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Repetitive Act
Habit
=turns into custom later on.
Contrast between folk and popular culture.
Folk Culture: Traditional in small groups.
Popular Culture: Large Commonalities
The use of horse and by the Amish in U.S. is an ex. of:
Relocation Diffusion of Folk Culture
Rapid Diffusion of Popular Culture
Hierarchal Diffusion
Folk Custom:
Traditions in small, isolated and rural areas.
Popular Customs:
Large Commonalities
Restriction on behavior imposed by society:
Taboo
Building Materials & Culture
Wood and Brick
Physical Environment
Denim Jeans
Popular Culture
Alcohol Consumption
??
Physical environment for wine
Soil & Climate
Televisions Sets:
Popular Culture
Diffusion of popular culture can impact the environment in two ways:
1. Increasing demand of Natural Resources
2. More Pollution
Women in LDCs with more contact of popular are more likely to:
Sex trafficking
Become objects.
Golf Course per Person:
More in north-central states
Michigan ranked
Language Spoken in a Local Area
Dialect
Languages share a common origin:
Language Group
Second Largest Language Family:
Sino-Tibetan
English In North America:
official language
English in Language Family:
Subgroup
Not a romance language...
Languages:
Spanish
Portugese
French
Italian
Widely Spoken Indo-European Language:
English
Two languages in South America:
Spanish & Portugese
Urdu most important language of:
Arabic, Muslim, Quran
Basque:
Isolated language in preIndo-European in N Spain and SW France
Two largest language families in the world:
1. Indo-European
2. Sino-Tibetan
Largest language with native speakers
Mandarin
Chinese written language:
ideograms
Lingua Franca
Universal Language/English
British vs. American English
Vocabulary
Spelling
Pronunciation
Franglais
French + English
T/F Icelandic Language
??
Large & fundamental division in religion:
Branch
Small group broken away from a church:
Sect
Largest universalized religion:
Christianity
Largest Ethnic Religion
Hinduism
Branch of Christianity:
Branches:
Roman Catholic
Protestant
Orthodox
Roman Catholics in S.W. U.S.
Sparse, mostly Baptists
Lutheranism
Division of Protestant
Dominate Branch of Islam
Muslim
One god
Monotheism
Nationalities right to govern themselves
Self-determinism
Apartheid
Physical separation of race into different areas
Most African slaves:
??
Most numerous ethnicity in U.S.
Hispanic
Asian Americans in U.S.
Cluster in Western U.S.
-Hawaii & California
Ethnic identity of European immigrants
Diminished with communism, rising again.
Separate but equal was legally established by:
Plessy v. Ferguson
Louisiana Law
Jim Crow Laws
White Flight
Moved out because of others(races) moving in.
Groups forcibly removed:
Ethnic Cleansing
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Cultural Geography Questions
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Cultural Geography Questions
Updated
2010-10-28T05:11:19Z
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