Culture
Language
Religion
Grab Bag
100
The biggest hinderance to this culture is lack of access to TV or internet.
Pop Culture
100

What is a dialect?

Regional variation of a language.

100

Name two ethnic religions.

Hinduism, Judaism, Shintoism.

100

What is the combining of two or more cultural traits to create something new?

Syncretism

200
This culture is found among homogeneous groups.
Folk Culture
200

What is a Lingua Franca?

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.

200

What is the fastest-growing religion?

Islam

200

When two languages are mixed together it is called....

Creolization (informally pidgin)

300

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

Multiculturalism

300
Which language is being described? -First language of only 800,000 people -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 an example of an isolated language?

Basque

400

What is the judgement of a culture based on its unique traits without prejudice?

Cultural Relativism 

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

What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation? 

Acculturation is when people within one culture adopt elements of another while keeping their own distinct/unique language. ASsimilation is when the interaction of two cultures causes one culture to adopt almost all of the traits of the other without retaining its own distinct culture. 

500

In this culture, it is taboo to eat beef.

Hindu

500

What are the four places where English is the primary language, but not the official language?

USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand

500

Where is the hearth of Islam?

Saudi Arabia (Mecca and Medina)

500

What is the difference between centripetal and centrifugal forces?

Centripetal forces unify a state (provide stability, strengthen, bind together, create solidarity)

Centrifugal forces divide a state (lead to balkanization/devolution, disrupt internal order,

destabilize, weaken).