General Culture
Some more Culture
Culture/Language
Religion
Race/Ethnicity
100
a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior. Also called built environment
What is Cultural landscape
100
Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitian city and constructed by or composed of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.
What is Ethnic Neighborhood
100
Latin diffused in the ____________ languages of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and French
What is Romance
100
The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct. Believes in Patriarchy and is mostly found throughout China
What is Confucianism
100
Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture.
What is Ethnicity
200
Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban based, media influenced western societies. Creates uniformity in the world
What is Pop Culture
200
The process though which something is given monetary value.
What is Commodification
200
A regional variation of a language which reflects environmental features and that is distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. Usually speakers of one _______ can understand each other.
What is Dialect
200
the boundaries between the world's major faiths, such as Christianity,Islam, and Buddhism.
What is interfaith boundaries
200
Habit of evaluating other cultures, customs, beliefs, practices according to the limited perspective of one's own culture.
What is Ethnocentrism
300
cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.
What is Folk Culture
300
Placelessness
What is the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.
300
language that begun as pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue
What is Creole Language
300
If physically and financially able, a Muslim makes a pilgrimage to Makkah. (Mecca) They usually make the trip around Ramadan. This pilgrimage is also referred to as ________________ It is important because Islam is one of the most popular religions practiced around the world.
What is Hajj
300
Estate agents and buildings developers encourage white property owners to sell houses at loss saying minorities moving in neighborhood are bringing down prices. Creates "White Flight"
What is Blockbusting
400
The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people.
What is Material Culture
400
The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. When one culture gets sucked into another (native Americans )
What is Assimilate
400
the variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life.
What is Standard Language
400
The belief that inanimate objects have spirits
What is Animism
400
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Armenians in Turkey, Kurds in Iraq, Tutsis in Rwanda , Sudan Darfur are all examples of this
500
The beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of people.
What is Non-material culture
500
The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit.
What is Cultural Appropriation
500
with respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own
What is Reterritorialization
500
Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India.
What is Sikhism
500
In South Africa the system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party government who were the ruling party from 1948-1994.
What is Apartheid
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