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People who live in areas of the U.S. that have harsher and colder climate conditions tend to be less tolerant of ambiguity than those who reside in warmer areas of the country.

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The average marrying age of 13 for girls in India came about because

A) of the high unemployment rate of young women.
B) it maximized childbearing years in a culture with a relatively short life expectancy.
C) British colonial administrators mandated it.
D) wealthy individuals thought the number 13 was lucky.

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Cultures that develop in warm climates are characterized by

Race is a much more specific and limiting term than either culture or nation.

Race can form the basis for prejudicial communication that can be a major obstacle to intercultural communication.

Lustig and Koester use the term _____________to refer to the external environment in which a culture lives.

Race is a more all-encompassing term than either culture or nation.

What two factors does Jared Diamond argue allowed Europeans to conquer the native people in the Americas?

In order to solve the problem of overpopulation and the resulting food shortages, while also recognizing the church's ban on artificial methods of birth control, women in late 19th century Ireland did NOT marry before the age of 30. Of what phenomenon is this is an example?

Scholars who compare nations' media usage study

Culture is taught by the explanations people receive for the natural and human events around them. This process is an example of how culture

Which term refers to the predictable behaviors patterns that members of a culture typically follow?

A term used to refer to a wide variety of groups who share a language, historical origins, religious traditions, and identification with a cultural system is

_________are not considered institutional networks.

The term beliefs refers to what a group of people defines as good and bad or what it regards as important.

According to studies of interracial adoption,_________ are the most critical factors in determining children's IQ scores.

__________form the shared knowledge that guide a culture's collective actions.

Mass media are a form of technology.

According to Lustig and Koester, which one of the following is most likely NOT a force that creates cultural differences?

According to Lustig and Koester, the term culture can be used to refer to couples and small groups as well as to large groups of people.