Lucy decides to get more in touch with her family's Brazilian roots, so she takes beginning Portuguese at the community center and joins her campus Brazilian dance team. These are acts of ____________.

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Lucy's actions of learning Portuguese and joining a Brazilian dance team are examples of cultural participation. This means actively engaging with and learning about one's own culture or the culture of others. It is a way of celebrating diversity and embracing cultural differences rather than trying to assimilate or impose one's own culture on others (ethnocentrism). Cultural pluralism is similar to cultural participation but emphasizes the coexistence of multiple cultures within a society. Cultural norms refer to the shared expectations and rules of behavior within a particular culture. Assimilation involves adopting the practices and values of a dominant culture at the expense of one's own cultural identity.

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