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Ethnicity
Folk Popular culture
Folk Popular culture pt. 2
Language
Religion
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May be clustered in specific areas within a country,or the area it inhabits may match closely to the boundries of a country.
Where are ethnicities distributed?
100
Culture,a group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a group of people; Folk/Local Culture homogenous people, typically rural, and cohesive in cultural traits; see themselves as a community, share experiences, customs, and traits, and work to preserve those traits and customs to show their uniqueness and separate themselves from others.(Amish) Popular Culture: large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically urban, and experiences quick changes in cultural traits. Spreads through hierarchical diffusion.(music)
Culture and the two different types of culture (Explanation)
100
Football, baseball, and basketball.
What are the big 3 sports in the US?
100
Dialect
What is the regional variation distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunviation ?
100
Religion is an organized collection of belief systems, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
What is religion?
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Nationality and ethnicity are similar concepts in which both are defined though shared cultural values,the culture values share with other of the same ethnicity derive from religion,lanuage and culure that have same nationality.
Why have ethnicites been transformed into nationalities? Nationality and ethnicity are similar concepts in which both are defined though shared cultural values,the culture values share with other of the same ethnicity derive from religion,lanuage and culure that have same nationality.
200
Rural local cultures often have an easier time with maintaining their culture because migration into rural times isn’t as frequent, and members of a local rural culture can keep external influences outside of their group Ex:The Makah American Indians: they want to preserve their customs of whale hunting, despite the government’s opinion on the subject,Little Sweden, USA ,The Hutterites ,The Amish.
What is an example of a rural local culture and differentiate it from an urban local culture?
200
New York and Los Angeles
Hip hop and rap grew out of what 2 inner cities?
200
Indo-european
Indo-iranian, romance, Germanic, and balto-slavic languages make up what language branch?
200
Atheism, No god Polytheism, Worship of many gods Monotheism Worship of one god who is usually the creator of the creation
Define Athesim, Polytheism, Monotheism.
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Ethnicities do not always find ways to live together peacefully,in some cases,ethnicities compete in civil wars to dominate the national identity.Competition to dominate nationality,dividing ethnicities among more than one state.
Why do ethnicities clash
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A concept developed by geographer David Harvey which explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies. Likelihood of diffusion depends on communications.
What is time-space compression?
300
People in a local place mediate and alter regional, national and global processes.
What is the definition of Glocalization?
300
Isolated language
What is the term that describes a language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any family?
300
A sign involves the denotative meaning and has no deeper meaning; it is literal.
what is a Symbol?
400
Ethnic groups are flee from other ethnic groups with more powerful groups to create an ethnically homogeneos region.Basically removal of every member of less powerful ethnicity.
What is ethnic cleansing?
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The process which something that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought or sold becomes an object that can be bought, sold, and traded in the world market.(HINT:definition),A commodified business can usually lead to a commodified area within a local culture, which adds an “authentic” experience to the area
How does commodification associate with authenticity?
400
New England, Mid- Atlantic, Southern Tidewater
What are the 3 traditional American houses?
400
Lingua franca
What is the language of international communication?
400
Men or women who are recognized as the bringers or new insight (Confucious, Jesus, Abraham etc..)
Who are founders?
500
When constructiong isentities part of what is done is inffusing meanings by attaching memories and experinces
How can we see indentities in places ?
500
The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater distance, the less interaction
What is distance decay?
500
When people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own.
What is the definition of Reterritorialization?
500
Ideogram
What is the system of writing used in china and other east asain countries in which each symbol represents an idea rather than a specific sound, as in the case with letters in language?
500
One who brings the message of god: Moses was the first biblical of prophets. Muhammad is another example in the islamic religon.
Who are prophets? Name 2 That were an example