Elements of Folk Culture
Religion Roundup
Language
Pot Pourri
Starts with “E”
Language Loss
Culture Clash
400

This sport started as a folk culture sport but is now a major part of global popular culture.

What is soccer?

400

This religion is polytheistic.

Options: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism

What is Hinduism.

400

This country has the most official languages.

What is Bolivia?

400

This is different from race because it is based on a shared heritage rather than physical characteristics.

What is Ethnicity?

400

This is the term for a language that is vulnerable to extinction.

What is an Endangered language?

400

Of these options, this is an example of centripetal force.

Options: heterogeneous society, nativism, nationalism

What is nationalism? 

800

This folk culture refuses to use electricity and modern technology.

What is the Amish?

800

The order of these religions in order from most to least followers: Islam, Judaism, Buddhism

What is Islam, Buddhism, Judaism?

800

Name three of the five Romance languages.

What is Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian?

800

Contagious, hierarchical, and stimulus are all types of this kind of diffusion.

What is Expansion?

800

This extinct language is still studied in many schools and used in legal matters around the world.

What is Latin? 

800

In this country there was a linguistic clash between French and English groups. The clash reached its height in the 1970s.

What is Canada? 

1200

This is where can you find Cajun folk culture.

What is Louisiana?

1200

 Of these religions, this one is universalizing.


Options: Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism

What is Sikhism?

1200

This term describes word usage boundaries that allow linguists to see the geographic divisions between dialects.

What is isogloss? 

1200

Little Italy and Chinatown in New York City are examples of this.

What are Ethnic enclaves?

1200

Hebrew become a revived language in the mid-20th century because this country made it the official language. 

What is Isreal? 

1200

These two religious groups engaged in deadly clashes in Northern Ireland in the 1960s.

What are Catholics & Protestants? 

1600

People belonging to this folk culture were among those persecuted by the Nazis during WWII.

What is the Romani?

1600

Of these religions, which two share a hearth?

Options: Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism

What is Buddhism and Hinduism?

1600

The number of languages spoken by more than 100 million people.

What is 13?

1600

This theory specifies that natural surroundings are a major factor in shaping culture.

What is Environmental Determinism?

1600

This isolated Asian language is spoken by more than 75 million people.

What is Korean?

1600

These two ethnic groups were at odds in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide.

What are the Hutus and Tutsis?

2000

This photo shows a person of this folk culture.

What is the Maori?

2000

Put these religions in alphabetical order based on the name of their religious texts:

Judaism, Christianity, Islam

What is Christianity (Bible), Islam (Koran), Judaism (Torah)?

2000

This kind of language has no native speakers.

What is Pidgin language?

2000

 This term describes judging another culture through one’s own cultural lens.

What is Ethnocentrism?

2000

Name four of the six lingua francas.

What are: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Swahili, Russian?

2000

This is the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide.

What is Genocide is the destruction of an ethnic group by murder and ethnic cleansing is the removal of an ethnic group from an area and can occur by other means?