3.1
Cultural practiced by a small, homogenous group living is islolation from other groups.
Traditional Culture
Land use patterns, agricultural practices, religious and language charcteristics show reveal the cultural ___________
Landscape
The process by which people, businesses, and cultures around the world become more interconnected and interdependent.
Globalization
Polytheistic Ethnic Religion whose heart is in India
Hinduism
A minority or immigrant group gradually adopts the customs, attitudes, and language of the dominant culture, often losing aspects of their original culture in the process.
Assimilation
Architecure reflects local culture and is built using avaible materials in the enviroment.
Traditional Architecture
The visible objects and physical items created by a culture
Artifacts
The place where a culture or culture trait begins
Cultural Hearth
The feelings, emotions, and meanings that people associate with a location this is apart of the cultural landscape
Sense of place
Largest group of related languages which are connected through a common, ancient ancestry.
Language Family
Universalizing religion, Hearth in in South Asia (India) but is now mainly located in East Asia
Buddhism
immigrants learning a new language, adopting local fashion, celebrating new holidays alongside old ones.
Acculturation
Muslims are forbidden from eating pork because it is considered forbidden in Islamic dietary laws found in the Qur’an. This is an example of a ...
Taboo
A shared language that improves communication and unification within a country is an example of
Centripetal Force
European settlers moved to the Americas and brought Christianity with them, spreading it to Native American tribes. This is an example of what type of diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
The common langauge mutually understood by a society.
Lingua Franca
Guess the religion: Contagious & relocation
(apostles/missionaries), hierarchical
(Roman Empire, colonization)
Christianity
Monotheistic, ethnic religion. Hearth is Canaan/Israel.
Judaism
Voodoo merging West African faiths with Catholicism in the Americas
Syncretism
Seeking to understand other cultures
Cultural Relativism
Religious conflict that creates division within a country is an example of
Centrifugal forces
What type of diffusion: A new fashion trend starts with celebrities and influencers and then spreads to major cities before reaching smaller towns and rural areas.
Hierarchieal Diffusion
When a powerful country establsihes dominace over a weaker nation and their culture spreads to the dominted culture
Imperialism
shrinking the effective distance and time between places through faster transport (trains, planes) and instant communication
time-space convergence
Universalizing religion that spread through trade and conquest. Heart is Mecca and Medina
Islam
Countries like Singapore and South Africa recognize and support multiple languages
multiculturalism
the belief that your own culture is better or more normal than other cultures, and judging other cultures based on your own cultural standards.
Ethnocentritism
Originally the Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlán. The Spanish conquered the area and built a colonial city on top of it. Modern Mexico City now shows a mix of Indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern global influences in its architecture, language, and culture. This is an example of what?
Sequant Occupance- The idea that successive societies or cultural groups leave their mark on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape over time.
rapid spread of viral internet challenges, like the Ice Bucket Challenge, or the quick adoption of slang terms
Contagious Diffusion
Islam spread along the silk road, the silk road was an anciet _______ ___________
Trade Route
A regional variation of a language distinguished by differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. (y'all, pop vs soda)
Dialect
A religion that seeks converts
Universalizing Religion
Belief in One God
monotheistic
This Amish are an example of what type of culture
Folk
small area or neighborhood where a particular ethnic group is concentrated, surrounded by people of a different dominant culture or ethnicity.
Ethnic Enclave
What type of diffusion- Mcdonalds spreading to India but not serving beef.
Stimulus Diffusion
The process of mixing of cultural traits, mainly languages
Crealization
Place names
Toponyms- these can reflect culture
religion that has a strong link to a particular people, culture, and sometimes language or geographic region. Does not seek to spread.
Ethnic Religion
Belief in many gods. Ex: Hinduism
Polytheistic
The original settlers of an area (pre-invasion/colonialism) who have retained their culture
Indigenous communities
The worlds primary lingua franca is...
English
A boundary that separated language regions
Isogloss
What stage on the DTM Would a LDC Be in?
Stage 2