General Cultural Terms
Cultural Landscapes
Languages
Religions
Cultural Patterns
100
Something that a group of people does repeatedly that becomes part of their culture (for example, bowing instead of shaking hands in Japan)
What is a Custom?
100
This church shows a pronounced _____ as a part of it's architecture
What is a Steeple?
100
A collection of languages that are all descended from an original, proto-language
What is a Language Family?
100
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people and has a worldwide focus as opposed to a regional focus
What is an Universalizing Religion?
100
All three cultural Hearths for the largest world religions are located on this continent
What is Asia?
200
Judging people or traditions based on your own cultural standards
What is Ethnocentrism?
200
This temple belongs to what religion:
What is Hinduism?
200
A person who speaks more than two languages is also known as this
What is a Polyglot?
200
A religion that is focused on a single ethnic group (often in a centralized area) that doesn't attempt to appeal to all people
What is an Ethnic Religion?
200
The scattering a of people from their homeland (especially the Jews from the Holy Land)
What is Diaspora?
300
The process of a person or group losing the cultural traits that made them distinct from the people around them
What is Assimilation?
300
The feeling resulting from the standardization of the built environment; occurs where local distinctiveness is erased and many places end up with similar cultural landscapes
What is Placelessness?
300
A trade language, characterized by a very small vocabulary derived from the languages of at least two or more groups in contact
What is a Pidgin language?
300
This is the largest ethic/folk religion in the world with over 900 million followers
What is Hinduism?
300
This happens when two cultures become more similar because of frequent interactions
What is Cultural Convergence?
400
The blending traits from two different cultures to form a new trait
What is Syncretism?
400
This type of Architecture is common throughout portions of the U.S. and is known as what
What is Post-Modern Architecture?
400
Different forms of the same language used by groups that have some different vocabulary and pronunciations
What is dialect?
400
This symbol is a key piece of iconography associated with which universalizing religion:
What is Sikhism?
400
Universalizing religions, including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Sikhism, are spread through these type of diffusions
What is expansion and relocation diffusion?
500
An adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
What is Acculturation?
500
This is a type of ____ landscape. Common in the U.S. and contributing to a sense of placelessness.
What is Uniform Landscape?
500
English is from the Indo-European Language tree and is the most widely spoken language in the world. Mandarin is the second most spoken language in the world and comes from this tree
What is the Sino-Tibetan Tree?
500
This indigenous religion that centers on the worship of nature and ancestor spirits, and the belief that sacred powers exist in the natural world
What is Shintoism?
500
The idea that the current cultural landscape is a combination of all the societies who lived there previously and the changes each group made
What is Sequent Occupance?