Cultural Landscapes and Patterns

Buildings, from homes to skyscrapers, reflect cultural values and practices, like building materials and styles.

Land use patterns are influenced by agricultural and urban customs and practices.

Local availability of food and cultural taboos affect what people eat.

Cultural traits influence how people view and act within a place.

Relativism means understanding a culture's logic, while ethnocentrism judges it based on one's own.

The cultural landscape includes the physical environment, economic activity (like farming), and various architectural styles.

Cultural identities (ethnicity, language, religion) are visibly expressed through elements like signs, places of worship, and buildings.

Attitudes, values, and power relationships influence how a cultural landscape is formed.

A common language used for communication and trade between groups who speak different native languages. It emerges when diverse groups need to understand each other.

Colonialism imposes new cultural patterns on both the colonizers and the colonized, leading to lasting cultural changes even after decolonization.

Globalization spreads some cultural traits while diminishing others, often threatening local and indigenous cultures more than popular ones.

Communication technologies like the internet make the world feel smaller and more connected, reducing the distance and time between places.

Efforts to protect endangered languages from extinction through education, documentation, and community support.

A place where cultural traits and systems originate and are strongly associated with specific regions.

The spread of cultural traits and systems from a central location to neighboring regions.

Place names that reflect cultural patterns and influences on the landscape.

The visible imprint of human activity on the land, including architecture, land use, and symbols. It reveals a society's values, beliefs, and cultural tensions.

A distinct feeling or character associated with a specific location, shaped by its cultural, historical, and environmental features.

A factor that unifies a society or group, such as common beliefs, language, or cultural practices.

A factor that divides a society or group, such as differing beliefs, languages, or ethnic conflicts.

The spread of a cultural trait through the movement of people from one location to another.

The spread of a cultural trait from a source of power to other areas, often through a hierarchy of influential individuals or organizations.

The spread of a cultural trait through person-to-person contact, like a contagious disease.