Culture 101
This is where cultures originates.
What are Cultural hearths?
An example of this type of diffusion is:
News of the winner of the World Cup spread around the world very quickly via the Internet and other media.
What is contagious?
This is the difference between acculturation and assimilation.
Assimilation is the complete absorption of one culture group into another; with acculturation, the two groups can still be distinguished.
This religion’s hearth can be found in present-day Saudi Arabia.
What is Islam?
This is the largest language family in the world.
What is Indo-European?
This term describes the ways in which a culture behaves and organizes their institutions.
What is Sociofacts?
An example of this is the discouraged eating pork in Islam and Judadism.
What is a cultural taboo?
An example of this type of diffusion is:
Indian immigrants popularized Indian cuisine in London and curries are now available in many pubs.
What is relocation?
These culture groups live in communities with others who share their same background in order to preserve their culture.
What are Ethnic enclaves?
This religion is associated with the caste system in India
What is Hinduism?
This is the term for languages that are related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
What is a Language branch?
This term describes the separation of religion and the state.
What is Secularism?
This term describes when one judges a culture through its own lens rather than their own.
What is cultural relativism?
An example of this type of diffusion is:
In the event of a cancellation, schools use phone trees to spread the word. The principal calls the teachers and the teachers call their homeroom students.
What is hierarchical?
A society that does not embrace multiculturalism has this attitude.
What is Nativism/Nativist?
This religion worships in buildings called Gurdwaras.
What is Sikhism?
This is the name of the language that linguists believe all languages are descended from.
What is Proto-Indo-European?
This term describes the phenomenon when one can see the influence of successive societies on a landscape.
What is Sequent occupancy?
These are the three kinds of cultural traits.
What are artifacts, sociofacts, and mentifacts?
An example of this type of diffusion is:
Burger King locations in Canada serve their version of poutine, a traditional Quebecois dish.
What is Stimulus?
The creation of Tex-mex food as syncretism.
What is the fusion of two traits to form a new one?
One third of the followers of this religion live in the United States.
What is Judaism?
Dutch and Afrikaans have many similarities in grammar and vocabulary because they are part of this.
What is a Language Group?
This term describes a new culture trait formed from the fusion of two traits from distinct cultures.
What is Syncretism?
This term describes the belief that although the environment impacts culture in some ways, people are the primary architects of it.
What is possibilism?
An example of this type of diffusion is:
Walmart began in Rogers, Arkansas but can now be found in major cities all over the world.
What is Reverse Hierarchical?
The name of the type of boarding schools in Canada and the US where Indigenous children were sent in order to assimilate them.
What are Residential Schools?
This religion is neither monotheistic or polytheistic.
What is Buddhism?
This language is not part of the Germanic language branch.
Possibles: English, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish
What is Portuguese?
This theory about the spread of Proto-Indo-European language is based on the idea of an agricultural surplus.
What is Sedentary Farmer Theory?