Review Game

Hutterites differ from the Amish in that they reject modern technology.

 The difference between local culture and folk culture comes down to heterogeneity vs. homogeneity.

 Hierarchical diffusion differs from contagious diffusion in that it is less tied to physical proximity. * Physical proximity = close in distance

 Anxiety mounts when local customs become threatened by popular culture.

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Early 20 th century policies in the United States regarding Native Americans Early 20 th century policies in Canada regarding Native Americans The 20 th century policy of Russification Switzerland recognizing four official languages.

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The “Lost City” in South Africa Amish Acres in northern Indiana Little Sweden The barrio

 Urban local cultures are usually synonymous with ethnic neighborhoods.

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cultural appropriation.

commodification.

authenticity.

assimilation.

 The danger in the commodification of culture traits is that they will become stereotyped.

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Dave Matthews Band and Phish Hip Hop Crocs and Sperries Tex-Mex cuisine

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Japanese redevelopment of American comic books and animation into their own “anime”.

The dubbing of “the Simpsons” into French for the French viewing audience.

The creation of Disney Princesses of different ethnicities and story lines. The development of Christian Rock music

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Architecture Signs and bill boards Grave sites Food

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Poke Mon Russian nesting dolls Halloween Rap

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Fast food chains like McDonalds Box stores like Walmart Architectural forms like the sky scraper Cultural landscapes such as the Mormon village

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There often lies a power struggle based on economic importance and political control.

Ideas relating to gender are socialized.

Gender inequalities stop when governments make laws to support an under-privileged sex.

It is a culture's assumptions about the differences between men and women, their character, roles and divisions of labor

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Banks in Sub-Saharan Africa will not lend money to rural women.

Domestic work of women is often not identified as an economic product, yet has economic value. Though dowries are a old tradition in Hindu culture, dowry deaths are a newer phenomenon based on new economic realities. On the Tobacco plantations in Africa, women who hold the title to the land, actually received bonuses.

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African-Americans and Hispanics Hispanics and Korean-Americans African-Americans and Korean-Americans Indian and Vietnamese-Americans

 Geographers interested in race, equity, and gender are ultimately interested in how assumptions about "the other" are formed.

 Judaism is considered an ethnic religion because it started with the Hebrew tribes and has never really set out to spread the religion through missionaries or the like.

 Dripping Springs has a local culture because it is a place which contains a group of people who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share customs and traits.

 Local cultures are static or unchanging.

 Popular culture is threatening to local cultures in that they can change rapidly in periods as short as days or even hours.

 One way of identifying ourselves is to "identify against," i.e. define the "other" and thus define ourselves as not the other.

 Indigenous peoples of South India, New Guinea, and Australia are about as dark skinned as native Africans yet are separate races.