Unit
What is a shared written/verbal communication system?
Language
Sino-Tibetan, Indo European are examples of...
Language Families
Adoption of new cultural traits
Acculturation
Ethnicity is a...
Cultural group
Define Culture
Shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors in a society.
Definition of Dialect?
Particular form of a language unique to a geographic region.
Dominant language used in global trade, media, politics
Lingua Franca
Assimilation
Shredding of original cultural traits.
Pop Culture
Results in more uniform landscapes and pollution and a shared global culture
Language native to a region
Indigenous Language
Impact of a culture's values on the land/land use patterns
Cultural Landscape
Imperialism
A government's policy of expanding its territory
Sense of place
Cultural or personal meaning/attachment to an area
Cultural Hearth is...
A cultures place of origin/place from which a culture diffused over time.
Explain Colonialism?
Taking over lands inhabited by other cultural groups and establishing permanent settlements.
Cultural practices that do not diffuse far from the hearth is...
Folk Culture
Cultural Traits are..
Individual elements of a culture; e.g. food, architecture, land use, housing, clothing, greeting, music, holidays
Explain Globalization
Increasing interconnectivity of people and places around the world.
Multiculturalism
More than one culture group existing in one area together
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