1. the division of an area into smaller regions, which are usually hostile to one another ethnic cleansing
2. a system under which foreign governments take control of an area for political and/or economic purposes cultural diffusion
3. the contact and interaction of culture groups geopolitical
4. the process whereby one culture adopts traits of another culture cultural convergence
5. government policy that attempts to restrict the access of its population to outside culture balkanization
6. groups living near each other while maintaining their unique cultures cultural mosaic
7. policy whereby one group of individuals of common ancestry is removed from an area by another group of individuals of common ancestry, either through death or expulsion cultural divergence
8. the link between geography and politics colonization