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Pop/Folk Culture
Language
Religion
Patterns in Cultural Landscape
Grab Bag
100

The biggest hinderance to this culture is lack of access to TV or internet.

What is Pop Culture?

100

Regional variation of a single language

What is dialect?

100

Name two ethnic religions.

Hinduism, Judaism, Animism

100

Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth

What is ethnicity?

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

International language of communication. (Trade language)

What is a lingua franca?

200

Place that is a hotbed of religious conflict because three major religions claim it as a holy city (result of land divisions post WWII)

What is Israel/Jerusalem?

200

Characteristics that divide a country and may create instability, conflict and violence.

What are centrifugal forces?

200

Three historic causes of cultural diffusion

Imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, trade, relocation

300

Describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single nation or region

What is Multiculturalism

300

First language of only 800,000 people -Spoken by 30 million Africans -Used to speak with outsiders from different villages ('de facto' language of Africa)

What is Swahili?

300

The main process by which ethnic religions are spread

What is relocation diffusion?

300

Behaviors that are heavily discouraged within a certain culture (e.g. eating pork in Jewish and Islamic culture)

What are cultural taboos? 

300

The process of a culture restricting contact with other cultures in an attempt to retain its originality

What is cultural divergence?

400

Locations in which popular culture usually begins and definitely thrives

What are 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?
What are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
400

Examples of visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group's culture (identify at least 2)

What are artifacts, sociofacts, mentifacts?

400

Regional patterns of this culture include the Roman Catholic religion and shared history of European colonization

What is Latin American culture?

500

The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.

What is sequent occupance?

500
What are the four places where English is the primary language, but not the official language?
USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand
500

Which religions share a common hearth?

Christianity and Judaism- Israel; Hinduism and Buddhism- India

500

Where are the following groups clustered in the United States? Latin Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans

Latin Americans: Clustered in the Southwest... African Americans: Clustered in the Southeast... Asian Americans: Clustered in the West

500

Locations that help indicate the role of women within a certain society or culture

What are gendered spaces?