Unit 3 Module 18 MCQ Practice

South Korea, a country whose culture highly values respect, has a baseball league where players flip their bats as a signature move after home runs, something that is seen in the United States as disrespectful to the pitcher and the game. Which of the following best explains this regional difference in the cultures?

• South Korea has not been exposed to American culture enough to understand the unwritten rules of the game.

• Baseball’s culture may have originated in the United States, but the culture changed as it has moved to other areas.

• East Asian versions of baseball developed from local, indigenous games with different customs.

• Baseball, or any sport, will adopt the culture of the new place more so than the culture of the sport.

• Korean culture has reshaped baseball to reject American individualism and embrace a greater respect for uniformity.

The Saami are a people who live in the northern parts of Scandinavian countries that historically herd reindeer. The Saami are

• a nonmaterial culture

• a racial group

• an indigenous culture

• a multistate nation

• an ethnocentric people

The invention of the printing press in 1439 trans-formed the political, religious, economic, and lin-guistic context of Europe and everywhere to which it diffused. The printing press:

• expanded the reach of political, economic, and religious messages, but did not change them.

• quickened the cultural movements that would have emerged with or without the printing press.

• allowed cultures to change by adapting the cultural context of these societies.

• became an important part of the material culture of many local cultures.

• enabled indigenous cultures to become popular cultures.

Regardless of the country in which they are born, people of Mexican ancestry might share some cultural similarities, even if they don’t natively speak the same language. Mexicans are:

• a racial group

• an ethnic group

• a multistate nation

• a culturally relativistic people

• a language family

Which of the following is the belief that one's own culture is the best or better than others?

• ethos

• prejudice

• ethnocentrism

• stereotyping

• acculturation

Identify which of the following concepts or processes is symbolized by the pagoda in the image.

• Acculturation

• Material culture

• Assimilation

• Cultural trait

• Syncretism

Identify the cultural trait that influences the architecture of the cultural landscape shown in the image.

• Ethnicity

• Language

• Taboos

• Religion

• Gender

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

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural traits

• Unitary state

• Culture hearth

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.

A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in which of the following regions?

• The United States Midwest

• Southeast Asia

• Western Europe

• The Middle East

• China