Topic #3

  1. What is culture

  • Multicultural cities in North America

  • Cities influence by culture

  • Different cultures in confined space

  • UBC private space

  • Gated communities

  • ethnoscape is the shifting, transnational landscape of people moving across cultures and national borders—such as tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, and guest workers

  • some homogeneous than others

  • ethnoburb is a suburban residential and business area that features a high concentration of a particular ethnic minority population—though that group does not necessarily form a local majority

  • Language important in defining a culture

  • Culture ways if life values the norms

  • Hybrid mixtures refer to the blending of distinct categories, systems, or environments that traditional planners used to treat as opposites

  • mother tongue the very first language a person learns to speak as a child, typically acquired at home from their parents or primary caregivers