Vocabulary
spread of an idea or innovation from its source
Diffusion
Name a universalizing religion
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
The language family with the largest numbers of speakers in the world.
Indo-European
The spread of Cuban cuisine to the New England region with the influx of Cuban immigrants
relocation diffusion
A church, temple, or other holy building
material culture
For example, Native American boarding schools
Assimilation
The blend of the principles of two different religions that turn into a new religion
Syncretism
Name an ethnic religion
Hinduism
Judaism
Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce
Lingua franca
A professional athlete is seen wearing a pink t-shirt and soon people in both large and small cities and towns start wearing pink shirts. Name the two types of diffusion.
Hierarchical and contagious
It incorporates traits that diffuse quickly to a wide variety of places.
Popular culture
Muslims travel to Mecca
Hindus travel to the Ganges River
Christians travel to Bethlehem
(religious) pilgrimage
Cultural differences within a country’s population, such as different religions, languages, and ethnicities, have political impacts and can best be described as
centrifugal forces within a state
The region the world’s three major monotheistic religions originated.
Southwest Asia
Languages that arise out of necessity and are not native to any group as a means of communication between speakers of different native languages
Pidgin
Indian food is popular in the United Kingdom
Relocation diffusion
Values, beliefs, concepts and processes
non-material culture
Foods avoided because of religious or cultural reasons are
Taboo
The belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than other cultures
Ethnocentrism
In what region would you find Hinduism's hearth?
South Asia
A language that is a combination of other languages such as English and African dialects
Creolized language
Accounts for the wide diversity of Christian religious beliefs and practices spread through the Americas
Relocation
Is preserved by older generations and usually found in rural areas
folk culture
Sutter's Fort is an example
Subsequent Occupancy
the diversity of distinctive cultures within a particular geographic area
Cultural landscape
The principle religion of Central and South America
Christianity
The language other than English that is most likely spoken in homes in the Southwestern part of the United States
Spanish
The spread of specialty coffee shops such as Starbucks & Peets across the United States in the 1990s
hierarchical diffusion
artifacts
material culture
The food preferences, architecture, and land-use practices found in a particular region
cultural traits
A voluntary urban community where people of similar origin reside
An ethnic neighborhood
Universalizing religion whose hearth is the Punjab region of India
Sikhism
The reason why so many international companies place their call centers in India and not China
The English language legacy of British colonization
Hip hop and rap started in New York and spread westward, leading to two different flavors: East Coast and West Coast rap.
Stimulus diffusion
mentifacts and sociofacts
non-material culture
An example is an American referring to China as the Far East
Ethnocentrism