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WorksheetsUnit 3 Review
Total questions: 96
Worksheet time: 47mins
________________ culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits.
Material
Popular
Folk
d) Local
The ________ of a group of people includes the things they construct.
non-material culture
folk culture
material culture
pop culture
Which is an example of a non-material aspect of culture?
church building
religious decoration
burning of incense
an altar
In terms of popular culture, cities like Paris, New York, and Milan are referred to as
capitals.
local cultures.
world cities.
hearths.
Efforts to conserve local cultures often focus on the local ____________.
landmarks
boundaries
mobility
customs
Anabaptist, Hutterites, and Amish groups have tried to restrict contact with the outside world by
migrating to rural areas.
joining the National Council of Churches.
adopting distinctive modes of dress.
political protest.
A policy of the U.S. government in the 1800s and into the 1900s to force indigenous peoples into the dominant culture in order to make American Indians into “Americans” rather than “Indians.”
cultural empowerment
cultural assimilation
cultural compassion
The process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge of cultures and use them for their own benefit.
cultural appreciation
reterritorialization
cultural appropriation
neolocalism
A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.
pop culture
local culture
culture
sub culture
Recently, Puerto Ricans living in Spanish Harlem in New York feel themselves challenged by the influx of Mexican immigrants to the neighborhood. This would be an example of the threat of _____________ to an ethnic neighborhood.
popular culture
other ethnic groups
assimilation
Gentrification
The commodification process of a local custom or artifact often leads to the development of an image of “authenticity” which amounts to an example of
cultural relativism.
cultural parasitism.
cultural stereotyping.
local autonomy.
The process through which something (a name, a good, an idea, or even a person) that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought or sold becomes an object that can be bought, sold, and traded in the world market (see IMAGES above)
capitalism
glocalization
commodification
just plain loco
South Korea is a hearth of global popular culture that influences surrounding regions
foods
music
sports
fashion
The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape created by the spread of popular culture........Especially in the USA
popular landscape
cultural landscape
placelessness
McLandscape
Which is NOT an aspect of cultural landscape convergence?
globalized architectural forms
globalization of particular businesses and products
borrowing of idealized landscape images
development of regional architectural styles
Which of the following religions is the fastest spreading religion today?
Christianity
Buddhism
Hinduism
Islam
All of the following are characteristics of a universalizing religion except
connected to a specific founder
generally widespread
seeks to convert
followers are highly clustered
Which of the following religions are considered to be universalizing religions?
Buddhism, Christianity, & Islam
Islam, Hinduism, & Buddhism
Hinduism, Judaism, & Christianity
Judaism, Islam, Buddhism
Which religion has the most followers?
Islam
Judaism
Christianity
Buddhism
Who is considered the "Patriarch" or father of the Semitic (monotheistic) religions?
Isaac
Noah
Jesus
Abraham
Which of the following believes that all things possess a "kami" or divine spirit?
Islam
Shintoism
Bahai
Zoroastranism
One of the unique characteristics of Hinduism is that it:
is so young
is a very simple religion
emerged without a prophet or book of scriptures
has so few followers
The map shows the distribution of what major world religion?
Hinduism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
A country with a low percentage of women in its adult labor force might be
Sweden
Lesotho
Qatar
Russia
A simplified lingua franca created to facilitate communication is known as a:
pidgin language
dialect
creole language
isolated language
Which of the following countries has the largest percentage of Roman Catholics?
United States
Great Britain
Indonesia
Brazil
Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?
A coral reef
A stand of pine trees
Terraced fields of crops up a mountainside
Glaciers
Which of the following is NOT an ethnic religion?
Hinduism
Judaism
Shintoism
Buddhism
Isoglosses are used to mark
Creation of pidgins
Extent to which a lingua franca is used in a certain area
Limits for an area in which certain words or other language features are used
Area in which an extinct language is used
Acculturation is a process whereby
A more dominant culture adopts most of the traits of the less dominant culture
The dominant culture completely absorbs the less dominant one
Cultural traits are equally exchanged between cultures
The less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of the more influential one
Which language has become the world's primary lingua franca?
Mandarin
Hindi
German
English
A frequent repetition of an act, that can become a characteristic of a group of people is known as:
Custom
Popular Culture
Folk Culture
physical trait
The geographical locations of all four cultural hearths illustrate on the map (right) were in
Areas with abundant rainfall
Coastal areas
Cold climates
River valleys
Hint: The trunk of the tree
The following are reasons for the origin and diffusion of Romance languages EXCEPT
The spread of the Roman Empire and its lingua franca Latin
The collapse of the Roman Empire and its lingua franca Latin
The isolation of many forms of Latin and their evolution into dinstinct languages
The mountainless uniform topography which kept cultures similar and united
