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What are the 2 main branches of christianity?
Roman Catholics and Protestants
What is the dominant religion in the U.S?
Protestants
What are WASPs?
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
What concept was the U.S. built on?
Immigration
What is a cultural landscape?
A natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs and values.
What are cultural landscapes made up of?
agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, evidence of sequent occupancy, traditional and postmodern agricultural & land use patterns
What is sequence occupancy?
The idea that societies or cultural groups leave their cultural imprints when they live in a place, each contributing to the overall cultural landscape over time - mix of historic and modern structures
What street pattern does the USA follow?
Grid pattern
What street pattern does France follow?
radial pattern
What is the difference between ethnicity and race?
Ethnicity is a sense of belonging or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture whereas race is based on physical characteristics.
What help shape the use of space in a given society?
Attitudes towards ethnicity and gender
What is an ethnic neighborhood/enclave?
People of the same ethnicity that cluster together in a separate location, typically within a major city
What’s diffusion?
The process by which a cultural trait spreads from one place to another over time
Where does a trait originate and diffuse from?
a cultural hearth
What have people brought with them when migrating throughout history?
artefacts and mentifacts of their culture such as religions
