Cultural Geography: A Sampling of Terms & Concepts

The neck rings of the Kayan Lahwi women of Myanmar can be considered a trait of:

• rural local culture

• rural popular culture

• urban local culture

• urban popular culture

How do local cultures sustain themselves, or avoid "dying out"?

• they celebrate customs and traditions

• they abandon customs and traditions

• they may isolate themselves

• they blend in to the mainstream culture

This sign marks the entrance to an ethnic neighborhood, an example of:

• rural local culture

• rural popular culture

• urban local culture

• urban popular culture

The movement of American Indian children to boarding schools run by religious groups and the U.S. government was an effort to:

• force assimilation

• force acculturation

An actor with a new movie or a musician with a new album will often hit the late-night talk show circuit in order to take advantage of:

• relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

In 1966 a Japanese immigrant and his business partner opened the first sushi restaurant in Los Angeles. The diffusion of a food style through migration exemplifies:

• relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

In 1970 the first sushi bar opened in Hollywood and catered to celebrities. The celebrity endorsement helped sushi diffuse to New York and Chicago and beyond. Diffusion from the more influential to the less influential is termed:

• relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

The Kit Kat candy bar diffused to Japan. Japan has developed its own unique flavors of Kit Kat, such as green tea. This type of diffusion, in which a product is glocalized to fit the local culture, is termed:

• relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

The Diffusion of Innovation Model illustrates that when it comes to embracing new ideas, the smallest percentage of people are:

• innovators

• early adopters

• early or late majority

• laggards

Anglophone, Hispanophone and Francophone countries are examples of:

• culture regions

• local cultures

• ethnic neighborhoods

• barriers to cultural diffusion