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Pop/Folk Culture
Language
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Ethnicity
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a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.

Local Culture

100
What is a dialect?
Regional variation of a language?
100
Name two ethnic religions.
Hinduism, Judaism, Shinto
100
What is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country?
Nationality
100
How does language affect culture?
Language is the foundation of culture. Language allows for the spread of culture and the communication of habits and customs.
200
This culture is found among homogeneous groups.
Folk Culture
200

What is a Lingua Franca?

Common language of communication. (Trade language)

200
Why is Israel/Jerusalem a hotbed of religious conflict?
Three major religions claim Jerusalem as a holy city / Land division post WWII.
200
What is the mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence?
Genocide
200

What is an institutional language, or "de facto" official language?

The primary language used in institutions but is not the official language.

300
What describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single nation or region
What is Multiculturalism
300

Which language is being described? -Bantu-based East African language -Spoken by 30 million Africans -Used to speak with outsiders from different villages

Swahili

300
How are ethnic religions spread?
Relocation Diffusion
300
What is the goal of ethnic cleansing?
To create an ethnically homogeneous society.
300

Which language is the most widely spoken first-language in the world?

Mandarin

400
Where does Popular Culture usually start?
Large cities and urban areas.
400
Which two language families make up 2/3 of all languages spoken?
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan
400

What are three universalizing religions?

Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism

400

List two examples of ethnic cleansing.

Holocaust, Balkans, Rwanda

400

What are three of the eight factors contributing to modern residential segregation?

Redlining, gentrification, affinity, market forces, white flight, public service provision, violence, legal segregation

500
How are the terms 'habit,' 'custom,' and 'culture' related?
An act repeated by an individual is a habit. If multiple people perform a habit, it becomes a custom. Multiple customs performed or observed by a group constitute a culture.
500

What is the official language of the United States?

Trick question - the U.S. does NOT have an official language.

500

Name one major religious hearth and the religions that originated there.

India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism

SW Asia - Judaism, Christianity, Islam

East Asia - Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto

500

Where are the following groups clustered in the United States (3 groups, 3 regions)? Latinx Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans

Latinx Americans: Clustered in the Southwest African Americans: Clustered in the Southeast Asian Americans: Clustered in the West

500

In what countries are the Kurdish ethnic group mostly located? (100 points per correct country)

Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria