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20 Cards in this Set
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Culture
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The complex whole, which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, customs / habits acquired by man in society
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Cultural Relativity
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Principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood in terms of his own culture
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Refugees
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People who flee their country in fear of their lives, or those people who flee their countries of origin and cannot return home for political reason.
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The Hadith
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Muslim religious writings which describe the prophet Muhammad's actions, attitudes and teachings.
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Gender
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Social identities, male/female
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Globalization
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Closer integration of the countries and peoples of the world
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Female Genital Cutting
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Number of Practices which involve cutting away part or all of a girl's external genitalia.
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Shariah
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Islamic Law
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Ethnocentrism
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The Tendency to believe that one's ethnic or culture group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own.
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The Occident
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The West
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Religion
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A cosmology, or worldview, that explains the basic natural and supernatural order and morality of the universe.
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Enculturation
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Process by which a person adapts to and assimilates the the culture in which s/he lives
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Shi'a
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Second major divison of Islamic believers. This group represents between 10% and 20% of all muslims. Belief tat Ali was the very 1st caliph.
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Social Darwinism
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theory that individuals, groups are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals. used to be used to justify politics, imperialism, & racism
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Sexism
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Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex
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The Quran
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The holy scripture of Islam. Considered by Muslim to be the final, perfect, complete Word of God.
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sex
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Category: Male, Female, or Hermaphrodite to which an organism is assigned
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Social Class
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Social Hierarchy in which individuals and groups are classified on the basis of esteem and prestige acquired mainly through economic success.
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Sunni
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The Largest major division of Muslim believers. Group represents between 80% and 90% of all Muslims. Adherents of this group believe that Ali was the 4th caliph of Islam.
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens
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The Biological race to which all modern human beings belong.
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