APHG Unit 3 Unit review

The cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.

Changing ones name

The process in which a minority group or culture comes to adopt the dominant culture’s values, behaviors, and beliefs.

Forces that pull people apart.

Forces that bring people together.

The Nazi’s; Hitler

Control by one power over a dependent area or people, often involving subjugation, exploitation, and imposition of language and cultural values.

occurs when a cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people

religious beliefs, viral social media trends, and fashion styles illustrate the spread of ideas, innovations, or items through a local population via person-to-person contact and influence.

language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

French-Creole/Haitian creole (spoken in Haiti),

The tendency for cultures to become more alike through shared technology and organizational structures.

The likelihood for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar over time.

The Amish community in the USA exemplifies cultural divergence as they intentionally preserve their distinct way of life, resisting modernization and maintaining traditional practices that distinguish them from mainstream American culture.

Cultural convergence involves cultures becoming more alike through technology and practices, while cultural divergence entails cultures becoming more distinct as they resist external influences and emphasize their uniqueness.

The origin place of a major culture, an innovation center.

Mesopotamia, the Nile River Valley, and the Indus Valley

Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Tokyo, each contributing significantly to their respective fields of innovation and culture.

The visible human imprint on the land, the artificial landscape.

The ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu, with its terraced fields and stone structures nestled in the Andes Mountains

Understanding a person's beliefs based on their own culture rather than judging against another's criteria.

The Padong long neck women, with their practice of wearing brass neck coils, exemplify cultural relativism as it is impossible to be able to judge or be able to understand their culture by looking it through it with your own, and it explfy that you need to see it through their eyes to understand why they do what they do.

A total way of life shared by a group, including speech, ideology, behavior, technology, and government.

A single element of a cultural practice.

A voluntary community where people of similar origin reside by choice; Ethnic enclaves

A religion associated with a particular ethnic or tribal group that does not seek converts.

Judaism and hinduism

Affiliation within a group bound by common ancestry and culture.

The belief that one's own race and culture are superior to others.

The spread of ideas, behaviors, or culture traits from one place to another through contact and exchange.

The increasing interconnection of the world's social, cultural, political, and economic processes; a result of space-time compression

• Economic Globalization: The world's businesses and money are getting more mixed together.

• Cultural Globalization: Ideas, music, and movies from one place are spreading everywhere.

• Political Globalization: Countries work together to solve global issues

The spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and influence

when fashion trends start in big cities and then move to smaller towns, same as music and trends

Extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or force.

Belief systems passed down among people within an indigenous tribe or group.

A local or regional variant of a language that remains intelligible to speakers of other dialects.

Related languages derived from a common ancestor.

The Indo-European language family is crucial because it includes many widely spoken languages, has shaped world culture, and has a significant role in linguistics and global communication.

A widely used language of communication and commerce.

Past: French

Present: English

The study of the spatial distribution of languages and groups.

The presence of several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

A simplified language used for limited communication among people with different languages.

Pidgin Languages are simple, temporary languages used for communication between people who don't share a language. They have limited vocabulary and are not native to any community. Creole Languages are more developed languages that emerge from pidgins. They have complete vocabulary and more complex grammar and are spoken as native languages in communities, often reflecting their culture and history.

The loss of locally distinctive characteristics and identity.

 Identical fast-food restaurants with the same menu and design in different cities. Housing developments with houses that look the same, lacking unique architectural features. Airports with terminals that share a similar, standardized design and layout.

A people-centered approach to the design and management of public spaces.

Architectural style incorporating playful and symbolic elements from classical to modern designs.

The transport of ideas or behaviors through migration; at times, the areas where migrants settle continue a trait after it has lot its influence at the hearth

when a trait diffuses from a group of lower status to a group of higher status

Walmart, and tattoos

The general ways in which people feel about and assign values to places.

Successive habitation of the same area over time.

when an underlying idea from a cultural hearth is adopted by another culture cut the adopting group modifies or rejects one trait

Development of a new culture trait by combining elements of distinct cultural traits.

"Shalom Y'all" is an example of syncretism because it combines the Hebrew greeting "Shalom" with the Southern American English "Y'all" to create a new, culturally blended phrase.

Accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas due to technological innovations.

in the past, it might take days to communicate with someone in Japan, but today, we can do it instantly using emails and video calls.

Place name.

Descriptive Toponym- A name that describes a feature located there

Associative Toponym- A name that identifies with human adaptations to the location

Incident Toponym- A name associated with something that happened there

Commemorative Toponym- A name in order to honor a famous person

Commendatory Toponym- A name to praise the town

Possessive Toponym- Named after the founder of the area

Manufactured Toponym- A name just made up; something new

Mistaken Toponym- Names with historic mess-ups

Shift Toponym- Shifting a name already existing to the new place

Religions that attempt to appeal to all people globally.

A series of connected traits

• Imitations

• Informal instruction: when you are reminded to keep doing a specific thing

• Formal instruction; learn something in school

Is used to merge the three cultures that include traditional, folk, and indigenous; All three types share the function of passing down long-held beliefs values, and practices and are generally resistant to Rapid change in their culture

The beliefs and practices of small homogeneous groups of people often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change

The Amish ( can also be seen as traditional culture)

When members of an ethnic group resides in their ancestral lands and typically possess unique cultural traits such as speaking their own exclusive language; Some indigenous peoples have been displaced but still practice their culture

Native Americans and the Inuit people

Ways people organize their society and relate to one another

A style that reflects a Local's cultural history believes in values and Community adaptations for the environment and typically utilizes locally available materials; Adobe

This style uses multiple advances to create buildings that rotate curve and stretch the limits of size and height

Include multiple cultural regions

The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a place

The process of reimbursing the uniqueness and authenticity of a place

laws that constrict certain activities; usually influenced by religion

Countries whose governments are run by religious leaders

an attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious fate

scientists that study language

saying that attempt to express a truth about life, such as “The early bird get the worm”

A form of syncretism that involves the creation of products or services for the global markets by adapting them to local cultures

anti-immigrant; xenophobic