QUIZ-CULTURE VOCAB

What is culture?

• traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups

• encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects.

• Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

• members are in the majority or who wield more power than other groups

cultural diffusion

• The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

• tendency for culture to become increasingly dissimilar with passage of time

• cultures to become similar to one another or even combine and take on a new identity

Define Acculturation

• The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.

• adoption or co-opting, usually without acknowledgment, of cultural identity markers associated with or originating in minority communities by people or communities with a relatively privileged status

• The adoption of genetic trait by one group under the influence of another.

What is an ethnic group?

• grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society

• Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics

• the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.

What is a dialect?

• an official language sustained by the state

• a group of languages descended from a common ancestral language

• A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

What is assimilation?

• The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.

• The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

• when a less dominant culture is completely absorbed by a dominant one, taking many generations

What was the Columbian exchange?

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Cortez's voyages.

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Pizarro's voyages.

What is a cultural region?

• a region defined by similar physical features

• a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features

• an exact place on Earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude

What happens during cultural convergence?

• The likelihood or tendency for cultures to become increasingly different with the passage of time.

• Cultures become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.

• The likelihood or tendency for cultures to disappear altogether

Define Lingua Franca

• a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce

• a group of languages descended from a common ancestral language

• a variation of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines