Culture 1
Torch vs flashlight or Loo vs bathroom are examples of _________ in the English language.
Dialects
This type of culture is from a generalized region, but cannot be traced back to a specific place...
What is Folk Culture?
A group's learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects are a part of...
What is Culture?
This term refers to the adopted language of the governments.
What is official language?
This type of culture can be traced back to a specific point of origin...
What is Pop Culture?
What region of the world is the cultural hearth for the Abrahamic religions?
What is the Middle East?
When speakers of two different languages have extensive contact with each other, often because of trade, they sometimes develop a....
Pidgin Language
Without full assimilation, most receiving societies, such as the United States, are characterized by ____________, the coexistence of several cultures in one society with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worthy of study.
Multiculturalism.
This term refers to religions that accept all people regardless of ethnicity or circumstance.
Universalizing
Physical artifacts that humans have created that form a part of the landscape.
What is the Built Environment?
Islamic law that has been incorporated into the government of Iran and now Afghanistan is known as what?
What is Sharia?
What is the term that states one's own culture is the best or better than other cultures?
What is Ethnocentricism?
Louisiana, Quebec, and Vietnam were all colonized by which European power?
France
A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in which of the following regions?
SE Asia, W. Europe, Middle East, or China
Middle East
The forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans is best defined as...
What is Cultural Landscape?
What term best represents our shrinking world?
What is Space-Time Compression?
The Spanish colonized the Philippines in the 16th Century and brought Christianity with them thereby diffusing into the Philippines. What type of diffusion is this?
What is relocation diffusion?
The US Government educated Native American children in American-style boarding schools. All of the children were taught English, and girls were taught to be homemakers. What concept does this best represent?
What is Assimilation?
This term refers to the common language spoken between countries who speak different native languages.
What is Lingua Franca?
Social status, wealth, age, entertainment, media, sports, freedom, independence, self-reliance, rite of passage, "sweet 16", midlife crisis - these are all aspects that can play into how someone views the exact same thing - for example, a car. What is this concept known as?
What is Complex Culture?
Cultural differences within a country’s population, such as different religions, languages, and ethnicities, have political impacts and can best be described as...
What are centrifugal forces.
As Buddhism diffused through East Asia, Buddhist traditions blended with local cultural customs to create distinct religious practices, such as Daoism in China and Shinto in Japan. What term best describes this blending of cultural traditions?
What is Syncretism?
Increasing sales of clothing brands endorsed by professional athletes to customers in Europe best exemplifies what type of diffusion?
Hierarchical.
Act of adopting a piece or a portion of another's culture (often the majority adopting from a minority culture/Can easily become offensive)
What is Cultural Appropriation?