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Unit 3 vocab flaps
human geo unit 3 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Culture | The shared practices, attitudes, and behaviors in a society |
| Cultural traits | Individual aspects of culture; food, preferences, architectures and land use (ex). manners, jokes, child rearing |
| Language | A way of speaking to one another |
| Taboo | Restriction on behavior imposed by culture |
| Cultural relativism | The idea that a person's beliefs, values and practices should be understood |
| Ethnocentrism | The evaluation of another culture based on your culture's opinion |
| Homogenous | Mosly the same; little to no diversity |
| Physical features | Vegetation, mountains, climate, weather elements |
| Agricultural and industrial practices | Fields of a certain crop, industry, or service economy- how developed is it? |
| Religious and linguistic characteristics | Languages on signs, places of worship, religious dresses, holidays |
| Evidence of sequent occupancy | Groups throughout history leave their mark on a place |
| Traditional architecture | Influenced by the local environment built with only materials locally available and reflects history, culture and climate |
| Post-modern architecture | Diverse represents pop culture, businesses, skyscrapers and success |
| Land use patterns | What is the land used for? Agriculture? Transportation? Residential? Economy? |
| Ethnicity | A group of people with a common ancestry, culture and shared homeland |
| Race | Based on physical characteristics |
| Ethnic enclaves | People of the same ethnicity that group together in a specific location usually in a major city |
| Gender Spaces | Place in the cultural landscape utilized to reinforce gender roles for men and women |
| Indigenous land use | Government made reservations that were made into plots of land which tribes were forced to relocate to |
| Subsistence whaling | Adjusting and changing |
| Imperialism | The dominance of a country over another through diplomacy or force |
| Colonialism | When a powerful country establishes settlements in a weaker country for economic and/or political gain |
| Pidgin Language | An extremely simplified, limited non-native language used by two people that speak two different languages |
| Creole Language | A pigeon language that develops into a new combined language with native speakers |
| Dialects | Variations in accent, grammar, usage and spelling. Developed out of geographic distance or isolation |
| Official Language | Used by the government of a country for laws reports signs public objects money and stamps |
| Friction of distance | As a cultural trait diffuses, the people who adopt it might alter it-like the game "Telephone" |
| Globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses and organizations throughout the world without regard to borders or barriers |
| Time-space compression/convergence | The shrinking of the world due to improvements in communication and transportation advances |
| Cultural convergence | The process of two or more cultures coming in contact with each other and adopting each other's traits to become more alike |
| Cultural divergence | Cultures become less alike due to both cultural and physical barriers |
| Language family | A group of related languages that share a common ancestry |
| Accent | A way of pronouncing words |
| Dialect | A regional variant of a language that is understood by the people who speak other variants of that language |
| Monothetic | Relating to the belief of only one God |
| Universalizing religion | A religion that actively seeks new members and believes its message has universal importance and application |
| Ethnic religion | A religion identified with a particular ethnic of tribal group that does not seek converts |
| Acculturation | When people from a culture adopt traits from another culture (ex.) Spanish at home, English in public |
| Assimilation | In which one culture abandons their culture for a new one (ex.) changing religion |
| Multiculturalism | The acceptance of many different cultures which exist in close proximity to one another (ex.) Norse countries |
| Syncretism | The creole language, but it's cultures; two cultures combine into one (ex.) Yorubic and Catholic made into Santeria |
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