1. Do Now 9/14 Why do you think the Hamer peoples (of Ethiopia) do this?
Do Americans do anything similar?
Yes, he is running naked across the backs of cows

2. Thinking like someone who is not from the U. S
Thinking like someone who is not from the U.S., what is the weirdest thing we do culturally?

3. Intro to Culture & Intercultural Faux Pas
World Geography

4. What is culture?

5. What is culture?
features of a group of people’s way of life, passed down through generations by teachings, examples and imitation.

6. How do cultures develop?
Innovation: creation
Diffusion: spreading of ideas.

7. How does culture spread?
Silk Road
Columbian
Exchange
Migration
When people move, they take their clothing, food, religion, and language with them.

8. Cultural Hearths Culture Hearth:
Center of learning and innovation that diffuses to other regions

9. Assimilation joining or fitting in with a larger culture.
(German descendants in the USA.)

10. Acculturation
accepting a cultural element from another culture

12. Ethnocentrism: judging other cultures by the rules of your culture.

13. Xenophobia: fear of outsiders (limits diffusion)
“For more security.”

14. Elements of Culture
elements of culture
language
customs
religion
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