Acculturation - culture change that results from continuous, firsthand contact between two distinct cultural groups.

Assimilation - process of receiving new facts or of responding to new situations in conformity with what is already available to consciousness.

Communication - 1. goal-directed and context-bound exchange of meaning between two or more parties. It takes place between people for a specific reason in a particular medium and environment. It is a culture-bound activity.

2. symbolic process in which people create shared meanings.

Сulture - way of life of a human society, transmitted from one generation to the next by learning (of language and other symbolic media) and by experience. Cultural universals include social organization, religion, structure, economic organization, and material culture (tools, weapons, clothing). The spread of culture traits (customs, ideas, attitudes) among groups by direct or indirect contact is called diffusion.

2. complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits required by man as a member of society.

3. system of expressive practices fraught with feeling, a system of symbols, premises, rules, forms, and the domains and dimensions of mutual meanings associated with these.

4. learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, and norms, which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people.

Cultural Identity - sense of belonging to a particular culture or ethnic group.

Cultural Shock - pattern in which the individual has severe negative reactions on contact with another culture.

Intercultural Communication - symbolic process, which occurs when large and important cultural differences create dissimilar interpretations and expectations about how to communicate competently.

Prejudice - negative attitude towards other people that is based on faulty and inflexible stereotypes.

Race - subgroup of peoples possessing a definite combination of physical characters, of genetic origin, the combination of which to varying degrees distinguishes the subgroup from other subgroups of mankind.

Subculture - a racial and ethnic minority group that shares both a common nation-state with other cultures and some aspects of the larger culture.

Value - what a group of people defines as good and bad or what it regards as important.

Ethnocentrism - belief that the customs and practices of one’s own culture are superior to those of other cultures.