Ethnic Regions Lecture Notes

Question 1

Rural Ethnic Culture Groups are:

Answer 1

Ethnic homelands, islands, and substrates

Question 2

Urban Ethnic Culture Groups are:

Answer 2

Ethnic neighborhood and ghettos

Question 3

Ethnic Homelands are characterized by:

Answer 3

Large area, overlap, strong identity of place, indigenous, and venerated places

Question 4

Ethnic Islands are characterized by:

Answer 4

Small, but numerous, small towns, specialized towns, small size leaves the susceptible to acculturation and assimilation

Question 5

Substrates are characterized by:

Answer 5

People are very american (except food and shops), faint evidence of cultural identities, some distinction

Question 6

Ethnic Neighborhoods are characterized by:

Answer 6

Group cohesiveness, reside there by choice (Think of A Stranger Among Us)