Pop Culture
What group does popular culture target?
Youth
what type of music is transmitted orally and passed down from generation to generation?
Folk music
What is the largest language family?
Indo-European
What area of the US smokes the most
The area that produces tobacco
What is the largest language family, after Indo-European?
Sino-Tibetan
Why is popular culture spreading faster currently than it has in the past?
Electronic communication
What kind of hearths does folk culture have
Anonymous hearths
What language branch does English come from
Germanic
What animal is a taboo for Judaism and Islam
Pork and all unclean meat
How do dialects differ from one another?
Grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary
what strategy do food companies use to attract customers in different countries/areas?
Glocalization
How fast does folk culture diffuse?
Slowly
Through what culture are most languages spread
Popular culture
Taboo
What is a dialect
One way to phrase it is: a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group
What is the most dominant religion as of around 300 AD?
Christianity
Soccer
What is the most widely spread language
English
What kind of culture are most food recipes
Folk culture
what is a lingua franca
a language adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
Youths of the ages 18-29 years have what percent of smartphones in the United States?
90%
What is folk culture?
A combination of local physical and cultural factors
What language has the most speakers
Mandarin
What does cultural divergence mean
Ex: The tendency for culture to become increasingly dissimilar with the passage of time
Give an example of a place where English is a lingua franca
Some are India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe