GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Papiamento, Jutes, Folklore
16 Jul 2020
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Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. Folk customs often have anonymous hearths, originating from anonymous sources, at unknown dates, through unidentified originators. Popular culture is most often a product of the economically more developed countries, especially in north america, western europe, and japan. Most of the world turns from folk to pop culture. Folk culture diffuses slowly to other locations through the process of migration. Popular culture diffuses rapidly across earth to locations with a variety of physical conditions. A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. Rapid diffusion depends on a group of people having a sufficiently high level of economic development to acquire the material possessions associated with popular culture. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
