Multicultural Identity and Ecumenical

Question 1

Homogenization

Answer 1

Propagandistic reaction when feel culture is threatened

non-Western consumers passively accept Western culture and more about giving consumers choice

Question 2

Cultural diffusion

Answer 2

Formerly results of migration and literacy only for the elites
Increased due to mass literacy/communication, growth of global orgs/long distance transportation, internet

Question 3

Regional Cosmoses

Answer 3

Late 20s-cheap transportation
US parts integrated w. other nations that produce hybrid language, music, cuisine
Distinctive transnational societies and increasingly post-national world

Question 4

Traditional America

Answer 4

Euro-African world from Puritan North
Social mobility and Christianity
Racist and profoundly separatist

Question 5

Multicultural America

Answer 5

Cultures from center’s several regional cosmoses meet

Question 6

Ecumenical America

Answer 6

Universal culture that continues to develop in great cities and university towns.
Select and universalize particular cultural forms and styles

Question 7

Multicultural Person

Answer 7

Cultures to shape self. Preserve valid, significant, and valuable aspect in each culture to form a whole. More susceptible to change and variation

Question 8

Cultural Identity

Answer 8

Collectively describe values, etc. of a group
Individual’s identity in relation to his/her culture (stability of values, behavioral norms, and sense of wholeness and integration)

Question 9

Globalization (Patterson’s project)

Answer 9

Enormous cultural production, near hypercreativity

Blurred national boundaries, produce regional cosmoses and cultural divisions