Culture

What is the definition of culture

• The Shared experience, traits, and activities of a group of people who have a common heritage

• The experiences that people have that make them similar

• People who are alike in 2 ways or more

• The shared religion and or the shared actions and beliefs that make people belong to a specific group

The blending together of two or more cultures. EX:  Country music is often thought of as a product of American culture and is strongly tied to folk music traditions. However, the mixture of musical sounds, vocabulary, rhythms, and instruments from the Scots-Irish, the German, African immigrants, and enslaved people in the American South and Appalachia came together to form a new style of music.

• Culture Fusion

• Photosynthesis

• Cultural Synthesis

• Cultural Diffusion

____ is an important identifier of groups culture and a source of local pride

• Religion

• Language

• Clothing

• Art

Identify this religious structure:

Temples and shrines tend to have a rectangular shaped main body and feature one or more short towers of carved stone

• The towers often feature stepped sides and display carvings of heads and faces of deities (faces of Brahma)

• Hindu

• Islam

• Christian

• Buddhist

Identify this religious structure:

• Hindu

• Islam

• Christian

• Buddhist

Identify this religious structure:

• Hindu

• Islam

• Christian

• Buddhist

Identify this religious structure:

• A Mosque is one or more minarets, narrow towers that are pointed on top. Almost all mosques are built on an angle that places the main prayer area toward Mecca

• Hindu

• Islam

• Christian

• Buddhist

Identify this religious structure:

• Hindu

• Islam

• Christian

• Buddhist

Identify this religious structure:

• Hindu

• Islam

• Christian

• Buddhist

Does the United States have an official designated laguage

• yes

• No