Words or other communicative things such as gestures or pictures that stand for something else.

Features (e.g., skin, hair, and eye color) that are genetic (inherited) and shared by a large group of people. Social scientists now doubt whether race is a useful concept.

A set of organized beliefs, rules, and practices that establishes how a society will attempt to meet basic needs.

Many cultures coexisting in a similar time and place.

Whether it is our inherited genetic predisposition ("nature") or what we learn as we grow up ("nurture") that predominantly shapes us and our differences as individ [..]

A symbolic form of communication-perhaps the most important feature of a culture.

Regions with shared cultural traits (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa).

Understanding and respecting others and oneself including the similarities and differences in language, gender, socioeconomic class, religion, and other human characteristics and traits.

A collection of people distinguished, by others or themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics.

Outside influences that stimulate cultural change. The Silk Road brought silk to the West and Buddhism to China in the East.