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Who is Carl Sauer?

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A famous 20th century geographer who asserted that wherever a human culture exists, a cultural landscape exists as that culture’s unique “fingerprint” on their space on the Earth

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What is a culture trait?

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A single attribute of a culture (ex: bowing to show respect)

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What is a culture complex?

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The combination of all culture traits creates a unique set of traits called a culture complex

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What is a culture system?

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When many culture complexes share particular traits, those complexes can merge to form a culture system

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What is a culture region?

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A region that’s drawn around places and people with similarities in their culture systems

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How is a culture/ geographic realm formed?

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It’s formed through the fusing together of culture regions that share enough in common to be merged together

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What is stimulus expansion diffusion?

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When the innovative idea diffuses from its hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters (ex: iced tea diffused to the south, southerners added sugar)

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What is migrant diffusion?

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When the innovation spreads and lasts only a brief time in the newly adopting place

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What is an independent innovation?

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When similar or the same innovation is made in 2 or more different hearths without any interaction

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What transculturation?

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When 2 cultures of equal power/ influence meet and exchange ideas/ traits without the domination seen in acculturation and assimilation

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What is a barrio?

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A spanish-speaking ethnic enclave

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What is social distance?

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The measurement of how distant two ethnicities are from each other (not spatially)

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What is the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide?

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Ethnic cleansing is a process in which a racial/ ethnic group tries to make another racial/ ethnic group leave a land area, genocide is the killing of a racial/ethnic group by another racial/ethnic group

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What’s an example of genocide?

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Yugoslavia’s leader led a genocide campaign against Albanians in Kosovo, Serbia

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What is cultural imperialism?

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The invasion of the culture into another with the intent of dominating the invaded culture politically, economically, and/ or socially

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What is cultural nationalism?

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The resistance by a group of people against cultural imperialism and cultural convergence. For example, nationalists who believe McDonald’s is a symbol of American cultural imperialism have attacked McDonald’s restaurants in regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa

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What is maldaptive diffusion?

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The adoption of a diffusing trait that is impractical for a region or culture. For example wearing blue jeans is a popular culture trait that has diffused across the world, but it isn’t practical for warmer regions