Human Geo Mr Flo 4

The Duchess of Cambridge's lace wedding gown is an example of __________ .

• material culture
• folk culture.
• colonialism.
• contagious diffusion

A __________ is a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits to distinguish themselves from others.

• race
• material culture
• culture
• local culture

Customs:

• discourage cultural appropriation.
  
• are always protected by governments.
• help sustain local cultures.
• destroy ethnic neighborhoods.

The South African theme park “The Lost City,” the city of Branson in Missouri, and an Irish Pub in Dubai __________ .

• capitalize on the power of hierarchical diffusion.
  
• create new local cultures.
• dispel myths about local cultures
• are examples of the commodification of local culture.
  

__________ is to placelessness as __________ is to cultural diffusion.

• The cultural landscape, Paris
• The United States, Europe
  
• McDonald's, Japan
• Starbuck's, Facebook

Distance decay __________

• has not been altered by technology.
• has been altered by transportation and communication technologies.
  
• and time-space compression explain how places become disconnected.
  
• explains the success of RenRen in China.

The fact that if you can go to a cinema in Seoul, South Korea you can choose among just released American films shown in English with Korean subtitles __________ .

• reflects the hierarchical diffusion of popular culture.
  
  
• reflects the global-local continuum concept.
  
• might trigger a concern over the loss of local culture.
  
• all of these

The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape is referred to as __________ .

• placelessness
• sprawl
• the cultural landscape
• clustering

People in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes, in a process called __________ .

• cultural diffusion
• glocalization.
• world heritage development
• authenticity

The study of vulnerability requires thinking geographically because __________ .

• natural hazards can happen anytime.
  
• fieldwork is the only way to study hazards
• most people have no sense of place.
  
  
• not all people and places are affected in the same way by social, political, economic, or environmental change.