Global Studies: Culture

Why is culture "like an iceberg?"

• Culture is always cold.

• Culture is floating around.

• Culture contains elements that are seen and unseen.

• Culture only occurs in regions far to the north of the Equator.

Dialect is part of what element?

• Arts
• Economy
• Language
• History

Way of speaking or communication

• Daily Needs
• Arts
• Language
• Religion

A learned system of shared beliefs, goals, and ways of doing things:

• culture region

• ethnicity

• diversity

• culture

A site of innovation from which ideas, materials,

and technology diffuse

• Cultural region

• Cultural hearth

• Cultural directory

• Cultural convention

Which of the following is true of culture?

• Cultures NEVER change.

• One culture can influence another culture.

• There is only ONE culture in the United States.

• Culture is based on genetics.

What are Dialects?

• An extremely simplified, limited non-native language used by two people that speak two different languages

• A common language used by speakers of two diffrent languages for communication

• Variations in accent, grammar, usage and spelling and develop out of geographic distance of isolation

• Used by the government of a country for laws, reports, signs, public objects, money, stamps

Which describes a society or cultural region?

• Better healthcare and better economy encourage people to move.

• Negative events causing people to move away

• People living in an area that share the same language, religion, and common geographic features.

• Countries trading goods to improve the economy.

Which of the following have their own unique cultures?

• Countries

• Schools

• Families

• All of the above

Folk culture

• practiced by small homogeneous groups in isolated, rural areas

• practiced by large heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite being different.