cultural traits
Nancy wears a headband to school every single day. What is Nancy an example of?
A habit
What is The Golden Gate Bridge is an example of?
cultural landscape
What is the #1 most widely used language family and how many branches does it have?
Indo-European (language family) and it has 8 branches.
Are centrifugal forces push or pull factors?
Push factors (Bad)
What is the identifiable elements of a culture?
Culture Traits
Neil is the governor of his small village. One day Neil noticed the beginning of a scarcity in bread production and the amounts available for his village. So, Neil hired more employees for the bread factories to increase the amounts of bread. What is Neil displaying?
Neil is displaying environmental possibilism.
John lives in Kentucky. One day, John saw a commercial advertising a new song by BTS (a Korean-Pop Boy band), while watching TV. John LOVED their new song and showed it to his family and friends. How would you describe John's attitude?
He is using multiculturalism.
Trade and migration can cause connections to be formed between people who share the same language. However, with less interaction (when people migrate), languages tend to develop differently and make changes.
How are languages becoming different? For example, English in the United States v.s. English in England.
Languages are becoming different with less interaction and migration, also because of a lack of spatial interaction.
Explain a centripetal force v.s. a centrifugal force.
Centripetal: a force that unifies people
Centrifugal: a force that pulls people apart
What is an example of an artifact for a bat/bar mitzvah?
Dress, after party, eating a meal
Deb is kosher due to her religion. Her food preferences are influenced by her dietary laws. What is this called (when religion puts a restriction on behavior, etc.)?
Taboo
What do the leaves, branches, and trunk represent in a language family tree?
Leaves: individual languages
Branches: language branches
Trunk: language families
Edwin speaks english and is doing a history project on where his language comes from. Edwin goes to his mom and asks her where english came from, and she said that English is from the Romance Language family, also including Spanish, French, and Italian. Is Edwin's mom correct or incorrect and why?
Edwin's mom is incorrect. English may have many words derived from Romance languages, however English is classified as part of the Germanic Branch.
What is sequent occupance?
When successive societies leave behind a collection of evidence (cultural imprint) on a geographic region and this shapes cultural landscape.
The Jones family practices the religion of Christianity. They attend church every Sunday.
Which cultural trait is this an example of?
Mentifact
Jen is able to talk to her friends in Kenya everyday, thanks to improvements in technology. She is helping them to learn english! What has improved communication technology created?
Globalization
Name the five classifications languages are organized into and the order they are in
institutional language, developing language, vigorous language, threatened language, and dying language
Every time Molly visits her grandparents, they speak the language they grew up speaking in their native village. Molly can understand them, but she does not know how to speak it back because it is not written. What is Molly's grandparents language an example of?
A vigorous language
What is the contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes (known by French term)?
Terroir
In the United States, Brands like: Gucci, Chanel, Tesla, Ferarri, etc. give connotations of wealth, success, and high social status. What is the term for this?
cultural complex
Milo went to Taco Bell with his family for dinner. Outside the restaurant, Milo saw a billboard with an advertisement for "Fried Frog Fingers: French and China Cuisine". DISGUSTING Milo thought. What is Milo guilty of?
Ethnocentrism
How did languages diffused throughout history?
The community of Beverly Hills came together to create a public park. All members living in the community came to help build benches, playgrounds, pavilions, etc. for the park. What is this community-driven process called?
Placemaking
What is it called when a language is written in symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words?