The customary behaviors associated with a culture’s food preparation and consumption
Foodways
Intangible elements of culture including a wide range of beliefs, values, myths, and symbolic meanings passed from generation to generation within a given society
Nonmaterial culture
A local culture that is no longer the dominant ethnic group within its traditional homeland because of migration, colonization, or political marginalization
Indigenous
A mutually agreed upon system of symbolic communication
Language
A person who is fluent in more than two languages
Polyglot
The agency responsible for collecting and producing data about the American people and the economy. Collects data every 10 years and started in 1790
U.S. Census Bureau
What does race refer to?
Historically defined by the physical characteristics of a group, especially skin color
A structured set of beliefs and practices through which people seek mental and physical harmony with the powers of the universe
Religion
The feeling resulting from the standardization of the built environment; occurs where local distinctiveness is erased and many places end up with similar cultural landscapes
Placelessness
The built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting the Earth—farm fields, cities, houses, and so on—and the meaning, values, representations, and experiences associated with those forms
Cultural landscape
What was the hearth of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity?
Jerusalem
How many empires controlled Jerusalem through sequent occupance?
More than 2 dozen; includes the Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Ottomans
A regional variation of a language that is understood by people who speak other variations of that language
Dialect
Discrimination of a certain group because of physical appearance, especially skin color
Racism
Efforts to use and design public places to better serve the needs of residents and to foster a stronger community
Placemaking
A force that threatens the cohesion of a neighborhood, society, or a country
Centrifugal force
A force that brings people together and unifies a neighborhood, society, or county
Centripetal force
True or false: Religion, ethnicity, and language can be both a centripetal and centrifugal force
True
Occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, thereby bringing the idea or practice to their new homeland
Relocation diffusion
Barriers that slow diffusion, but still allow some partial or weakened diffusion
Permeable barriers
Barriers that completely halt diffusion
Absorbing barriers
A trade language characterized by a very small vocabulary derived from the languages of at least two or more groups in contact
Pidgin
What is the language of the internet?
English
The systematic killing of members of a racial, ethnic, or linguistic group
Genocide
