Types of Diffusion
The spread of a cultural trait through the migration of people
What is relocation?
What is imperialism?
As a cultural trait diffuses, the people who adopt it might alter it. Things change over distance and time.
What is friction of distance?
The largest language family
What is Indo-European?
Flat
What is an apartment?
The spread of a cultural trait through the interaction between people
What is expansion?
When a powerful country establishes settlements in a less powerful country for economic and/or political gain
What is colonialism?
The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world without regard to borders or barriers.
What is globalization?
The second largest language family, it is concentrated in East and Southeast Asia.
What is Sino-Tibetan?
Lift
What is an elevator?
Time-space compression and globalization have accelerated ________ diffusion via the internet and smart phones
What is contagious?
An extremely simplified limited non-native language...spoken in Hawaii for example
What is pidgin?
DAILY DOUBLE
KPOP is an example of cultural _________, the process of two or more cultures coming into contact with each other and adopting each other's traits to become more alike.
What is convergence?
Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian belong to this branch
What are romance languages?
Loo
What is a bathroom?
Cell phones were first only owned by the wealthy in large cities, overtime they became mass-produced and spread to a wider market.
What is hierarchial?
World lingua franca language
What is English?
The results of time-space convergence and the widespread diffusion of popular culture. The loss of indigenous _______ for example.
What is language?
DAILY DOUBLE
English grows on this branch
What is Germanic?
Wardrobe
What is a closet?
What is stimulus?
The world's most spoken language
What is Mandarin?
In Turkey, the ________ are forbidden by the government to print or formally teach their language.
Who are the Kurds?
tennis shoe....sneaker, soda.....pop for example
What is an American isogloss?
Torch
What is a flashlight?