AMSCO Culture and Language
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- Q1According to the cultural complex described in the diagram above, auto ownership provides transportation but alsocomes about as a result of possession of a particular American trait, such as wealthrepresents one American cultural trait, depending on the values of the auto's ownerprovides greater likelihood that its owner will attain American values such as wealthrepresents a set of American cultural values, such as self-reliance and independence30s
- Q2Which of the following best demonstrates the concept of a cultural hearth?the places in the world where material and nonmaterial traits emergedthe middle East, where many cultures share the religion of IslamLatin America, which consists of several distinct but related culturesana area within a city where people share a common culture distinct from the surrounding culture30s
- Q3Which pattern is more typical of folk cultures than other types of culture?taking steps to transform rural areas into urban areaspromoting a high level of religious diversityestablishing flexible gender rolesemphasizing the value of tradition30s
- Q4The various cultural regions that compose the United States demonstrate howvarious cultural regions share some values and yet remain distincteach cultural region is composed of a variety of cultural realmscultural boundaries match political boundariescultural hearths spread their values through diffusion30s
- Q5The onion-domed churches in Moscow are most clearly examples of the city's culturallandscapeenclavesbarriersrealm30s
- Q6A family that immigrates from China to the United States and chooses to live in an wthnic enclave is probably hoping toexpose their children to people of many other culturesfind a buffer against discrimination while they seek new opportunitiesassimilate their family into American culture as soon as possiblefind more religious and language diversity than in most communities30s
- Q7Which information would be most useful to a geographer trying to identify the borders of cultural regions that each cover hundreds of square miles within a large country?the sights travelers see as they travel along the major highways across the countrythe locations of urban ethnic enclaves with businesses that cater primarily to one ethnic grouphow well the average person in the entire country is connected to Internet and other mediathe locations of major and minor airports across the country30s
- Q8One effect of the spread of popular culture through globalization is thatless developed countries have adopted stricter gender rolestraditional cultural values have spread to developed countriesseveral traits have become part of a worldwide culturecultural realms have become more diverse30s
- Q9One distinct feature of the Indo-European family is that itis the only languge family with just one major lingua francaincludes most of the world's oldest languageshas a smaller spatial distribution than other language familiesis spoken by nearly half the world's popultion30s
- Q10Some countries have several official languages because they want tomake government operate more efficientlyprepare students to participate in the global economygive recognition to different groups within the countrymake international diplomacy easier30s
- Q11Which statement best describes the most common reason groups want to preserve theor traditional languages?Language is central to cultural identity, so preserving a language helps preserve a cultureLanguage is used for trade, so preserving language is one way to keep a group economically prosperousLanguage change is a politically disruptive force, so preserving a language is one way to keep stabilityLanguage preservation passes on a group's history, so preserving a language is the only way to record history accurately30s
- Q12The Arabic language spread from its hearth and became one of the major global languages mainly throughworldwide colonization beginning around 600 CEspread of Middle Eastern multinational oil corporationsincreased use of communication technology in Arab nationsconquest and its use as a standard religious language30s
- Q13Which phrase does not help explain the language dustribution shown on the map?the differences between American and British Englishthe widespread use if the Internetthe ease if trade between Great Britain and the United StatesThe impact of British colonization in Africa and Asia30s
- Q14Which resulted from the mixing of two languages to create a new one so that people who spoke different languages could trade more easily?SwahiliAmerindianIndo-EuropeanArabic30s
- Q15Which is the best example of the diffusion of a language?the creation of a new language in Haitithe use of bilingual signs in a country with two official languagesthe decline in use of the Navajo languagethe spread of English via the Internet30s