How is Culture Defined and Redistributed?
What is the best way to spread a trend through a VIP access system, using diffusion?
Hierarchical Diffusion
Name the three ways culture is diffused.
Stimulus diffusion, hierarchical diffusion, and expansion(contagious) diffusion.
What was the world's first major religion?
Hinduism
Due to your race, do you have to follow a certain religion?
No, you do not, your race does not define your religion but in some countries, they will imprison you if you do not follow the religion they want you to.
Is it TRUE that some languages originated from one language? True or False
True
What is cultural diffusion?
Cultural Diffusion is the spread of the beliefs and social activities of one culture to different ethnicities, religions, nationalities, etc.
How can cultures, like folk, keep their culture to themselves, without being interfered by modern/popular culture?
They can stay in rural areas or restrict themselves the use of the internet.
Where do 95% of Hindus live?
Inida
How can you tell the difference between race and ethnicity?
Race is more physical and ethnicity is culture and traits
What is the most spoken language in the world?
Mandarin
True or False: Migration can diffuse culture/religion to another location.
True
When might a culture want to branch out?
Possible answers: They need/want a new lifestyle, their community is growing at a tremendous rate, or a revolution may take place.
Name one religion, its holiday, and the reason it’s celebrated.
EX: Christianity, Christmas, birth of Jesus. EX: Judaism, Hanukkah, rededication of the temple of Jerusalem.
Describe “Othering”.
When a tribe refers to themselves as us/we and other tribes or people they/them.
What is the difference between an isolated language and a non-isolated language?
An isolated language has no influence from other outside cultures and may have a higher likelihood of going extinct, while the non-isolated language may have been influenced by the other languages around it.
Well, name two ways how culture is defined?
Answers may include (with exceptions): The ethnicity of the culture, religion, or geographical location.
Why might one certain culture move from one location to another, while others have stayed in relatively close proximity?
Answers may include (with exceptions): Geographical location, needs of the people, or war.
Where are the following religions’ hearths (where did they start?) [Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam]
Christianity: Israel, Buddhism: India/China, Islam: Saudi Arabia
What is Ethnicity? (be specific)
The cultural identification of a person belonging to a particular race. Ex: beliefs, language, and customs.
True or False: over 1,000 languages are going extinct.
False
Name a logical way to how the Chinese language or Culture came to Indonesia.
Migration, Trade/Marketing/Business, or General curiosity to learn (for some reason).
If you had your own culture, how would you popularize your culture in the fastest way possible using diffusion?
Using expansion(contagious) diffusion.
What is one possibility of how Buddhism spread to China? (Think back to 2nd Century CE)
One: Silk road, Two: Trade, Three: Buddhist monks
What is Race? (be specific)
A group of people that share similar characteristics or looks.
What is the modern reason why language or culture have spread or diffused so fast?
The internet/Global network