Pop/Folk Culture
The biggest hinderance to this culture is lack of access to TV or internet.
What is pop culture?
This is a regional variation of a language qualified by different vocabulary use or spelling of words.
What is a dialect?
These are the three major ethnic religions taught in this class.
What are Hinduism, Judaism, Shinto?
This describes the process of a cultural feature spreading from one part of the world to another through the migration of human beings.
What is relocation diffusion?
The word we use to describe the series of sounds made by humans to communicate and interact with each other.
What is language?
This culture is found among homogeneous groups.
What is Folk Culture?
International language of communication. (Trade language)
What is a lingua franca?
This holy city is a regular "hotbed" of religious conflict between three of the world's major religions.
This is the process of cultural features spreading through contact and interaction between one group and another.
What is contagious diffusion?
This is the language that is NOT the official language of a culture, but is still the most widely spoken.
What is "de facto" or primary language?
This describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single nation or region
What is Multiculturalism?
Believed to be one of the world's first lingua francas. Still spoken by hundreds of thousands of Africans today.
What is Swahili?
This is the process through which ethnic religions spread through the world.
What is Relocation Diffusion?
This is the process of a cultural feature spreading from a group in power to another either through forced means or regular influence.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
This is the word used to describe when groups are forced to shed their own culture in favor of another. EG Indigenous Americans in boarding schools.
Popular culture usually starts in these types of regions.
What are large cities and/or urban areas?
These two language families make up 2/3 of the total languages spoken in the modern world.
What are Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan?
These are the three major universalizing religions in the modern world.
What are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
This is the process of a cultural feature spreading from a weaker, oppressed, or underrepresented group to a more powerful group.
What is reverse hierarchical diffusion?
This is the process of one culture adopting another culture's traits while still retaining some of their own.
What is acculturation?
The word used to describe when large groups of similar people habitually do something.
What are customs?
These four countries are the places where English is a primary language but not the official language.
What are USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand?
These two religions share a common cultural hearth.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism- India
OR Christianity and Judaism- Israel (Islam in the Middle East)
This is the term used to describe the spread of a culture or its people through force or other things outside of the group's control.
What is a diaspora?
These are three of the OFFICIAL languages of the nation of Switzerland. (DAILY DOUBLE)
German, French, Italian