The dominance of one culture over another. Part of a criticism toward elements of popular culture that have origins in the west (North America and Europe).
What is cultural imperialism?
100
Material culture consists of what you wear, eat, and this.
What is where you live (your house).
100
When a migrant brings aspects of their culture to their new destination country, it is described as this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
100
On a language tree, the trunk represents this division of language.
What is a language family?
100
Of the Indo-European family of languages, this is the most widely spread.
What is English?
200
Popular culture typically spreads through communications technologies such as television and Internet, described as this type of diffusion.
What is hierarchical?
200
Denim jeans and McDonald's hamburgers are a part of this type of culture.
What is popular culture?
200
When a dominant culture requires others to adopt their cultural features, such as language, manner of dress, and religious values, it is known as this.
What is assimilation?
200
A language universally acknowledged for economic and political transactions.
What is a lingua franca?
200
A branch on the Indo-European family of languages where you might find Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian.
What is the Romance Branch?
300
When an immigrant moves into a country with a dominant popular culture, they may voluntarily adopt features of that culture while preserving some elements of their own culture, known as this.
What is acculturation.
300
This type of culture is said to be less sustainable due to heavy and uniform demands on resources.
What is popular culture?
300
The mixing of cultural values that are both folk and popular is described as this.
What is syncretism?
300
This is the division between language regions.
What is an isogloss?
300
Two groups that contributed to the English language are the Angles and this group.
Who are the Saxons (or Danes)?
400
Many aspects of popular culture create a homogenous group (meaning you find the same products no matter where you go), a term known as this.
What is uniform landscape.
400
The popularity of this popular culture sport has a vast impact on the environment due to clearing of vegetation and utilization of water resources for greenery.
What is golf?
400
One positive aspect of popular culture is the disappearance of certain practices tied to gender inequality, such as requiring a bride's family to pay this.
What is dowry?
400
This type of language is a fusion of multiple languages brought together through the phenomenon of colonization.
What is creole?
400
This language is not on the Germanic or Roman branch of the Indo-European tree, rather, it has its own branch. English, French, Romanian, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, German.
What is Greek?
500
Popular music, unlike folk music, has specific origins that can be traced to individual artists and locations. Hip Hop, for instance, has a specific origin point in this New York City suburb.
What is the Bronx.
500
This sport is the most widely diffused around the world.
What is soccer (non-American football)?
500
This type of folk housing has diffused from its hearth in southern Atlantic states (such as Maryland) to the rest of the southeastern US.
What is the Lower Chesapeake, or Tidewater?
500
These are multilingual states or people.
What are polyglots?
500
The standard spoken English in the United Kingdom is referred to a this.