The biggest hinderance to this culture is lack of access to TV or internet.
Pop Culture
What is this cultural landscape?
Buddhist temple
Define ethnicity.
membership in a group of people who share characteristics such as ancestry, language, customs, history, and common experiences
This culture is found among homogeneous groups.
Folk Culture
What is this cultural Landscape?
Buddhist Temple
How does sense of place connect to ethnic enclaves?
It gives an ethnic group a sense of belonging in that the shared cultural traits bring homogeneity; sense of ownership
Does the US have an official language?
no
What describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single nation or region
What is Multiculturalism
Identify a location of an ethnic island.
Amish in Pennsylvania
Mennonites in Canada
Where to you see a centrifugal force occur die to languages?
Canada and Belgium as two examples
The U.S. enacted laws in the 19th century and set up Indian boarding schools across the nation. For over 150 years, Indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced into boarding schools to learn. This is an example of...
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Assimilation
What is Gullah?
a Creole language - spoken in African-American communities of the coastal southeastern United States, particularly in South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida (blends English with West African dialects)
Where are Latinos clustered in the United States and what is the historical process?
Southwest: Spanish colonial influence
Where does Pop Culture typical start and what is one of the fastest ways for it to diffuse?
Urban areas and through social media/internet
What is ethnocentrism and what is its opposite?
CULTURAL RELATIVITY
What two language families make up 2/3 of the spoken languages
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan
Identify three universalizing religions and WHY
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism - Contagious diffusion through missionary activity
Where are East Asian clustered in the US and why?
Pacific Coast - Relocation diffusion from the other side of the Pacific
How would you classify the language of Swahili?
it is the Lingua Franca of many Eastern African countries