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What is the difference between traditional culture and pop culture?
Traditional culture is a culture that has long-established beliefs, behaviors, and practices.
Pop culture is fast and wide spreading of beliefs, behaviors, and boundaries.
What is a cultural hearth?
A cultural hearth is the origin of a hobby, food, culture, idea, etc.
What is a endageded languge?
It is a small group of people that speak a language that is dissipering conpleatly.
What is a state?
An orgnized indpented place w/ gov. and different borders.
Wah is the difference between a untary and federal state?
A unitary state is 1 single gov. and a federal state dived power between branches.
What is a cultural landscape and what is an example in Durango?
It is a natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs.
Ex: The architecture in the old buildings downtown and the new houses.
The mixed ethnicity is shown in Durango's population.
What are 5 barriers to diffusion?
Geographical, language, religion/beliefs, economics, and resistance to change.
What is animism?
It is a belife system that gives a spiritual essentials to all things.
What is a stateless nation and what is an example?
A stateless nation is a group of people who have a shared culture/ identity but don't belong to a state.
Ex:The kurds
What is a packed district and what is an example?
A packed district is when lawmakers put a bunch of Republicans or democratic in a cretin area to gain the majority vote.
Ex: Putting African Americans into Alabama to gain the Republican vote.
What are gender spaces and what is an example of them?
Spaces in the cultural landscape to accommodate gender roles.
Ex: Women in the kitchen.
What are the 3 kinds of expansion diffusion and what are they?
Contagious(Fast spreading usually a disease or something viral), Hierarchial(spreads through power(Kings/Gov.), and Stimulus(Something chargers as it spreads over time.)
What is a unversial religoin and an example?
A world wide and fast spreding religion through contagusis diffusion.
Ex:Christanty, Islam, Buddhism
What are choke point and how do they economically benefit their country that controls them?
A choke point is a point of congestion in trad, and it benefits the country that controls them because everyone need to pay the country to pass.
What are 2 potential dangers of nationalism?
2 dangers of nationalism is the destruction of minority groups and can lead to conflict.
How dose postmodernism relate to the idea of a cultural landscape?
Postmodernism came from modern or urban architecture and it helps show how developed a city/place is.
What is colonialism and imperialism and what is the difference between them?
Colonialism is mainly focused on Gov. and is one power controlling everything.
Imperialism is Governing a place outside of a country, enforcing rules, and gaining territory.
What is the differince between languge convergence and divergence?
Convergence is the blend of 2 languges overtime and divergence is the result of a groups bounderes and barriers.
What is devolution, and how is ussr an example of that.
Devolution is a central power that is broken up in a state. The USSR broke up and created 15 new countrys.
What is reappointment and how does it relate to Pennsylvania?
Reappointment occurs when a state loses or gains people, so seats in the House of Representatives are recalled to different states. Pennsylvania has not increased its population in many years, causing it to lose a seat.
What is the cultural landscape of Africa and would Africa ba a centrfugal or centripetal force?
One aspect of the cultural landcape of affrica is that there are hundreds of different ethnic groups living together making it a centripetal force.
What are the romance languages and what languages are included?
Romance languages are languages that have been around for a long time and have mostly stayed the same, they include Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Catalan.
What do geographers focus on when looking at religions distribution?
They focus on the place of origin, wahys of diiifushion, and contemporary cultures.
Waht is the DMZ and what 2 countries border the DMZ?
The DMZ is the demilaterized zone between north and south korea.
What are the 4 constitunet units that make up the united kingdom?
England, Scotland, wales, and northern ireland.