Indigenous intellectual propertyIndigenous intellectual property is a term used in national and international forums to describe intellectual property held to be collectively owned by various Indigenous peoples, and by extension, their legal rights to protect specific such property. This property includes cultural knowledge of their groups and many aspects of their cultural heritage and knowledge, including that held in oral history.
Cultural identityCultural identity is a part of a person's identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality, gender, or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture. In this way, cultural identity is both characteristic of the individual but also of the culturally identical group of members sharing the same cultural identity or upbringing.Cultural assimilationCultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or fully adopts the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group. The melting pot model is based on this concept. A related term is "cultural integration", which describes the process of becoming economically and socially integrated into another society while retaining elements of one's original culture.
Indigenous peoples of the AmericasThe Indigenous peoples of the Americas, also called Indians, Amerindians, or simply Natives, are the peoples who are native to the Americas or the Western Hemisphere. Their ancestors are among the pre-Columbian population of South or North America, including Central America and the Caribbean. Indigenous peoples live throughout the Americas. There are at least 1,000 different Indigenous languages of the Americas still in use in the 21st century.
BlackfaceBlackface is the practice of performers using burned cork, shoe polish, or theatrical makeup to portray a racialized caricature of black people, e.g. African Americans, on stage or in entertainment. It is overwhelmingly condemned as a racist and deeply inappropriate act. Scholarship on the origins or definition of blackface vary with some taking a global perspective that includes European culture and Western colonialism.
Victoria's SecretAmerican lingerie and cosmetics retailerVictoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing and beauty retailer. Founded in 1977 by Stanford graduate student Roy Raymond and his wife Gaye, the company's five lingerie stores were sold to Les Wexner in 1982.
AcculturationAdjusting to a new cultural environment Immigration General Immigration by country list of immigrant populations Immigration country Immigration policy Forced displacement Illegal immigration Internal migration History and law Alien Asylum shopping Border security Citizenship Crime Deportation self-deportation Detention Emigration Externalization Immigrant investor programs Immigration law Immigration tariff Indefinite leave to remain Migration diplomacy Net migration rate list New Pact on Migration and Asylum EU Non-refoulement Permanent residency Population transfer Pushback Refugee Repatriation extradition Residence permit Return migration Right of asylum Right of return Safe third country Smuggling Surveillance Voluntary return Social processes Acculturation gap Birth tourism anchor baby satellite babies Economic effects Expatriate Human capital flight Human migration Immigrant assimilation Immigrant generations Immigrant invasion Immigration consultant Integration Migration background Persecution Refugee crisis Social exclusion Student migration Unreported employment Visa fraud Political theories Civic nationalism Ethnocentrism Foot voting Group cohesiveness Multiculturalism Nativism Plurinationalism Push and pull factors Religious nationalism Replacement migration Causes Chain migration Economic migrant foreign worker global labor arbitrage War Weaponized Opposition and reform Criticism of multiculturalism Immigration reform Opposition to immigration White genocide conspiracy theory vte Acculturation refers to the psychological, social, and cultural transformation that takes place through direct contact between two cultures, wherein one or both engage in adapting to dominant cultural influences without compromising their essential distinctiveness.Dominant cultureA dominant culture is a cultural practice within a particular political, social or economic entity, in which multiple cultures co-exist. It may refer to a language, religion or ritual practices, social value and/or social custom. These features are often a norm for an entire society.
CultureSocial behavior and norms of a societySymbolic expression developed as prehistoric humans reached behavioral modernityReligion and expressive art are important aspects of human culture.Germans marching during a folk culture celebrationThe Acropolis of AthensWritings often create a sense of cultural identity, Ernest Hemingway writing.Culture ( or ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Cultural diffusionIn cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion is the spreading of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, art, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another. The concept was introduced by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis. It is distinct from the diffusion of innovations within a specific culture.
Minority groupThe term "minority group" has different meanings, depending on the context. According to common usage, it can be defined simply as a group in society with the lowest number of individuals, or less than half of a population. Usually a minority group is disempowered relative to the majority, and that characteristic lends itself to different applications of the term minority.
ExoticismExoticism (from exotic) is the style or traits considered characteristic of a distant foreign country. In art and design it is a trend where creators become fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions and draw inspiration from them.
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