Culture Basics
This term refers to a society's arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, inventions, language, technology, and values.
What is culture?
A variety of a language spoken by a specific group or region.
What is a dialect?
Where is the Home of Unity and Belonging (HUB) located?
What is the Allen House?
This annual Mexican holiday honors deceased loved ones with altars, food, and flowers.
What is Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?
This Italian dish, often made with layers of pasta, meat, and cheese, is a traditional comfort food eaten during holidays.
What is lasagna?
A fairly large number of people, who live in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside the area, and participate in a common culture.
What is society?
In Spanish, the informal plural "you" used in Spain is called this.
What is vosotros?
What are the three pillars of the HUB?
What is home, unity, and belonging?
This Jewish ceremony marks the coming-of-age of a 13-year-old boy or girl, including reading from the Torah and communal celebration.
What is Bar/Bat Mitzvah?
In Greece, this layered pastry made with filo dough, nuts, and honey is often served during holidays and celebrations.
What is baklava?
A general belief about a group of people that is often oversimplified.
What is a stereotype?
Switzerland has 4 national languages. Name 2.
What is German, French, Italian, and Romanish?
This group of students at Cedar Crest support multicultural learning and relationship building by organizing educational programs and serving as mentors through mission‑driven services.
What is student mission advocate?
This Indian festival is known as the “festival of lights,” celebrating good over evil.
What is Diwali?
In Spain, this dish of rice, saffron, seafood, and meats originated in Valencia and is often cooked in a wide, shallow pan over an open flame.
What is paella?
Tell me three elements of culture.
What are language, norms, sanctions, values, traditions, etc?
Tagalog is one of the official languages of this Southeast Asian country.
What is the Phillipines?
Who is the Vice President of Mission Integration and Strategy?
Who is Dr. Leon John, Jr?
During certain joyous celebrations, participants throw ceramic objects to the ground as a symbolic act meant to release negativity, celebrate abundance, and mark communal festivity—a practice still visible in some modern dances and wedding ceremonies.
What is the Greek plate-breaking tradition?
Prepared during lunar festivals, this intricate sweet involves steaming or frying flour-based dough with honey or syrup, its geometry encoding cosmology and marking the rhythm of celestial and agricultural cycles.
What is moon cake?
The unwritten rules of communication like personal space, eye contact, and tone.
What is nonverbal communication?
In what direction is arabic wrote in?
What is right to left?
This signature global experience at Cedar Crest College, named for a former president who championed equitable access to study abroad, guarantees every eligible sophomore a fully funded short‑term international learning trip as part of their education.
What is the Carmen Twillie Ambar Sophomore Expedition?
During this festival, participants throw colored powders and water on each other to celebrate the arrival of spring, the triumph of good over evil, and the playful legend of Krishna and Radha.
What is Holi?
This small, custard-filled pastry, originally developed by Catholic monks using leftover egg yolks, is traditionally baked in high-heat ovens until the tops caramelize, reflecting centuries of Iberian monastic culinary innovation.
What is pastel de nata (Portugal)?