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Custom |
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristics of the group of people preforming the art |
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Habit |
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
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Taboo |
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom |
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Creole or creolized language |
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated |
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Denglish |
A combination of German and English |
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Ebonics |
A dialect spoken by some African Americans |
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Extinct Language |
A language that was once used by people in dailey activities but is no longer used |
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Franglais |
A tern used by the French for English words that have entered the French language |
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Isolated Language |
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |
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Lingua Franca |
A language mutually understoof and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
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Literary tradition |
A language that is written as well as spoken |
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Logogram |
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound |
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Official language |
The language adopted for use by rhe government for the conduct of buisness and publication of documents |
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Pidgin language |
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages |
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Spanglish |
A combination pf spanish and english spoken by Hispanic Americans |
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Vulgar latin |
A form of latin used in dailey conversation by ancient romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents |
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What are the 2 elements of culture |
Dailey necesities and lesiure |
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What is the difference between a habit and a custom |
Habit is done by one person while custom is done by a group |
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Hearth |
The origin of an idea |
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What is the difference between the origins of folk culture v.s. pop culture |
Folk origins are often unknown while pop is know and then used for money |
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What is the difference between the diffusion of folk v.s. pop culture |
Folk culture is diffused slowly and through generations. Pop is spread through economic gain |
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Name one difference between folk music and pop music |
Folk tells a story, pop makes money |
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What is the artistic style of Buddhists |
Religious figures |
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What is the artistic style of Hindus |
Everyday life and well known places |
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What is the artistic style of Muslims |
Plants and inanimate objects |
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What is the artistic style of Animists |
Symbols |
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What elements influence the type of clothing a culture wears |
Environmental and culture |
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How can clothing be controversial |
Folk v.s. pop |
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What has lead to the rapid diffusion on clothing styles |
Jobs |
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Give an example of how food is influenced by the environment |
What you have is what you get |
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Explain what a food taboo is |
Food your not allowed to eat |
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Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. They are also apart of what culture? |
Pop. Culture |
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Before reaching oyher parts of (Chicago, Boston, Philidelphia, NYC) and eventually, marginalized urban areas throughout the country, hip hop music originated in the late 1970s in the south Bronx |
NYC |
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In recent decade, popular customs have most frequently originated in less or more developed countries |
More developed countries |
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One significant impact on pop culture is to A) create a more varied and less uniform landscape B) promote the diffuson of folk culture C) modify the physical environment D) diffuse at the expense of globalization |
C) modify the physical environment |
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The main effect of modern communications om social customs has been to... |
Increase the similarity of aocial customs in different locations |
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The rapid diffusion of pop culture... |
Depends on mofern communication systems |
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A taboo against pork is a characteristic of... |
Judiasm and Islam |
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Little wine is produced in Asia primarily because |
The people do not have a tradition of wine making |
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Americans' preferences for beverages and snacks |
Vary according to what is produced locally |
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In which state would alcohol consumption be relatively low? Utah. Nevada, Kentucky, or California |
Utah |
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Pioneer farmers settling the grasslands of American West often built houses of sod, while early settlers of thw wastern forest built wooden structures. This suggests that building materials... |
Are strongly influences by local resources |
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The trend of globalization has threatened... |
Folk culture more the pop culture |
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The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish is an example of what type of culture? |
Folk |
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Ad they have more conatacf with popular cultuee, women in less developed countries are more likely to... |
Gain more opportunities outside the home |
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The main difference between laguages in the same family, branch, or group is how... |
Recently in time the languages were once the same |
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Basque is a good example of an |
Isolated language |
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What are the 2 largest language families? |
Sini-Tibetan and Indie European |
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What language family has the languages of the Peoples Republic of China |
Sino-Tibetan |
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Both the Angles and the Normans contributed to the development of the English language, because they... |
Invaded englad |
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The first speakers of the labguage that eveolved into English were tribes that lived in present day... |
Denmark |
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Which is a romance language? A) Bulgarian B) Italian C) Portuguese D) Romanian |
A) Bulgarian |
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What is the most widely spoken language in Brazil? Why? |
Portugese, Portugal colonized Brazil |
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What is the most widely spoken language in Argentina? Why? |
Spanish, Spain colonized Argentina |
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Who were the Kurgans |
Therorized first proto-indo-european speakers |
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According to Colin Renfrews research, how did indo-european languages diffuse across Europe? |
With agriculture |
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What language branch is English part of? What family? |
Germanic, indo-european |
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What language branch is russian psrt of? Which family? |
Balto-slavic, indo-european |
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Marija Gimbutas has contributed to the _________ Hypothesis |
Nomadic Warrior |
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The survival of any language relies on... |
The politicol and military strength of its speakers |
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British and american english differ in what 3 ways |
Vocab, spelling, and pronunciation |
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Gumbo and jazz are terms that originated in the english dialects of what culture? |
African-Americans |
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Why has the Icelandis language changed less than any other Germanic language? |
It's isolated |
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What language has the most native speakers? Why? |
Mandarin, all of China uses it as the first language they learn. |
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Chinese is written in the form of... |
Logograms |
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Hebrew is an example of a _________ language |
Revived |
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_________ is to Canada as _________ is to the United States |
French, Spanish |
