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Folk culture is
Homogenous
Rural
Slowly changing / stagnant
All of the above
Folk music usually
Is created by well-known artists
Has anonymous authors over generations
Made to generate profit
Has urban hearths
Popular culture steals and/or misrepresents an aspect of folk culture for profit
Cultural assimilation
Cultural imperialism
Cultural syncretism
Cultural appropriation
An example of hierarchical diffusion
Migrant bringing their food culture to the US
McDonald's building restaurants in India but not serving beef
A celebrity adopting a new hairstyle and starting a trend
Finding out about a new song from your cousin
Dominant language family in the regions above
Niger - Congo
Indo - European
Latin Americano
Sino - Tibetan
Dominant language family in the regions above
Sino -Tibetan
Afro - Asiatic
Niger - Congo
Afrikaans
When two people who speak different languages use English to conduct business, we can consider English a(n)
Assimilated language
Lingua Franca
Pidgin Language
Creole Language
This region of the world is most likely the hearth of what language family?
Austro - Asiatic
Indo - European
Altaic
Sino - Tibetan
Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese are all
Sino - Tibetan languages
Germanic languages
Altaic languages
Romance languages
Found on the border of France and Spain, this language is not related to any other languages in Europe
Macedonian
Catalán
Basque
Latin
Modern English was pulled from its Germanic roots when
William the Conqueror invaded and took control of England and introduced French to the region
England invaded Spain in 1066 and incorporated some Spanish vocabulary
The Scottish language started diffusing south into England in 1215
The Americans gained independence in 1776
The dominant language in the region highlighted is
Spanish
English
French
German
The largest universalizing religion is
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
World's first monotheistic religion
Jainism
Hinduism
Judaism
Shintoism
Most Muslims are
Shiite
Sunni
Sikhs
Kurdish
If a Muslim is physically and financially able, they are expected to travel to
Mecca
Palestine
Madrid
Israel
Social hierarchy system that has existed in India and has been a part of Hinduism for thousands of years
Dowry system
Caste system
Imperial system
Feudalism
The fighting in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, known as "The Troubles" can be considered an
Interfaith conflict
Intrafaith conflict
Has controlled the region of Tibet since 1951 and has had a contentious relationship with the Dalai Lama and his branch of Buddhism
Taiwan
China
Nepal
India
Several conflicts in Africa see
Muslims in the North fighting Christians in the South
Muslims and Jews fighting over holy land
Folk religions being forced out by Islam or Hinduism
Sikhs and Muslims fighting to control a territory
Example of an ethnicity
African American
Black
Asian
Caucasian
The ethnicity highlighted in the map above is
Asian Americans
African Americans
Hispanic Americans
Native Americans
Made segregation legal in the US under the "separate but equal" doctrine
Miranda vs. Arizona
Roe vs. Wade
Mendez vs. Westminster
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The highlighted section in Orange represents
Shiite Muslims who are mostly concentrated in Iran
The Kurdish ethnicity that is divided into several states
The Sunni Muslims who rule Turkey but extend into Iran and Iraq
Christian minorities who are persecuted in Iran and Turkey
Millions of Hindus and Muslims were displaced or killed when
Yugoslavia dissolved into separate states in the 1990s
Hindus attacked minority Muslim populations in Sri Lanka
Britain left India and created the Muslim state of Pakistan
Israel defeated Egypt in 1967
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