Globalization & Economy
The worldwide exchange of goods, technology, human ideas, and cultural traditions
What is globalization?
Physical environmental factor that is NOT considered a learned component of human culture.
What is climate?
The spatial movement and spread of a cultural trait from its origin to new areas.
What is cultural diffusion?
The primary way international trade and media affect a local community.
What is by introducing new cultural influences?
Spatial measurement showing how crowded or spread out people are in an area.
What is population density?
The primary economic benefit of global trade agreements and international shipping networks.
What is expanding markets and trade?
Four learned human behaviors listed in the study guide as parts of culture.
What are language, religion, food, and music?
The direct result that occurs as trade and communication expand across borders.
What is increased cultural exchange?
Major negative outcome when rapid global trade replaces rare regional traditions.
What is the loss of local traditions?
The specific unit measurement used to calculate population density.
What is people per square mile or kilometer?
Visual memory anchor used to picture shoppers, factories, and smartphones connected across continents.
What is a giant global web or network?
The core difference between how an individual gains their climate versus their culture.
What is: you are born into a climate, but you learn your culture?
Memory anchor drink that diffused from Taiwan to main street cafes in the U.S.
What is Boba tea?
Number of rare local languages at risk of disappearing due to global languages
What is over 3,000 languages?
Visual memory anchor used to represent high population density.
What is a crowded downtown stadium?
The study guide's example of international online sales involves a local business selling to customers in these three countries.
What are Japan, Brazil, and Germany?
A group of people bound by shared cultural traditions, ancestral heritage, or birthplace traits.
What is ethnicity?
Quiz answer example showing cultural diffusion in action with food.
What is a traditional dish from one country becoming popular in another?
Term used in the memory anchor for dominant global languages taking over local ones
What is a 'lingua franca'?
Visual memory anchor used to represent low population density.
What is a quiet rural farm?
Two expanding factors that drive human cultural exchange across international borders.
What are trade and communication technology?
Ethnicity connects to these roots passed down directly through family history.
What is ancestral heritage?
Memory anchor example of cultural exchange involving Mexican food eaten in Europe
What is eating tacos in Sweden?
Example of a new local business opening that brings fresh cultural elements to a hometown.
What is a new international restaurant?
A diverse community where multiple distinct cultural groups live and share experiences together peacefully.
What is a multicultural society?