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Causes

• Globalisation- contact
• Economic growth
• Changes of subsistence
• Technology
• Natural Changes
• Colonialism
• Leader
• Conflict within a country
• Inventions

Results

• Alcoholism
• Spread of languages / knowledge
• Change in beliefs / structure
• Syncretism
• Genocide / ethnocide
• Segregation
• Exploitation (e.g. slavery)
• Cultural relativism
• Changes in standard of living
• Armed resistance

Ethnic - society within a society

Tribal - society within itself, with no central political authority.

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