GEOG 155 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eiffel Tower, Ethnic Religion, Fertile Crescent
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How people define themselves as a group. Local culture: usually found in small areas, maintain/preserve their ways by: Community celebrations family structures lack of interaction with other cultures: can influence other places with material & nonmaterial culture, sustain their culture through: retaining customs. Avoid culture appropriation: rural local cultures: Local cultures can easily maintain their ways in rural areas. Live in communally colonies of about 100 people. Live in northern great plains: urban local cultures: Ex: china town: often experience commodification. Group/population: typically begin with an idea then spreads, influence of popular culture: Ex: surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, ultimate fighting replaced with football, basketball, & baseball. Examples of convergence of cultural landscapes: diffusion of skyscrapers in a city, distribution of business & products, borrowing idealized landscape images (eiffel tower in las vegas) Identities are built through: experiences, emotions, connections, rejections. Biologically differences are simply different combinations of physical attributes in the.
