Cultural Patterns & Processes
When immigrants open a restaurant in a new country and adjust their recipes to local tastes, like making sushi rolls with avocado, they’re showing this process of adjusting to a new culture.
What is cultural adaptation?
Just as pasta dishes in Italy and noodles in China both trace back to ancient grain-based traditions, English and Hindi share ancient roots through this type of language grouping.
What is a language family?
While sandwiches exist in many parts of the world, their ingredients and styles differ based on local traditions and cultural influences like languages. This concept explains how culture varies from place to place.
what is cultural landscape?
When traders from different countries can’t speak the same native tongue but create a simple “menu” of shared words to talk about food or trade, they’re using this.
What is a pidgin language?
When tacos spread from Mexico to the U.S. and beyond, this process of sharing cultural ideas and foods is at work.
What is cultural diffusion?
Just as tomatoes are used around the world in many cuisines despite cultural differences, this term describes a shared language used between people who speak different native languages.
What is a lingua franca?
From vineyards in France to rice terraces in Asia, the ways humans shape the land to grow and prepare food reflect this visible imprint of culture on the landscape.
What is a cultural landscape?
When African and European cooking styles blend into dishes like gumbo, the same kind of linguistic blending happens when two languages merge to form this.
What is a creole language?
When every city has the same fast-food chains and coffee shops, and local dishes start to disappear, it shows this loss of unique cultural flavor.
What is placelessness?
Just as French fries are called “chips” in Britain and “frites” in France, these regional variations in language give flavor to how people speak.
What is a dialect?