Concepts
Food preferences, architecture and land use are examples of this.
What is a cultural trait?
The phenomenon where advancements in transportation and communication technologies lead to a perceived "shrinking" of the world, meaning places feel closer and interactions between them become faster and more frequent is known as what?
Time-space compression
These religions are universalizing religions.
What are Christianity and Islam?
Explain the diffusion of popular culture throughout the world in contemporary society. (How has it happened?)
Technology, world cities, social media, globalization
What is cultural relativism?
understanding a culture on its own terms, rather than judging it based on the standards or customs of one's own culture, promoting a more objective and nuanced perspective
These are historical causes of diffusion.
What are Colonialism, trade and imperialism?
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
This religion spread through relocation, conquest and trade in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Asia Minor.
What is Islam?
What is the second largest language family?
Sino-Tibetan
What is a sacred space? Provide an example.
A location viewed as worthy of respect and dedication, believed to be holy, and often cared for and protected, serving as a place for worship, pilgrimage, or ritual practices
Religions can be broken into these two types based on their growth model.
What are universalizing and ethnic?
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
Why has Christianity spread to places such as the Philippines?
Relocation diffusion and colonization by the Spaniards
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Relocation diffusion
Define Lingua Franca.
A language that is used as a common means of communication between people who do not share a native language, often arising in trade, diplomacy, or cultural exchange
Indo-European is an example of this.
What is a language family?
What is is the belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than other cultures?
What is ethnocentrism?
The world’s three major monotheistic religions originated in which hearth? What are the religions?
Southwest Asia
Christianity, Islam, Judaism
What is acculturation?
The process where individuals or groups adopt the traits and social patterns of another culture while still retaining some aspects of their original culture.
Define and explain the differences between a pidgin language and creole languages.
Pidgin language is a simplified, makeshift language that emerges for communication between people who don't share a common language, while a creole language is a pidgin that has evolved into a stable, native language with its own grammar and vocabulary
Human interaction with nature helps form this.
What is a cultural landscape?
The Gullah language is spoken in African-American communities of the coastal southeastern United States, particularly in South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida. It is a combination of Elizabethan English and African dialects that has become a full language. One can describe Gullah as a what?
What is a creolized language?
Which religion originated in South Asia and subsequently spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia?
Buddhism
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?
Define multiculturalism and provide an example.
The coexistence and acceptance of multiple cultures within a society, emphasizing the value of cultural diversity and the integration of diverse groups while respecting their unique identities and traditions. Example: Canada