Culture Shock (Folk Vs Pop Culture)
This type of culture is typical of large, heterogeneous groups and spreads rapidly across space
What is Popular Culture?
This is the term for a language of international communication (like English) used by speakers of different native tongues to facilitate trade.
What is a Lingua Franca?
This is the world’s largest universalizing religion.
What is Christianity?
This is the term for the birthplace or source area of a civilization or cultural innovation.
What is a Culture Hearth?
This is a place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from the surrounding area
What is an Ethnic Enclave?
This category of culture includes non-physical items, such as the teachings of Confucianism, rather than tangible goods like jeans or houses.
What is Nonmaterial Culture?
These are regional variations of a language characterized by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What are Dialects?
This is the term for religions that believe in the existence of only one god.
What is Monotheism?
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity all share a hearth in this specific global region.
The Middle East (specifically Southwest Asia and the Levant/Eastern Mediterranean region). This area serves as the foundational birthplace for all three Abrahamic, monotheistic faiths, with many key events and holy sites for these religions located in this region.
This process occurs when a minority group's cultural identity becomes indistinguishable from the dominant culture over several generations.
What is Assimilation?
The globalization of popular culture often leads to this, where diverse locations (like those featuring McDonald's "Golden Arches") begin to look identical.
What is a Uniform Landscape
This specific European language is considered a "vigorous and isolated" language because it has remained relatively unchanged and is unrelated to others.
What is Basque?
Unlike universalizing faiths, these religions appeal primarily to one group of people living in one specific place.
What are Ethnic Religions?
The spread of soccer via British colonization is an example of this specific type of diffusion.
What is Relocation Diffusion?
These racist laws were used to physically and geographically divide people by skin color in South Africa.
What is Apartheid?
This specific sport is noted by geographers for having a significant, visible impact on the physical environment ( I SAID THIS IN NOTES I SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER IT)
What is golf?
English belongs to this specific linguistic branch. (This one is ROUGH whoever picked this)
What is the Germanic Branch?
This religious movement seeks to return to the strict, literal foundations of a faith and often attempts to influence government policy.
What is Religious Fundamentalism?
When fashion trends spread from major global centers like Paris or New York down to smaller cities, it is known as this type of diffusion.
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
This practice involved real estate agents convincing white homeowners to sell their property at low prices by stoking fears that Black families would move in.
What is Blockbusting?
In folk culture, building materials for housing—such as sod or logs—are most strongly influenced by these.
What are Local Resources (or Environmental Conditions)?
This type of language, such as Gullah, results from mixing a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What is Creolized Language?
Religions that combine several different traditions into one, common in Chinese traditional beliefs, are known by this term. (Yall.. goodluckkkkkk on this one)
What is Syncretic?
Unlike many universalizing religions with clear founders, this major ethnic religion has origins that are relatively unknown.
What is Hinduism?
In the United States, African Americans are most heavily clustered in this geographic region.
What is the Southeast?