definitions of cross-cultural variation?
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in reference to what?
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To me, culture is a way of life, food, dress, mannerisms, religious beliefs, holidays, etc for a group of people or particular nationality.  Heritage has more to do with ancestry and the origination of your family tree.
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To answer that question you would have to know if the differences between "having a variation" and "not having the variation" are normally distributed.  If so, you could make an assumption on the number to look at based on normal distribution and 3 standard deviations.\n\nIf there is no normal distribution to the data, then you would have to determine your own "statistics" for the odds that the deviation would occur, and calculate the number based on the possible number of "variations" that could occur, versus the odds that any one could occur.
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Most anthropologists believe "race" is not a meaningful concept.  Skin color mutates and alters rpadily as people move around.  It makes more sense to speak of ethnicity or culture than race.  And from a biological sense, when genes in humans do vary, it is usually due to geography and previaling conditions.  For example, most adult humans are lactose intolerant, but both pale northern Europeans and dark Masai folk can digest lactose.  That's because both groups were into dairying.
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Typing out all the differences would be crazy.\nCheck out the links i've posted below.
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domestic occurs within the borders of a specific country.  International occurs between different countries
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Because culture determines values (what we think is important in life), it can certainly cause problems in a relationship if the two cultures are very different.  However, I could list a lot of long-term relationships in which the two people came from different cultures and made it work.  I think you need to really look at your values - what you share and what you don't - beforehand, and you should give the relationship a lot of time to be sure before you do anything like get married or have children if you know there are likely to be issues.  Then you need to remain vigilant and conscious of the likelihood that you might not always be looking at things the same way whenever you have problems.
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Culture: culture has to do with pretty much anything & everything it seems. It is everything from the music you listen to, the food you eat, the holidays you celebrate, how you celebrate those holidays, why you celebrate them, how you dance, or even sing, your mannerisms, the way you approach a situation, how you dress, etc. A lot of this can also sometimes just be individual personality traits; however, our cultures do have a large impact on how we think and act.\n\nAs far as can they change, I would definitely say yes. Look at how so many modern day European countries ( as well as the U.S.) were influenced culturally by how the ancient Greeks lived. I also think that, for example, when someone from another country emmigrates to the U.S. they take their culture with them, but a lot of times end up blending it with American culture as well and it becomes its own.  To me anyways, Asian-American culture is a lot different, but also very similar, to that of just an Asian or American culture; and so on. I hope you know what I mean ;-)
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Here is a website that tells about how different wedding traditions of various cultures:\n\nhttp://www.vfwpost1503.org/different_cultures.htm\n\nHere are Valentine's Day traditions from different countries:\n\nhttp://www.stvalentines.net/traditions.htm\nhttp://www.romanceclass.com/miscr/vday/traditions.asp\nhttp://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/holidays/2_melissa.html\nhttp://www.romanceeverafter.com/valentine's_day_around_the_world.htm\nhttp://www.everythingvalentinesday.com/valentine-day-traditions/valentine-in-others.html\n\nSince most countries observe Valentine's Day~this was the best place to look for celebrations of love in other cultures.  I hope this was helpful in your research!
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http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=southeast+asia+music+affect+on+culture&spell=1
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Homogeneous just means the same, or uniform throughout.  It doesn't necessarily apply to race.  You can certainly have a genetically homogeneous population, but that is a much higher level of sameness than a racially homogeneous population.  Within any racial group there is a huge amount of genetic variability.  \n\nOK, Kurdiatcha's response to my analysis is entirely correct. I will point out, though, that I never said it was anything other than speculation.  At any rate, I hadn't slept in about 3 days, and in that context my analysis made perfect sense to me.  Sorry!\n\nNew theory: I think the perseption that there is more physical diversity in Europe than Africa or Asia could be partially explained by the fact that Europe is geographically smaller.  So it's just that all the different groups are more crammed together and it ends up looking more diverse.\n_________\n\n>>>It was one of the better responses I’ve seen on Yahoo\n>>>answers. It just happened to be incorrect.\nSo I never use the expression "lol," but it seems rather appropriate here.  That was well said.  Thanks : )\n\nYou're probably right on my other theory too.  I should just stop speculating on this entirely.  I do want to point out, though, that the guy who posted the question and said Europeans look more different than Asians is Asian (at least he said so in another question), so I don't think you're entirely correct that people are always more tuned in to difference within their own racial group.  I wouldn't have bothered to speculate on the issue at all (after you shoot down my first theory, that is) except I thought it could possibly hold some tinsy bit of truth because of that.
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THE SIX ..? Sounds like the 6 properties were discussed in your study text - here are a few off the top of my head\n\nA foreign laguage is not a secret code of your mother tongue. It has it's own rules and personality. (German is technical. Korean is more spiritual and repectful of older generations)\n\nYou will find languages all have vowel sounds made from the throat and constant sounds made by the tongue, lips and teeth. (arguements for languages for animals look at the sounds)\n\nThe sentence structure is different in each language. Nouns,  Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs are common in all languages, but have greater or lesser importance in each. (long verbs cam be formed in German using nouns as their basis. English may have nouns based on verb origins -eg: "dining room")\n\nIrregular words (verbs or nouns with plurals) give an idea of things that were important to the host culture before language rules were applied (eg - from wheat to bread, we have many words that discribe the different phases of that food in the West. In the East, rice has many variations to the words used depending on being the plant or gathered or cooking or served).\nVerbs used for hunting (shoot, run, hit, eat) are irregular in English to give an idea what is important to our cultural background. In Greek, there are 5 to 8 translation to our one word "Love" - shows what is important there.\n\nmany cultures have "Peace" as an important part of their greeting or departing wish.
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it depends on what country they are from
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Customs as in regional habits or as the customs duty? \nBeing clear in questioning helps to get an answer!
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I've heard it compared to the difference between American and British English.  That means that there would be differences in accent, vocabulary, and probably grammar.
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Different cultural perspectives in America?  Germany?  Japan?  Be more specific and I probably can help you.
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Probably so. The differences which might make it variable are widths, style, cut, material (leather or cloth, etc) .