Definitons
Define Ethnicity and Race.
Ethnicity is an individual's cultural identity (Hispanic, German, Italian), and race is a historical classification based on common physical traits. (Asian, Alaskan Native, and African American)
The concept of cultures becoming more alike as their interactions increase?
What is Cultural Convergence (Increase use of english)
The 3 types of expansion diffusion
What is Contagious diffusion, hierarchical diffusion, and stimulus diffusion.
The differences between vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation, cadence, and pace
What is Dialect
Define Ethnic Religion
Religions that don't constantly seek converts and exclusively live in their hearths and/or spread through relocation diffusion.
s the judgment of one's culture based on one's own.
What is Ethnocentrism
The tendency of cultural groups to dissociate from others to preserve their own culture
What is Cultural Divergence (The Amish)
The forces that unite or divide a country?
What is Centripetal/Centrifugal
A mutually understood language for bilinguals and trilinguals?
Lingua Franca (Ex: English)
The oldest religion
What is Animism
Buildings have succeeded in other cultures?
Sequent Occupance
An urban area that is occupied by a minority culture?
What is Ethnic Neighborhood (Chinatown in NYC)
Explain what colonialism is. Give an example.
Colonialism is when one country gains control over another country to exploit the people living there economically. Ex: English pilgrims travelling to America, exploiting the native Americans.
The blending of European, Amerindian, and African cultures in the New World to create a whole new culture
What is Creolization
The Agricultural Theory
9000 years ago, the Indo-European language originated in Anatolia in modern Turkey and spread along with the diffusion of agricultural
Religion that always wants converts?
what is Universalizing religion (Christianity, Jehovah's Witnesses)
The attachment between a place and its inhabitants
what is Sense of Place (Native Americans and North America)
Identify and Define the two types of diffusion.
Relocation (Culture that moves along with its individuals) exp: Christianity
Expansion (innovation and ideas that spread while staying strong at its source area)
The cause of the loss of indigenous languages
What is Colonalism and policies of assimilation
What is the Conquest Theory
5000 years ago, the Indo-European language was in present-day Ukraine and Russia and moved westward by conquerors on horseback
A cultural trait of a small tradition rural community
What is Local/Folk Culture (The Amish)
The combination/interaction of physical features, agriculture, religious, and linguistic characteristics?
What is Cultural Landscape (The statue of Liberty)
Define what cultural imperialism is. Give an example.
Cultural imperialism is when one culture dominates over another, usually as a result of colonialism. Ex: English and Spanish culutre imposed on the Natives in the Americas.
The known family of languages that spreaded outwards (Hint: in Europe)
What is Indo-European Language Family
What are the cultural hearths of the following religions: Hindusim, Buddhism, Sikihism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism
South Asia
South Asia
South Asia
Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia