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

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Native America children in the 1800s being forced into American schools and taught to reject their culture. They speak English, are Christian, and follow American customs.

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Catholicism coming to modern-day Mexico in the 1500s. It spreads to the indigenous population, and adopts many aspects of their old religion and its practices to create a new religion.

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An Indian immigrant family moving to the USA for better jobs. They remain Hindus and still practice their religion, and learn English and American customs.

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

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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.