It's all about that Culture
a characteristic of a group of people
What is custom?
Most spoken native (1st) language in the world
What is Mandarin Chinese
Belief that trees and animals have souls
What is animism?
Most minorities live where in the US--rural, urban, suburban or exurban regions?
What are cities?
Amish are found mostly in what US states?
What is Pennsylvania & Ohio?
One difference between folk and popular culture:
What is folk culture is different from the majority (popular culture).
a language that is used among people conducting business that have different native languages.
What is lingua franca?
A city in modern day Saudi Arabia that is also the hearth of Islam.
What is Mecca?
process that led to the creation of ethnic neighborhoods, such as Chinatown and Little Italy.
What is chain migration?
These are the social differences in men and women, not the biological ones?
What is gender?
When someone adopts only certain characteristics of their host culture
What is acculturation?
The Human Geography word to describe a place name
What is toponymy?
List an example of an intrafaith (same religion) boundary?
What is Northern Ireland and Ireland?
Ethnic conflicts are mostly fought over what?
What is land?
The idea that the world is "shrinking" due to transportation and communication technology.
What is space-time compression?
A collection of people with similar religion, language or another cultural trait is called this:
What is a cultural region?
mix of indigenous and colonial languages
What is creole?
3 branches of Christianity?
Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox
When someone abandons their original culture in order to fully adopt the culture of their host country.
What is assimilating?
The further you are from something, the less likely you are to interact with it. The closer you are, the more likely you are to interact with it.
What is distance-decay or friction of distance?
When people all around the world started wearing blue jeans this is an example of the globalization of what type of culture?
What is popular culture?
the hearth of Indo-European languages
What is Anatolia (modern day Turkey) and the Fertile Crescent?
What city in the middle east is a sacred place for Jews, Christians, and Muslims?
What is Jerusalem?
Difference between Race and Ethnicity:
What is race is biological, ethnicity is cultural?
A journey that people take to important places within their religion.
What is a pilgrimage