World Cultures Final Exam Terms
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World Cultures Final Exam Terms
Intro to the World
Cultural Conflict Ð- clash of different ways of life over scarce resources, religion, race, land, oil, water, power, etcÐ
Cultural Relativism Ð- judge culture on their own standards and values
Culturally different Ð- one culture different from every other culture
Culture Ð- total way of life of someone
Diffusion Ð- mixing of different cultures from place to place
Ethnocentrism Ð- belief that ones own culture is superior to others: judge others by your own standards
Globalization Ð- process by which countries become increasingly interconnected
International Date Line Ð- line that is used by geographers that divides the world into two days
Interdependence Ð- mutual dependence of countries
Kalahari Bushmen Ð- natives of Africa who tried to keep their distance from the world and traditions became corrupt with a simple coke bottle
L.A.S.S. Ð- learned adaptive symbolic shared: this is the way cultures would be able to mix
Norms Ð- expectations of behavior
Prime Meridian – 0Ðo longitude on a globe, located in Greenwich, England
Relative location Ð- natural occurring physical features used to describe a location on the map if not given the exact location
Socialization Ð- taught about a culture either or their own or anothers
Standard of living Ð- depends on the effort you put into how you want to live
Symbols Ð- represent a certain topic, feeling, idea etcÐ
Time zones Ð- divides up the globe depending on the number of hours they are away from Greenwich
Equator Ð- Along the x-axis, or meaning Latitude
Universally Similar Ð- meaning that every culture has similar foods, religions, clothes, language, housing, music, sports, and gestures
Values Ð- beliefs about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable
North America
Animism Ð- belief that everything has a spirit no matter if it is living or if it is not
Black Hills Ð- mountains located in South Dakota that was being taken away from the Indians because of the gold found in them by trespassers
Buffalo Ð- an animal that was used by many Indians for food, for shelter
Counting Coup Ð- strategy done by the Indians where they would be given points for how many times they would strike their opponents and this was the mens way of gaining glory in their tribes
Cradleboards Ð- baby carriers that were placed on the back of women and also was used to constrain children when the mother was unable to hold the child
Crazy Horse Ð- one of many great Indian leaders who was responsible for not selling out his people until his cause was having a price on his people and who was viciously stabbed in his back for his crime of murdering whites
Cultural genocide Ð- the deliberate destruction of an entire cultural either by assimilation or mass murdering of the people
George Custer Ð- gave the Indians the ultimatum that either they be on the reservations by January 31, 1876 or if not then they have declared war on the settlers (knowing fully well that they could not meet this demand)
Ghost Dance Ð- dance seen as rebellion by the white man who outlawed it because of the notion that the Indians would try to rise up against them
Great Plains Ð- inhabited by the Indians first where millions of buffalo once roamed and grazed and the Indians lived happily
Horse Ð- the Indians at first believed it to be a mysterious dog but it soon came to revolutionize the great plains cultures: known as sunka wakan
John Dunbar Ð- a U.S soldier who came to turn on the army to live with the Lakota tribe and learn that the white man are the barbarians and become a Lakota himself and even marry one of them: in the end he does what he can to save his people
Lakota Ð- a tribe of Indians which means alliance of