Human Geography Culture

A neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area.

• Ethnic neighborhood

• Blockbusting

• Redlining

• Gentrification

The products and practices of relatively homogeneous and isolated small-scale social groups living in rural locations is

• Cultural imperialism

• Culture diffusion

• Pop culture

• Folk culture

Equal exchange of cultural traits between two cultures.

• Transculturation

• Acculturation

• Cultural landscape

• Distinct culture

A unified set of beliefs, values, and practices of an individual or group operating under a spiritual leader.

• Diety

• Religion

• Faith

• Prophecy

discriminatory ethnic distribution patterns 

• The practice of outlining areas with sizable Black populations in red ink on maps as a warning to mortgage lenders

• discrimination by Identification through language, religion, collective history, national origin, or other cultural characteristics

• The intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part.

• Occurs when the diffusion innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power or high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern.

The spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another.

• Placelessness

• Uniform landscape

• Infrastructure

• Farming practices

Culture that is not tied to a specific location but rather a general location based on widespread diffusion.

• Folk culture

• Culture analysis

• Pop culture

• Infrastructure

The movement of a religion outward from its hearth via means such as missionaries, a diaspora, conquest, or the Internet.

• hierarchical diffusion 

• relocation diffusion 

• religious diffusion patterns 

•        contagious diffusion 

Living in a city or town, is what kind of area?

• Rural

• Urban

• City-state

• Metropolitan

________ is defined human intellectual achievement including but not limited to, the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.

• culture

• democracy

• tertiary sector

• economy