Cultural Landscapes
A groups learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects
What is culture?
The spread of a cultural trait by people who migrate and bring their cultural traits with them
What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of a feature or trend from one place to another
Diffusion
Trade language, used commonly by people who don't share the same language
What is a lingua franca?
Culture seen through objects and architecture
What is material culture?
The source where a religion or ethnicity began
What is a cultural hearth
The hearth for Blues music is in the South, but other musicians heard it from other places and it spread to major cities such as Chicago and New York
What is Contagious diffusion?
In developing countries, the diffusion of pop culture is blocked because of...
What is lack of access to electricity/ lack of income?
A simplified mixture of two languages
What is a pigdin language?
A Hindu or Buddhist temple
What is a pagoda?
A membership in a group of people that share characteristics such as ancestry, language, customs, etc.
What is ethnicity?
When people in a culture adopt and underlying idea or process but modify it because they reject one of its traits
What is stimulus diffusion?
Professional sports are rapidly diffused by...
What is TV?
Two or more languages mix together over time creating a formal language, such as Swahili
What is a creole language?
A member of any of the Western Christian churches
What is a protestant?
Not eating pork in the Jewish or Muslim community
What is a taboo?
Celebrities will wear different clothes which in turn starts trends because people want to be like them, and then it spreads all over the world
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The most popular lingua franca
What is English?
Scientists that study languages
What is a linguist?
McDonald's changes its menu to match the countries standards and opinions, which is an example of...
What is glocalization?
Corn was first grown in Mexico around 10,000 years ago, and it is still grown there today
What is folk culture?
When Walmart first began by spreading to small cities in Arkansas
What is reverse hierarchical diffusion?
Three examples of globalized languages
English, Spanish, French, Arabic
The names of places formally known, that reflect culture
What is a toponym?
The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs
What is a diaspora?