APHUG Unit 3 Review

Less developed countries fear the loss of folk culture because

• they do not want to preserve traditional values.

• popular culture devalues women.

• Western perspectives may become more dominant.

• they want to avoid political disputes

Folk cultures are spread mainly by

• contagious diffusion.

• hierarchical diffusion.

• relocation diffusion.

• stimulus diffusion.

Diffusion of social media has threatened

• folk culture more than popular culture.

• the folk customs of only a few isolated communities.

• popular culture and folk culture about equally

• folk culture, but only in the largest cities on each continent.

Pop or modern culture has most frequently originated in

• less developed countries

• more developed countries

• Latin America and Africa

• countries with large rural populations

Early settlers of the eastern forest built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that building materials

• are elements of popular culture.

• are commonly imported over long distances because of folk culture.

• are strongly influenced by local resources.

• are a uniform feature of folk culture.

The two largest language families in the world are

• Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic.

• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

• Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan.

• Altaic and Nilo-Saharan.

The Gullah language is spoken in African-American communities of the coastal southeastern United States. It is a combination of Elizabethan English and African dialects. On can describe Gullah as a

• Creolized language.

• Lingua franca.

• Sino-Tibetan dialect.

• language family.

On the continent of Africa, the great number of languages results from

• transfer of Indo-European languages by missionaries.

• colonial influence.

• at least 5,000 years of minimal interaction among the thousands of culture groups.

• migration patterns by early Europeans.

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

• East Asia

• Southwest Asia

• Eastern Europe

• Western Europe

All of the following are characteristics of Hinduism EXCEPT

• It uses human and animal images in its sacred spaces.

• Pilgrims bathe in holy rivers

• It is a universalizing religion.

• Sacred places are established by tradition.