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CULTURE NOTES
Culture definition: feature’s of a group of people’s way of life, passed down through generations by teachings, examples and imitation. (you will become your parents)
How do cultures develop? 10 % innovation 90 % diffusion
Examples from USA innovation
Examples from USA diffusion
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Culture Hearth:
Center of learning and innovation that diffuses to other regions
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How do cultures spread?
Culture moves with people (migration) and trade.
The spice trade.
The Silk Road
When people move, they take their language, religion, foods, clothing with them.
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Elements of Culture (what makes up a culture)
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Assimilation: joining or fitting in with a larger culture. (German descendants in the USA.)
Acculturation: a culture accepting an innovation or diffusion from another culture.
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Ethnocentrism: judging other cultures by the rules of your culture.
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Are you an ethnocentric?
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Languages
World’s most understood language
World’s largest single language
Dialects –a regional way to speak a language
New Englanders drop the “r” from many words.
I will park my “caw” in front to the “baw.”
Southern examples?
Lingua franca – a non-native language many educated people understand. English in India.
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Underrepresented groups/populations – general term that refers often refers to “minorities” and women that have historically not been represented in a cultural and political sense.
Women in the U.S. Senate
French ban on the hijab in schools
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Cultural convergence
Contact between two cultures – similar to acculuration – how cultures borrow from each other and change over time.
cutural convergance is growing cultural unity.
Example: people around the world read a lot of the same books watch a lot of the same movies and
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Cultural divergence: Cultures growing more apart generally due to outside influences.
French and English in Quebec, Canada
Immigrants not learning the native language
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Christianity is the largest, Islam is the fastest growing.
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Monotheism
Belief in a single deity(God)
ChristianityJudaismIslam
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Polytheism
Belief in two or more deities (gods)
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Branches of Christianity
Protestant
Catholic
Orthodox
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Hearth of Judaism and Christianity - Israel
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The holy city of Islam is?
The holy city for Jews and Christians and a holy city for Muslims is?
Jerusalem
Mecca
Western Wall
Dome of the Rock
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
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Sacred writings
Quran
Torah
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Hearth of Judaism - Israel
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Branches of Islam: Sunni (85%) and Shiite (Shia) (15%)
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The hearth and the holy city of Islam, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
The Hajj or pilgrimage all Muslims are supposed to make to Mecca at least once in their lives.
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The country with the largest Muslim population in the world is?
Indonesia
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Buddhism Founded by Siddhartha Gautama in India
Believe in the “Eightfold Path” and “Four Noble Truths” in order to build a more harmonious world.
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Hinduism has no single founder. It is considered the oldest continuous religion, possibly dating back 5,000 years.
Hindu holy man
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fate
Karma is the reward for living a proper life in your previous live.
Hindu’s believe in death and rebirth, or, reincarnation.
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Brahmans
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Sudras
Showing theoriginal castelevels in the pyramidshape symbolizes “status”from highest to lowest, but also representsthe the portion of the populationfitting into each level.
Untouchables are NOT a part of the caste system.
Largest %of population
A person is bornand will die inthe same caste
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Most Hindus in the world live in India with some 800 million people
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Punjab in India is the hearth of the Sikh faith.
Golden Dome in Amritsar
Tens of thousands of Sikhs have migrated to Europe and North America
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Traditional, or Animist, religions are found all around the world, but primarily in LDC’s today.
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The Columbian Exchange left behind the primary language of Spanish as well as the Catholic religion.
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And early “globalization”
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When the Spanish arrived there were ~30 million natives
•80%-90% decimated by European diseases like smallpox and measles.
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Both positive and negative results.
disease wiped out many Native Americans in Latin America
new animals and foods changed ways of life
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The native Indian tribes were forced to work on European plantations. Between brutal work, disease, and mistreatment, most Caribbean Indians died.
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To solve this labor problem, the Europeans brought African slaves over to work on the plantations. On many of the islands today, the majority of the population is of African descent.
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A lasting legacy of the Columbian Exchange is found in the ethnic diversity found in Latin America.