Cultural Basics and Traits
Cultural Landscapes
Diffusion
Language
Religion
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Cultures within different countries becoming much more like each other due to modern prevalence of, and access to popular culture illustrates this concept
What is cultural convergence?
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La Plaza de las Tres Culturas best reflects this essential aspect of studying cultural landscapes found in topic 3.2 EK1.
What is sequent occupance?
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The spread of authentic Mexican restaurants throughout the Southwestern U.S. along with the influx of Mexican immigrants in the late 90's to early 2000's is an example of this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
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Swahili in East Africa and the African Union, and English in global commerce and pop culture are examples of this language concept.
What is lingua franca?
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It is a universalizing religion that originated in South Asia, but contagiously diffused throughout East and Southeast Asia.
What is Buddhism?
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Believing men should work while women stay in the home would qualify as a shared this, from topic 3.1 EK1.
What is an attitude (belief)?
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Comparing both photographs, each image shows the significance of temples, religious statuary, and iconography on their own respective this.
What is cultural landscape?
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This term best describes the spatial effects of the Internets rapid global diffusion of culture.
What is time-space compression?
What is space-time compression?
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The Gullah language is spoken in African-American communities of the coastal southeastern United States is a combination of Elizabethan English and African dialects that can be described as this.
What is creolized?
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Hinduism's hearth can be found in the southern region of this continent.
What is Asia?
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The Rwandan Genocide is a prime example from history of the concept of this as a centrifugal force within in a state.
What is ethnicity?
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A shared belief of ethnocentrism that discourages the mixing of different cultures or ethnicities could lead to these developing within a cultural landscape.
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
What are ethnic enclaves?
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Christianity came to dominate South and Central America through this type of diffusion when the Spanish colonized Central America in the sixteenth century.
What is relocation diffusion?
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The missing language branch found in the sequence of language family to dialect below:
Indo-European>________>English>Southern U.S.
What is Germanic?
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Because it is localized, mostly spreading through relocation diffusion, it is a direct reflection of a person's heritage, and its holy sites are tied to physical environment, Hinduism would qualify as this type of religion.
What is an ethnic religion?
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The architectural style of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico city comes from the influence of this historic colonial power.
Who are the Spanish?
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Because of the influence of Spanish Catholicism during the colonial period, the image below would most likely come from a cultural landscape within this region of the United States.
What is the Southwest?
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Historically, colonialism and imperialism were the biggest diffusers of language. In the modern world, its this.
What is technology?
What is the internet?
What is social media?
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The 6 official languages used by the United Nations include English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, and this.
What is Arabic?
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This world city is most likely to be the location the highest concentration of devoutly religious individuals actively engaged in worship at any given time.
What is Mecca?
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Internet penetration rates have a significant effect on a society's access to this type of culture.
What is pop culture?
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Because of food taboos, a world map of hog production per capita would likely reveal the lowest values in this region.
What is the Middle East?
What is North Africa?
What is the Arab world?
What is Southwest Asia?
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English and German crafters using feldspar and bone rather than the traditional kaolin used in China to recreate the porcelain they traded for on the silk road would exemplify this type of diffusion.
What is stimulus diffusion?
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According to the language tree, English surprisingly comes from the same language family (Indo-European) as this most widely spoken language of India.
What is Hindi?
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Buddhism diffusing through East Asia and blending with local cultural customs to create distinct religious practices, such as Daoism in China and Shintoism in Japan is an example of this cultural process.
What is syncretism?