APHG U3

traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas

Folk Culture

found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics

Popular Culture

Habit

A repetitive act that a particular individual performs

Custom

A repetitive act of a group, performed to an extent it becomes a characteristic of the group

Anonymous sources, unknown dates, unidentified originators

Folk Culture Origin

How does folk culture diffuse?

Relocation Diffusion (migration)

How does folk culture distribute?

Combination of local, physical, and cultural factors

Popular Culture Origin

Specified person, corporation, or place

How does Popular Culture diffuse?

Hierarchical Diffusion

How does Pop Culture distribute?

Wide, many countries, little regard to physical factors

Folk Music

Music that tells a story about the past

How is folk music transmitted?

Orally

Origin of Soccer-Pop Culture

Founded in the U.K. for recreation

Where is Washu most popular?

China

Where is baseball most popular?

North America, Japan

Where is football most popular?

North America, Australia, Canada

In western countries where popular culture predominates, clothing styles generally reflect _______ rather than particular __________

Occupation, Environments

Food preferences are strongly influenced by....

Cultural Traditions

Can't eat animals that don't chew their cud or have cloven feet

Ancient Hebrews Taboo

Muslim Taboo

Can't eat pork

Ainu people in Japan avoid __________ because they believe it will cause ________.

Otters, memory loss

Hindu Taboo

Can't eat cattle

Muslim, Hindu, and Jew Taboo

Can't eat meat

Minimal Traditional Time Frame

1935-1950

Ranch House Time Frame

1935-1975

Split-Level Time Frame

1955-1975

Contemporary Style Time Frame

1940-1980

Shed Style Time Frame

1960-Present

The most popular leisure activity in the world is...

Television

What 3 countries dominate television markets?

Japan, U.S, U.K

2 largest newspaper organizations

Associated Press, Reuters

Uniform Landscape

distribution of popular culture around the world

Identify with a group of people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth

Ethnicity

Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor

Race

The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

Racism

What are the 3 most numerous ethnicities in the United States?

Asian American, African American, Hispanic American

Where are hispanics clustered?

Southwest

Where are African Americans clustered?

Southeast

Where are Asian Americans clustered?

West

the emigration of whites from an area in anticipation of blacks moving into the area

white flight

real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices

blockbusting

Apartheid

physical seperation of different races into different geographic areas

identity with a group of people who share a legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country

nationality

nationalism

loyalty and devotion to a nationality

an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

centripetal forces

a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

ethnic cleansing

The 5 Nationalities of Yugoslavia are...

Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs, Slovens

The 4 Languages of Yugoslavia are...

Croatian, Macedonians, Slovene, Serbian

The 3 Religions of Yugoslavia are...

Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Islam

The 2 Alphabets of Yugoslavia are...

Roman and Cryllic

What country controlled Kosovo?

Serbia

What ethnic group lives in Kosovo?

Albanian (90%)

A small area that can't be organized into one or more stable states because it has many ethnicities that don't get along

Balkanized

The process a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities-as a threat to peace throughout the world, not just in a small area

Balkanization

Language

an oral system of communication

the language adopted for use by it's government for business and official documents

Official Language

Language Family

collection of languages related through a common ancestor from history

A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago

Language Branch

A collection of languages within a branch that are similar, or come from the same origin

Language Group

What is the language family predominant in Europe, South Asia, and North and Latin America?

Indo-European

What language family is predominant in China?

Sino-Tibetan

Language family based in Southeast Asia

Austro-Aisiatic

Language family spoken in Thailand and neighboring portions of China

Tai Kadai

Language family-Major language of the family is Arabic

Afro-Asiatic

A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominates

Isogloss

Standard Language

form of language used for government business, education, and mass communication

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communication among speakers of two different languages

Pidgin Language

A form of latin used in daily conversation by ancient romans

Vulgar Latin

A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

Creolized Language

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

Lingua Franca

Universalizing Religion

A religion that appeals to all people, not a particular location

Atheism

the belief that God does not exist

Agnosticism

the belief that nothing can be known about if God exists

Pilgrimage

a journey to a sacred place for religious purposes

Hierarchical Religion

a religion that revolves around a hierarchical system

Autonomous Religion

a religion without a central authority but shares idea

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or sector, denomination, or branch)

Fundamentalism

Trunk of Language Tree

Language Families

Leaves of Language Tree

individual languages

Branches of Language Tree

Language branch

The 4 most widely used contemporary romance languages are...

Spanish, Portugese, French, Italian

In June _____ the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb who sought independence for Bosnia. (World War I Starts soon after)

1820

In ________, several civil wars have raged since the 1980s between Arab-Muslim dominated government in the north and other ethnicities in the south, west, and east.

Sudan

The ____________ Peninsula, a complex assemblage of ethnicities, has long been a hotbed of unrest. (Former Yugoslavian Republics)

Balkan

When Rwanda, became an independent country in 1962, the _________ gained power.

Hutus

The largest forced migration of the 20th century came during _____________.

World War 2

As Sudan's religion-based civil war was winding down, an ethnic war erupted in Sudan's westernmost region, ____________.

Darfur

____________, located along the Red Sea, became an Italian Colony in 1890.

Eritrea

The transformation of football from an English folk custom to global popular culture began in the _______.

1800s

___________ is popular primarily in the United Kingdom and former British colonies, especially in South Asia, South Pacific, and Caribbean.

Cricket