MP2 Folk and Pop culture test

Which of the following is most accurate with regard to food preferences and taboos?

• Food preferences are stronger than taboos as seen by the high consumption of beef on the Deccan Plateau.

• Food preferences and taboos have little influence on the diet in Arabia and Southeast Asia.

• Some foods are avoided for religious or cultural reasons even at the expense of a balanced diet.

• Food preferences and taboos show little variability between cultures.

• Low hog production in China demonstrates an avoidance of pork by the Chinese.

Which of the following terms best describes the food preferences, architecture, and land-use practices found in a particular region?

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Culture traits

• Unitary state

• Culture hearth

Which of the following best exemplifies the diffusion of popular culture throughout the world in contemporary society?

• The increasing popularity of a fashion trend that originates in a large city, such as New York, and spreads to small rural towns

• The spread of an Internet meme via social media applications

• The spread of a religion through the migration of adherents of the religion

• The increasing popularity of a new band that spends a year touring cities around the world

• The spread of new slang that becomes widely used in government-funded schools

Which of the following is true of popular culture?

• It is practiced among a homogeneous group of people in the world.

• It is more static than folk culture.

• It incorporates traits that diffuse quickly to a wide variety of places.

• It spreads primarily by relocation diffusion.

• It promotes regional diversity.

Which of the following terms best describes the spatial effects of the Internet on the global diffusion of culture?

• Time-space convergence

• Complementarity

• Cultural divergence

• Push factors

• Pull factors