Unit 3, acculturation/assimilation, landscapes, globalization

Multiple Choice

The presence of media hubs, coalitions focusing on specific environmental challenges, and headquarters for multinational corporations in major cities help explain how such cities...

• avoid participation in global processes and decision making

• are linked globally in ways that transcend national political boundaries

• are isolated and dependent on national political boundaries for security

• preserve cultural heritage and contribute to increasing isolation

• generate individual wealth and drive economic development within cities boundaries

Adapting to a new culture while keeping some or most of your original culture.

​​Acculturation

​Adapting to a new culture while losing nearly all of one's original culture

​​Assimilation

The blending of two or more cultures.

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​Syncretism

Multiple Choice

Comparing both photographs, each image shows the significance of temples, religious statuary, and iconography on the...

• cultural hearth

• ethnic culture

• traditional toponyms

• cultural landscape

• colonial architecture

​Reflection of culture on the landscape. How humans interact with the landscape AND how we can read the landscape to understand the culture.​

Cultural Landscape

The better technology is, the less distance matters. The world is "shrinking" because of this.

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Time-space convergence

​GLOBALIZATION

Reorder

Reorder the following types of transportation from slowest to fastest.

• Sailing ship

• train

• early airplanes

• jets

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Open Ended

Explain time-space convergence:

​The increasing connection of economic, cultural, and political characteristics across the world

Globalization

• Interconnected trade

• Multinational brands

• Homogenization of culture

  • Language, food, clothing, architecture

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​Effects of globalization

Open Ended

Give and example of how innovation in transportation & communication are driving globalization.