Crash course- Cultural Patterns and Proccesses

Question 1

Who is Carl Sauer?

Answer 1

A famous 20th century geographer who asserted that wherever a human culture exists, a cultural landscape exists as that culture’s unique “fingerprint” on their space on the Earth

Question 2

What is a culture trait?

Answer 2

A single attribute of a culture (ex: bowing to show respect)

Question 3

What is a culture complex?

Answer 3

The combination of all culture traits creates a unique set of traits called a culture complex

Question 4

What is a culture system?

Answer 4

When many culture complexes share particular traits, those complexes can merge to form a culture system

Question 5

What is a culture region?

Answer 5

A region that’s drawn around places and people with similarities in their culture systems

Question 6

How is a culture/ geographic realm formed?

Answer 6

It’s formed through the fusing together of culture regions that share enough in common to be merged together

Question 7

What is stimulus expansion diffusion?

Answer 7

When the innovative idea diffuses from its hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters (ex: iced tea diffused to the south, southerners added sugar)

Question 8

What is migrant diffusion?

Answer 8

When the innovation spreads and lasts only a brief time in the newly adopting place

Question 9

What is an independent innovation?

Answer 9

When similar or the same innovation is made in 2 or more different hearths without any interaction

Question 10

What transculturation?

Answer 10

When 2 cultures of equal power/ influence meet and exchange ideas/ traits without the domination seen in acculturation and assimilation

Question 11

What is a barrio?

Answer 11

A spanish-speaking ethnic enclave

Question 12

What is social distance?

Answer 12

The measurement of how distant two ethnicities are from each other (not spatially)

Question 13

What is the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide?

Answer 13

Ethnic cleansing is a process in which a racial/ ethnic group tries to make another racial/ ethnic group leave a land area, genocide is the killing of a racial/ethnic group by another racial/ethnic group

Question 14

What’s an example of genocide?

Answer 14

Yugoslavia’s leader led a genocide campaign against Albanians in Kosovo, Serbia

Question 15

What is cultural imperialism?

Answer 15

The invasion of the culture into another with the intent of dominating the invaded culture politically, economically, and/ or socially

Question 16

What is cultural nationalism?

Answer 16

The resistance by a group of people against cultural imperialism and cultural convergence. For example, nationalists who believe McDonald’s is a symbol of American cultural imperialism have attacked McDonald’s restaurants in regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa

Question 17

What is maldaptive diffusion?

Answer 17

The adoption of a diffusing trait that is impractical for a region or culture. For example wearing blue jeans is a popular culture trait that has diffused across the world, but it isn’t practical for warmer regions