Concepts
Food preferences, architecture, land use, music, food, and clothing are examples of this.
What is a cultural trait?
This is the process of an immigrant adopting certain customs of a new culture while maintaining parts of their old culture.
What is acculturation?
An ethnic religion based in South Asia and has a heavy emphasis on reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
Name a universalizing religion.
Christianity, Buddhism and Islam
Diffusion that is a result of people moving (migration).
What is Relocation Diffusion?
An emperor adopts a new religion and then requires all people to practice this religion. What type of diffusion is this?
Hierarchical Diffusion
The body of customary beliefs, social values, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
This city is claimed as a holy site or hearth of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
What is Jerusalem?
What action(s) of the European powers caused Christianity to spread to all parts of the world, especially through North, Central, and South America
What is colonialism?
A type of diffusion that spreads from person to person, such as a TikTok post causing a new dance trend.
What is contagious diffusion?
Religions that fit with any culture and actively seek converts.
What are universalizing religions?
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture. An example being the treatment of Native American tribes in the USA.
What is Assimilation (or forced assimilation)?
This religion's hearth was in India, but relocated almost entirely to East Asia and Southeast Asia.
What is Buddhism?
This means belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
Voodoo mixes elements of African religious traditions with Christianity and is therefor for an example of....
What is Syncretism?
This is the most commonly spoken language family (tree).
What is the Indo-European Language family?
The Amish in the United States are example of a culture refusing to take on new traits.
What is cultural divergence?
This religion spread hierarchically from its hearth in Southwest Asia across northern Africa and all the way to South Asia and modern day Pakistan.
What is Islam
Of the world's major religions, which is the oldest (we saw this in the video)?
What is Hinduism?
McDonald's is an American cultural icon popular all over the world. However, in some places (like India) it makes considerable changes its menu to reflect local cultural expectations. This is an example of which type of diffusion?
Stimulus Diffusion
Human interaction with the environment which helps reflect the culture - the built environment.
What is a cultural landscape?
The ruins of ancient cultures that are visible in the modern cultural landscape.
What is sequence occupancy?
This ethnic religion is related to Buddhism but was built specifically to the Japanese culture.
What is Shintoism?
Immigrants often form into communities within the major cities of the United States. They do this for support in adjusting to a new country. Chinatowns are an example. What is the term for this historical trend?
Ethnic Enclaves or Ethnic Islands
A type of architecture that tries to be an art form of its own - dramatic shapes and styles that make an artistic statement reflecting culture.
What is Postmodern Architecture?