Chapter 4: Culture
Overtourism is a clear issue in this U.S. state
What is Hawai'i?
AAVE is an acronym for this English dialect
African American Vernacular English
A section of a city in which a marginalized group live
What is a ghetto?
Fear of people from another country
Xenophobia
A boundary that no longer functions but can still be detected on the cultural landscape
What is a relic boundary?
A restriction on behavior imposed by social customs
Taboo
A language that is threatened or dying because of loss of users
What is an endangered language?
Disagreements over who should succeed the Prophet Mohammed led to the creation of these two groups
What are Sunni and Shi'a Muslims?
The genocide of Bosnia Muslims occured during this late 20th century war
A state that completely surrounds another one
What is a Perforated State?
The process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture
What is cultural homogenization?
A force that tends to unify people
What is a centripetal force?
The oldest of the top 5 most practiced religions, which is practiced by about 15% of the world
What is Hinduism?
This U.S. state has the highest population of Native Americans
The ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of other states
Sovereignty
Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, and sustains the well being of local people
What is eco-tourism?
Half of the world's population speak languages from this language family
What is Indo-European?
He said "Religion is the opium of the masses"
Who is Karl Marx?
When real estate agents convince White homeowners living near mostly Black people to sell their homes at a low price, to resell to Black buyers at a higher price
What is blockbusting?
This region birthed the Bablyonian, Assyrian, and Sumerian empires, and is also known as the Fertile Crescent
What is Mesopotamia?
artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, videos, or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts
What is generative AI?
A pictorial symbol that represents an entire word
What is a logogram?
The West Bank, Golan Heights, and Gaza
What territories did Israel capture in the Six-Day War?
This country is a fundamentalist Shi’a theocracy led by religious leaders called the ulema
What is Iran?
The genocide of Bosnia Muslims occured during this late 20th century war
What were the Yugoslav Wars?