found to be most effective. Lewis argues that customization allows each country to take their own needs into account while allowing for cultural flows. This is important because cultural flows are often ...

  3. Cultural appropriation - Wikipedia

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    A common example of cultural appropriation is the adoption of the iconography of another culture and its use for purposes that are unintended by the original culture or even offensive to that culture's mores. For example, the use of Native American tribal names or images as mascots.

  4. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Spanish escuela alta calques English high school (secundaria or escuela secundaria in Standard Spanish) Spanish grado (de escuela) calques English grade (in school) (nota in Standard Spanish) Spanish manzana de Adán calques English Adam's apple (nuez de Adán, meaning "Adam's nut", in standard Spanish), which in turn is a calque of French ...

  5. THE END - HuffPost

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    the kinds of tyranny they knew could emerge in the future. High school students, college students, recent graduates, activists from all walks of life, have a sense that something overwhelming has been going on.But they have lacked a primer to brief them on these themes and put the pieces together, so it is hard for them to know

  6. Borrowing (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, borrowing is a type of language change in which a language or dialect undergoes change as a result of contact with another language or dialect. In typical cases of borrowing, speakers of one language (the "recipient" language) adopt into their own speech a novel linguistic feature that they were exposed to due to its presence in a different language (the "source" or "donor ...

  7. Cultural literacy - Wikipedia

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    The cause of cultural literacy is a more difficult question when considering acculturation of immigrants, outsiders, cultural minorities, strangers, guests, etc. Literacy of a given culture seems to arise over time with consistent exposure to and participation in that culture, especially certain key cultural strongholds, like business, story ...

  8. Memorials, tributes and donations pour in for New Orleans ...

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    Among the 14 people killed in the New Orleans attack: a warehouse manager, an account executive, an aspiring nurse and two loving parents.

  9. Chinese influence on Korean culture - Wikipedia

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    Chinese influence on Korean culture can be traced back as early as the Goguryeo period; these influences can be demonstrated in the Goguryeo tomb mural paintings. [1]: 14 Throughout its history, Korea has been greatly influenced by Chinese culture, borrowing the written language, arts, religions, philosophy and models of government administration from China, and, in the process, transforming ...