* Challenge: One uniquely and complete American Cultural Practice or Tradition

* You received a slip of paper as you walked in. It is either a vocabulary word or a definition. * Look at it. * Now find your “match”. ( You may use a textbook, but remember they all must be back on the cart before anyone leaves.)

* Culture involves the following factors: * Food/ shelter * Religion * Relationships to family and others * Language * Education * Security/protection * Political and social organization * Creative expression * What reasons might explain why there are so many different cultures in the United States?

* The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people.

This is a common practice in almost the whole of Asia, from modern Japan to Southern India, regardless of what sort of home you go to – a luxurious bungalow or a shack in the slums. Asians remove their shoes at home, to keep the floor clean and as a form of courtesy. They also feel more comfortable without shoes and socks, especially being in the comfort of their own home.

* A repetitive act performed by an individual

* What is the difference between a habit and a custom?

* Taking existing technology and resources & creating something new to meet a need.

* What if a society stopped having innovations?

* The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior.

Examples: TV, internet, rock music, religion

* When a society accepts or adopts an innovation.

* When a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation. * Examples: wearing jeans instead of traditional garments or dancing to rock music in another country.

* Folk culture (traditional) refers to a culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

* Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena that are preferred by the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture. Pop culture is typical of large heterogeneous groups.ideas perspectivesattitudesimagesphenomenamainstreamcultureWestern culture

* Diffusion of popular housing, clothing, & food * Popular housing styles * Rapid diffusion of clothing styles * Popular food customs * Television and diffusion of popular culture * Diffusion of television * Diffusion of the internet * Government control of television

U.S. fast-food chains have diffused to other countries, including China. Corporate logos enable customers to instantly identify the establishment regardless of whether they know the language.

South Bronx, considered the birthplace of hip hop. Hip Hop is an American musical genre in which rhythmic and rhyming speech is chanted to musical accompaniment.Americanmusical genrechanted

Fig. 5-1: English is an official language in 50 countries, including some in which it is not the most widely spoken language. It is also used and understood in many others.

Fig. 5-8: The Romance branch includes three of the world’s 12 most widely spoken languages (Spanish, French, and Portuguese), as well as a number of smaller languages and dialects.

* A taboo is a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

Fig. 4-6: Annual hog production is influenced by religious taboos against pork consumption in Islam and other religions. The highest production is in China, which is largely Buddhist.

Fig. 4-12: Per capita consumption of Canadian whiskey (left) and tequila (right) show different source areas and histories of diffusion.

Fig. 4-14: Television has diffused widely since the 1950s, but some areas still have low numbers of TVs per population.

Fig. 4-15: Internet users per 1000 population. Diffusion of internet service is following the pattern of TV diffusion in the 20th century, but at a much faster rate. Liz Lewis: Liz Lewis:

* Threats to folk culture * Loss of traditional values * Foreign media dominance * Environmental impacts of popular culture * Modifying nature * Uniform landscapes * Negative environmental impact

* Choose either an element of culture, innovation, diffusion, or acculturation and relate it to one of the five themes of geography and write this on your “Exit Ticket”. Turn in by the end of the period.

* Regular Geo: Pick example of an elements of culture, written 1-3 sentences defining it and provide a visual, it may be drawn or printed out. Pre AP pick two. This will be due TOMORROW at the beginning of class.