Culture
Saying a food from a different culture tastes bad is an example of what?
Ethnocentrism- You base your feelings about someone else's culture using your own, and other cultures are inferior to your own
In many Jewish and Muslim communities, people are forbidden from eating pork, What is this an example of
Taboo
What is the largest and second largest language family
Ind-European and Sino-Tibetan language families
When a creolized language is created, two languages are combined to form a combination of those languages, this is an example of what?
Syncretism
Language of international communication
Lingua Franca
The opposite of ethnocentrism is...
Cultural relativism
Difference between folk and pop culture
Folk culture- traditional culture practiced homogeneously within a small, relatively isolated group.
Pop culture- culture found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits that share certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics (EX: blue jeans are used globally)
Why do languages diffuse?
When people migrate, they bring their language with them.
Why is spelling in US different than spelling in Britan?
Noah Webster changed the spelling of the words in the dictionary to differentiate the US spelling from Britan
What are official languages
Used by government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct publish business.
New Orleans, which has many cultures that have modified its land over time, is an example of what?
Sequent Occupance
When a town takes particular elements from their environment and constructs their own landscape this is created (also an example of environmental possiblism)
Built environment
Different places in the US have different pronunciations and words, this is an example of
dialect
When a dialect is considered most acceptable, it is called...
Standard language
What are Language families, language branches, and language groups
Language family- Collection of languages relating through a common ancestral language
Language branch- Collection of languages within a family that share a common language
Language group- Collection of languages within a branch that share a recent origin and display many similarities.
What is a negative of cultural convergance
Loss of indigenous language and folk culture
idea that cultures can be separate and distinct from one another and still co-exist
multiculturalism
The North, Midland, South, and West are all examples of what regarding there differences in dialects
Isogloss
The Chinese use these to represent words or meaningful phrases
Logograms
Structures and organizations of a culture which influences social behavior (slower to change)
Sociofact
What is glocalization
A business is developed and distributed globally, but is adjusted to accommodate the user in a local market
The Atlanta belt line, where people can live, work, play, and learn without leaving, is an example of what?
Placemaking
What kind of force (centripetal or centrifugal) is present in Switzerland, where multiple languages can peacfully co-exist
centripetal
What kind of force (centripetal or centrifugal) is present in Belgium, where there is a sharp linguistic divide
centrifugal
Difference between centripetal force and centrifugal force
Centripetal force unifies people and centrifugal force pulls people apart