Vocab
Define local culture.
Local cultures are rural, ethnically homogenous, and deeply connected to the local land.
This type of diffusion occurs when cultural traits spread from one person to another through direct contact
What is contagious diffusion
What is the term for the blending of two or more languages to create a new one?
What is Creolization
The world's three major monotheistic religions originated in which of the following regions?
What is Southwest Asia
Whatr do we call the geographic region where a particular cultural trait originates?
What is a cultural hearth
What is a scared space?
What are natural or human-made sites that possess religious meaning for some religious groups.
The diffusion process involves the spread of an idea or innovation from a higer authority to lower levels in a hiearchy
What is hierarchical diffusion
What major factor contributes to the diffusion of languages in the modern world?
The rise of social media and the internet
Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of
Lingua Franca
Thus type of religion is characterizated by the belief in one God and is widely practiced in cultures around the world
What is monotheism
Define centripetal force.
What is a force brings people together and unifies a neighborhood, society, or country, usually because of similarities.
When a cultural trait spreads outward from its point or origin, often resulting in a wave-like pattern, it is called this
What is expansion diffusion
What is the major factor in the decline of indigenous languages?
What is Globalization and Urbanization
The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in the 1990s is an example of
What is Hierarchical Diffusion
Which term is used to describe the physical manifestation of culture, including architecture, art, and urban planning?
What is material culture
Define centrifugal force.
What is a force is one that threatens the cohesion of a neighborhood, society, or country, usually because of dissimilarities or disagreements.
This type of diffusion occurs when people migrate and bring their cultural practices with them to a new location
What is relocation diffusion
What is the primary reason for the spread of the English language worldwide?
It is the language of international business and diplomacy
If four languages have similar words for numbers and the names of fish, but different names for certain disease, what might be concluded about the time at which the disease first diffused?
The population decided and evolved into the four different languages, and then the disease spread
What is the term for the process by which a minority culture adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture
What is assculturation
Define assimilation.
Assimilation is when an ethnic or immigrant group blends in with the host culture and loses many culturally distinctive traits.
\The type of diffusion occurs when a cultural trait spreads, but it is adapted or altered by the receiving culture rather than being adopted in its orginal form
What is stimulus diffusion
What role did missionaries play in the spread of languages and religions?
They facilitated the spread of their own languages and beliefs
The Berlin Conference established the borders of North African countries including Egypt, Libya, and Sudan. The landscape of these countries influenced the types of boundaries imposed by the European colonial powers. Which of the boundary types explains the influence of landscape on the political borders of the North African region?
Geometric, with straight lines, disregarding physical features or tribal cultural differences of the areas
What is the name of the theory that explains how languages evolve and diverge over time
What is linguistic divergence