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cultural geography

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gender   social differences between men and women   women in other cultures not allowed rights ofmen  
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identity   "how we make sense of ourselves"    
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identifying against   constructing an identity by first defining the "other" and then defining ourselves as not "the other"   Europeans declaring themselves civilized (verses savages and mystical)  
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race   a categorization of human based on skin color and other physical characteristics   segregation against blacks  
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racism   a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals that ascribes (predominantly negative) significance and culturally, politically, and socially constructed ideas based on phenotypical features   against  
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residential segregation   the degree which two or more groups live seperately from one another   isreal, palestine  
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invasion and succession   process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate (take over) areas   Hispanics moving in New York neighborhoods  
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sense of place   state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering past events   home  
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ethnicity   affililiation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture   Japanese  
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space   social relations stretched out (defined by Doreen Massey and Pat Jesse)   moving across country from family  
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place   fourth theme of geography (uniqueness of location)    
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gendered   whether the place is designed for men or women   clothes stores for men or women  
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queer theory   (defined by Glen Elder, Lawrence Knopp, and Heidi Nast) the contextual nature of oppositeion to the heteronormative and focuses on the political engagement of "queers" with the heteronormative   2012 election  
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dowry deaths   disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom   in india  
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barrionization   (defined by James Curtis) the dramatic increase in Hispanic population   such as New York  
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acculturation   the adoptation of cultural traits, such as language,by one group under the influence of another   African states w European traits because of colonization  
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culture   total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior pattern shared by members of a society   there is a culture of "mail order" brides  
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folk culture   cultural traits of usually small traditional cultures    
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popular culture   cultural traits that identify and are part of changeable urban based western societies    
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local culture   a group of people who see themselves as a close community (share experiences cultures and try to preserve them)    
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material culture   physical aspects of culture   architecture or clothing  
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nonmaterial culture   beliefs practices aesthics and values of a group of people   religion  
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hierarchical diffusion   diffusion that spreads first by going to the most connected places    
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hearth   the area a cultural trait originated   were a religion first came to be (common)  
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assimilate   the process by which people lose originally differentiating traits   losing things such as dress speech particularities or mannerism  
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custom   practice routinely followed by a group of people   bowing to elders at new years (for us)  
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cultural appropriation   the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures for their own benefit   Chinese making Korean resturant  
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neolocalism   seeking out of regional culture and reinvigorating of it in uncertainty in modern world    
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ethnic neighborhood   a smaller neighborhood in a large metropolitan city   china town  
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commodification   the process through which something is given monetary value   selling celebrity's stuff  
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authenticity   the accuracy which a single stereotype image or experience conveys an otherwise an otherwise complex culture or custom   Lost city resort in Africa  
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distance decay   The effects of distance on interaction (greater distance, less communication)   Do not see Canadian relatives so much as the ones that live nearby and see Hawaiian ones even less  
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time-space compression   refers to social physiological effects of living in world which t-s convergence has reached high    
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reterritorialization   when people in place start to produce aspect of pop culture themselves    
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cultural landscape   Visible imprints of human activity on the landscape   Driving on the road and seeing restraints and adds  
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placelessness   loss of uniqueness of place in cultural landscape so they all seem same   all streets seem to have fast food  
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global-local continuum   notion that what happens at the global scale has direct effect on local and vice versa    
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folk-housing regions   A region which the housing is of a particular style    
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diffusion routes   Spatial trajectory through through which cultural traits and other phenomena move   Silk road and trade  
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glocalization   the process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes    
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