2.4 Cultural regions

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2.4 Cultural regions

Page 38 and 39 of the textbook.

1. Check learning goals last week (5 min.)
   
2. Instruction 2.4 (10 min.)
3. Work on practical assignment (20 min.)

Learning goals of last week

• You know how you can describe a culture with three types of cultural elements.
  
  • You understand why cultures diffused and blended in the past and present.

Culture

What is culture?

Culture is the way a group of people live together. Culture is taught.

The most important cultural characteristics are:

• language and religion
• laws, family ties and upbringing
• clothing, food, buildings and art

Cultural diffusion

Cultural diffusion took place due to countries conquering other lands > colonisation.

Besides colonisation there are other ways of cultural diffusion. Which?

• trade
• war

Cultural blending

Cultural elements mix in three ways. Via:

1. mass media
2. migration
3. tourism

The strongest culture that has been mixed into others comes from the USA > Americanisation.

Homework check

Are you alsmost finished with the assignment?

Learning goals of today

• You know where the six main cultural regions are located and what their main cultural elements are.
• You understand why specific cultural elements occur in a different cultural region.
• You can point out countries in the cultural regions.
  

Cultural region: An area where cultures exist that strongly resemble each other when you look at the language and religion.

East, South and Southeast Asia

More than half of the world's population lives here.

Characteristics:

• Food: rice (rice culture)
• Major cultural differences > many languages and scripts

• Religion in India = hinduism
• Religion in China and Southeast Asia = Buddhism

Islamic world

Religion: Islam

Characteristics:

• wearing of headscarves
• praying five times a day
• mosques
• no pork eaten
• no alcohol drunk
• Koran is important
• Ramadan is month of fasting
• Arabic (except in Indonesia)

Western world

Western Europe + North America + Australia

Characteristics:

• English language
  
  • freedom of speech
  • Christian background, however many people have no religion
  • science is important
  • rapid changes in society
  
  

Latin America

Characteristics:

• Language: Spanish and Portugese (colonial past)
  
• Religion = Catholic

In Latin America you can find many African influences. Why is this?
Due to the decendants of Africans who were once transported as slaves to this continent > therefore African cultural influences such as voodoo and Samba dancing.

Sub-Saharan Africa

People often live in tribes here. Each tribe has its own language and customs. Multiple tribes living in one country - how did this happen?
Colonial rulers drew boundaries.

• Languages: native African language,
• French and English.
• Religions = Christianity, Islam, traditional African religion

Russia and former Soviet Union

Characteristics:

• Slavic language
• separate script
• previously communistic
• Eastern-Orthodox Christianity
• rich in art and culture
• limited freedom of speech

Practical assignment

Finish the assignment.

BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Check the rubric. Try to grade your own assignment according to the rubric. Are you missing things? Add these and get yourself a good grade.

Done? Make the assignments of Support World on page 46 and 47 of the workbook.

Next week

Recap of 2.1 - 2.4