AP Human Geography - Unit III

Folk culture is

• Homogenous

• Rural

• Slowly changing / stagnant

• All of the above

Folk music usually

• Is created by well-known artists

• Has anonymous authors over generations

• Made to generate profit

• Has urban hearths

Popular culture steals and/or misrepresents an aspect of folk culture for profit

• Cultural assimilation

• Cultural imperialism

• Cultural syncretism

• Cultural appropriation

An example of hierarchical diffusion

• Migrant bringing their food culture to the US

• McDonald's building restaurants in India but not serving beef

• A celebrity adopting a new hairstyle and starting a trend

• Finding out about a new song from your cousin

Dominant language family in the regions above

• Niger - Congo

• Indo - European

• Latin Americano

• Sino - Tibetan

Dominant language family in the regions above

• Sino -Tibetan

• Afro - Asiatic

• Niger - Congo

• Afrikaans

When two people who speak different languages use English to conduct business, we can consider English a(n)

• Assimilated language

• Lingua Franca

• Pidgin Language

• Creole Language

This region of the world is most likely the hearth of what language family?

• Austro - Asiatic

• Indo - European

• Altaic

• Sino - Tibetan

Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese are all

• Sino - Tibetan languages

• Germanic languages

• Altaic languages

• Romance languages

Found on the border of France and Spain, this language is not related to any other languages in Europe

• Macedonian

• Catalán

• Basque

• Latin