Cultural Aspects and Traditions
Language
Dialects
Vocabulary
Picture association
100
True or False:
Habits are a part of culture.
False
100
Is language a centripetal or centrifugal force?
Both, language can pull people together or push people apart.
100
Are issoglosses 100% accurate?
No, they are not 100% accurate.
100
What is culture?
The way of life of a group of people
100
What is this an example of
Folk culture
200
Pop culture or folk culture:
A girl in Japan gets a pair of ripped jeans for her birthday.
Pop culture
200
What are the three different ways a language can be related to one another?
Language branch, language family, and language group.
200
What are the 4 regions of dialects in the United States?
The south, the midland, the north, and the west
200
What is a dialect?
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinct vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation.
200
What type of diffusion is this?
Contagious diffusion
300
What are the two elements of a culture?
The daily needs of a culture and the leisure activities of a culture. These make a culture unique.
300
What are three examples of an informal language?
Franglais, Spanglish, and Denglish
300
Who changed the spelling of many words to separate America from the British?
Noah Webster
300
What is ethnocentric?
The belief that one's culture is better than anothers.
300
What type of diffusion is this
Stimulus diffusion
400
What type of diffusion is this:
A girl moves from America to China and shows off her cropped top. All of her friends in China love it and start to buy it. Then the trend starts to spread quickly.
Relocation Diffusion
400
Which language in the Germanic branch has the most users?
English
400
What is the main dialect spoken in the Appalachian mountain?
Appalachian English
400
What is sequent occupancy?
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural impact on a place, contributing to the cultural landscape.
400
What is this an example of
Dialect
500
Sociofact or mentifact:
At a bat mitzvah party, the girl has a father-daughter dance with her dad.
Sociofact
500
Is this an example of a dying language, threatened language, vigorous language, developing language, or institutional language?
This language has many users, but many of these users are older and they are not passing them on to their children.
Dying language
500
How could dialects be a centrifugal force?
If someone is discriminated for their dialect, people can be driven apart.
500
What is placemaking?
When someone takes a place and makes it more like their own culture.
500
What would this be an example of 
Syncretism