Culture and Cultural Traits
This term refers to the shared beliefs, customs, traditions, and behaviors of a group of people.
What is culture.
This term describes the visible imprint of human culture on the natural environment.
What is a cultural landscape?
This geographic process occurs when cultural ideas, practices, or innovations spread from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism are classified as this type of religion because they seek followers across different cultures.
What are universalizing religions?
European powers spread their languages, religions, and customs across overseas territories through this historical process.
What is colonialism?
Food, clothing, architecture, and tools are examples of this.
What are artifacts?
Traditional adobe homes in the American Southwest demonstrate how buildings can adapt to this local environmental condition.
What is a hot, dry climate?
Immigrants moving to a new country and bringing their language and food traditions with them demonstrate this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
Hinduism and Judaism are commonly classified as this type of religion, which is closely associated with a particular people, place, or cultural heritage.
What are ethnic religions?
Global communication networks, international trade, and technology have accelerated this process of increasing worldwide interconnectedness.
What is globalization?
Beliefs, values, and ideas belong to this category of culture. Ideas about punctuality are an example.
What are mentifacts.
The widespread appearance of similar chain restaurants, shopping centers, and buildings in different cities is an example of this phenomenon.
What is a placelessness (or a standardized landscape)?
A viral internet trend spreads rapidly from person to person without regard to social status. This is an example of this type of diffusion.
What is contagious diffusion?
Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese all developed from this language and are part of the Romance language branch.
What is Latin?
The blending of elements from two or more religions or cultures into a new cultural practice is known as this.
What is syncretism?
A culture's traditional methods of organizing families, governments, and social relationships are examples of these.
What are sociofacts.
Signs in both English and Spanish throughout a city are an example of how this cultural characteristic appears in the landscape.
What is language (or linguistic diversity)?
A fashion trend begins with famous celebrities and then spreads to the general public. This illustrates this type of diffusion.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
This term describes a simplified language that develops so speakers of different languages can communicate, often for trade.
What is pidgin?
Immigrants adopt some cultural practices of their new country while maintaining elements of their original culture. This process is known as what?
What is acculturation?
A geographer studies a culture on its own terms rather than judging it by the standards of another culture. This approach is called what?
What is cultural relativism.
A sacred mountain, national monument, or historic battlefield that holds deep emotional meaning for a community illustrates this geographic concept.
What is sense of place?
A global fast-food company introduces vegetarian versions of its products in India to reflect local dietary customs. This illustrates this type of diffusion.
What is stimulus diffusion?
English, Hindi, Russian, and Persian all belong to this major language family.
What is the Indo-European language family?
A minority group gradually adopts the language and practices of the dominant culture, potentially losing its distinctive cultural identity. This process is called what?
What is assimilation?