What is culture & how it's divided
What is an artifact?
Artifacts are material items and technologies created by a culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
Your culture is the center, your opinion on a different culture based on the opinion of yours.
What two languages makeup Spanglish?
English and Spanish.
What is the difference between centripetal and centrifugal forces?
Centripetal pulls people together, while a centrifugal force forces people away.
What is the difference between an official language and a working language?
Official language is used by the government to enact laws, publish documents, and conduct business. Working language is designated by an international organization or corporation as its primary means of communication for daily correspondence and conversation.
What is material culture?
A street sign in Canada shows a road name in English, French, and Spanish. This is an example of...
Multiculturalism
What is a language branch?
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
How are languages organized?
They are organized by families, branches, and groups.
What 6 working languages have the United Nations officiated?
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese(Mandarin).
Name an artifact, sociofact, and mentifact for a wedding.
Example: Artifact- dress, Sociofact- relationship between guests and the bride and groom, Mentifact- the age the bride gets married.
What is evidence of sequent occupancy?
Describe an example of relocation diffusion.
Answers vary, Example: I was born and lived in Greece, I move to France and decide to open up a Greek restaurant.
Name 3 different language branches.
Example: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and Indo-Aryan.
What is a pidgin language?
A language created by learning a few grammar rules and words of a lingua franca and mixing in other elements of different languages.
What is a Mentifact?
Shared ideas, values + beliefs of a culture, like religion language, viewpoints, etc. They are also the slowest to change.
New Orleans shows multiple cultures that have modified its landscape. This is an example of...
Sequent Occupance
A person moves from India and begins to wear shorts and shirts instead of traditional clothing. This is an example of...
Acculturation
What are the 5 main romance languages?
In the South we say y'all, but in the North, they say, you guys. This is an example of an ______ .
Isogloss; word use boundary
What is the difference between Pop culture and Folk culture?
Folk culture is local and homogeneous, meaning it is uniform. Pop culture spreads across regions and is heterogeneous.
What is a pro and con to cultural convergence?
Cultural convergence can democratize types of cultures and the sharing of knowledge, but it also can create a loss of indigenous languages as English dominates.
What is one aspect of cultural convergence and give an example of it?
Glocalization, a McDonald's in China has boba tea and taro pie, unlike the McDonald's in America.
Why are there 2 different kinds of English?
A man named Noah Webster had a strong disliking for England, so he changed the spelling in some words which is why today England and America spell words differently.
What is an example of a creolized language and how is it creolized?
French creole in Haiti, colonizers mixed their language with the indigenous people's language.