Pop/Folk Culture
The biggest hinderance to this culture is lack of access to TV or internet.
What is Pop Culture?
Regional variation of a single language
What is dialect?
Name two ethnic religions.
Hinduism, Judaism, Animism
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth
What is ethnicity?
International language of communication. (Trade language)
What is a lingua franca?
Place that is a hotbed of religious conflict because three major religions claim it as a holy city (result of land divisions post WWII)
What is Israel/Jerusalem?
Characteristics that divide a country and may create instability, conflict and violence.
What are centrifugal forces?
Three historic causes of cultural diffusion
Imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, trade, relocation
Describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single nation or region
What is Multiculturalism
First language of only 800,000 people -Spoken by 30 million Africans -Used to speak with outsiders from different villages ('de facto' language of Africa)
What is Swahili?
The main process by which ethnic religions are spread
What is relocation diffusion?
Behaviors that are heavily discouraged within a certain culture (e.g. eating pork in Jewish and Islamic culture)
What are cultural taboos?
The process of a culture restricting contact with other cultures in an attempt to retain its originality
What is cultural divergence?
Locations in which popular culture usually begins and definitely thrives
What are large cities and urban areas.
Examples of visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group's culture (identify at least 2)
What are artifacts, sociofacts, mentifacts?
Regional patterns of this culture include the Roman Catholic religion and shared history of European colonization
What is Latin American culture?
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
What is sequent occupance?
Which religions share a common hearth?
Christianity and Judaism- Israel; Hinduism and Buddhism- India
Where are the following groups clustered in the United States? Latin Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans
Latin Americans: Clustered in the Southwest... African Americans: Clustered in the Southeast... Asian Americans: Clustered in the West
Locations that help indicate the role of women within a certain society or culture
What are gendered spaces?