Unit 3: Culture

Which of the following is the best example assimilation?

• Hinduism diffused from India to Bali, where it blended with traditional Balinese beliefs to create a form of Hinduism unique to Bali.

• The American government educated Native American children in American-style boarding schools. All of the children were taught English, and girls were taught how to be homemakers.

• Despite the large number of historic churches in France, many French identify as nonreligious and believe that religion is a private matter.

• A family immigrates to a new country, settles near others from their homeland, and conducts most of their day-to-day activities within their ethnic neighborhood.

The notion that the physical environment causes social development – the environment limits human activity

• environmental determinism

• possibilism

• culture

• resources

Cultural landscape can be defined as

• the types of art, music, dance, and theater practiced in a particular region

• the ways that people in differing cultures perceive the environment

• a particular area within a geographic region dedicated to cultural activities

• the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans

Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?

• Built environment

• Physical environment

• Environmental determinism

• Cultural ecology

The popularity of American bands in Europe is an example of:

• globalization of culture 
• assimilation 
• ethnocentrism 
• transculturation 

practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture and generates misunderstanding, ignorance and conflict 

• Ethnosuperiorism
• Egotism
• Ethnocentrism
• Human nature

Acculturation is a process whereby

• A more dominant culture adopts most of the traits of the less dominant culture

• The dominant culture completely absorbs the less dominant one

• Cultural traits are equally exchanged between cultures

• The less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of the more influential one

Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of

• pidgin languages

• lingua franca

• standard language

• creole language

In terms of diffusion, what is a hearth?

• The point of origin
• The final destination
• The mid-way point
• All points along the diffusion route

The world’s three major monotheistic religions originated in which of the following regions?

• East Asia

• Eastern Europe

• Southwest Asia

• Western Europe