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Four types of cultural diffusion
Stimulus, Relocation, Hierarchical, and Contagious
Name the continent that the Gullah and Geechee people came from.
Africa
Form of communicating. Can be written, verbal, symbols, or hand gestured
Language
Way of life of a group of people
Culture
What is the difference between a monotheistic and polytheistic religion?
Monotheistic - worship one god
Polytheistic - worship many gods
The spread of the "Island Boy" video is an example of this type of diffusion
Contagious diffusion
The Gullah and Geechee people live in _______ areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
Coastal
What is the language used for the purpose of trade and commerce by those who don't speak the same language
Lingua franca
A center place or origin of a cultural is called a:
Cultural hearth
This ethnic groups can be found in Iraq, Turkey and Syria. They have no homeland.
Kurds
Aztecs people brought their knowledge of maize to the Americas. This is an example of what type of diffusion?
Relocation diffusion
Why do Gullah descendants paint their porches and shutters blue?
To ward off evil spirits and protect their house
a simplified form of a language used for communication between people with different languages. It develops from a mixture of two languages
Pidgin language
When an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group and adopts the culture of the dominant group
Assimilation
Religions that seek to convert members. Give an example
Universal religions. Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
Pizza Hut has a vegemite pizza in Australia. This is an example of what type of diffusion?
Stimulus diffusion
Africans brought knowledge of this crop to the US
Rice
a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with an indigenous language. Often they are pidgins.
Creole
This type of culture is generally more associated with small, homogenous, traditional communities.
folk culture
Little Italy, Chinatown, and Little Havana are example of _____________ ____________
Ethnic enclaves
Describe hierarchical diffusion and provide an example.
The idea starts at the top and spreads to the next most relevant group then to the next.
Why can't we say Gullah/Geechee culture is from a specific part of Africa?
Gullah/Geechee culture derives from separate tribes in west Africa
What is "code switching"?
it is a phenomenon that happens in societies with different dialects, where people may quickly switch back and forth between dialects depending on the situation and the person they are talking to at the moment.
This type of culture is found in large heterogeneous societies, usually in developed countries, and traceable to one person, corporation, or location…
popular culture
US as a melting pot
US as a salad bowl
What is meant by each?
Melting pot - Different cultures in America blend together to form one American culture
Salad bowl - each cultural group in America is together but maintains it's distinctiveness.