CULTURE

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CULTURE

• A GROUP OF PEOPLES WAY OF LIFE

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Teacher page

• Content Geography
• Grade Level 7
• Creator R. Schultz
• Curriculum OBJ/MAP Standard/IBD See following
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Teacher Page

• Students will
• Discuss and practice the major elements of
  geographic study and analysis and their
  relationship to changes in society and
  environment.
• Study the relationships of the individual and
  groups to institutions and cultural traditions.
• Use the tools of social science inquiry
• Compare different regions of the world and
  understand major world issues

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INTRODUCTION

• B. Culture includes language, religious beliefs,
  clothing styles, eating habits and music.
• C. Through culture people have adapted to many
  physical environments around the world.
• D. The use of natural resources is directly
  related to the economy of a culture.

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Culture

• How do cultures around the world differ?
• How are they similar?

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CULTURAL ELEMENTS

• A. Enculturation is the process of learning a
  culture. We learn culture as members of society.
  This includes learning to speak and to know the
  values of your society.

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Cultural Elements

• B. Material culture physical objects such as
  clothing, buildings and art objects.

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Cultural Elements

• C. Nonmaterial culture language, customs,
  values mainly ideas.

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Culture

• Discuss the differences between material and
  non-material culture.

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Cultural elements..cont.

• Culture shock feeling uneasy in a culture
  different from your own.

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Culture Shock

• Write a short story in which the main character
  experiences culture shock.

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Present Day Cultures

• Result from thousands of years of change.
• Fire colder climates

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Present Day Cultures

• Tools sharp rocks (grinding, cutting, scraping)

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Present Day Cultures

• Agriculture (8000 BC) allowed for the growth of
  cities

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Present Day Cultures

• Cities people meet and exchange ideas
  cultural diffusion

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Present Day Cultures

• Writing 3000 BC China and SW Asia

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Culture

• Explain how culture has evolved.

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Cultural Differences and Similarities

• Prehistoric times simple cultures finding
  food

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Cultural Differences and Similarities

• Todays cultures complex
• Difference (1) technology term used to
  describe all the tools, machines and processes
  used to provide goods and services (2) in
  industrial countries technology is very complex

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Cultural Differences and Similarities

• Simple and Complex are Similar
• 1. everyone needs food, shelter, clothing

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Cultural Differences and Similarities

• 2. all assign power and responsibility to ensure
  order and survival

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Culture

• Compare and contrast simple and complex cultures.

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Major World Regions

• A. Anglo-America
• 1. Canada and United States
• 2. Culture comes primarily from Western Europe,
  especially Great Britain (England).
• 3. Anglo is a term that comes from the word
  Anglo-Saxon a group of people who settled in
  England around the 5th C BC.

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Regions .cont.

• B. Latin America
• 1. Mexico, countries of Central America,
  Caribbean Islands and South America

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Regions .cont.

• 2. Culture comes from the influence of Spain and
  Native Indians
• 3. Exception Brazil influenced by Portugal,
  Africa and Native Indians
• 4. Most of these countries are developing
• 5. Rule by dictators or military leaders common
• Major Religion - Catholic

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Regions .cont.

• C. Europe
• 1. over 30 independent countries
• 2. Includes Russia largest country on earth
• 3. Sub-regions eastern and western Europe

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Regions .cont.

• 4. Eastern Europe and Russia use to share the
  same form of govt. communism
• 5. Western Europe developed economies with
  high standard of living
• 6. Eastern Europe less developed with lower
  standard of living

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Regions .cont.

• D. North Africa and South West Asia
• 1. Stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan

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Regions .cont.

• Religion Islam is what helps make this a
  region
• Israel exception Jewish
• Another unifying factor Arabic language
• Developing countries for the most part - only a
  few exceptions

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Regions .cont.

• E. Sub-Saharan Africa
• 1. Countries that lie south of the Sahara Desert

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Regions .cont.

• Language several belonging to the Bantu family
  of languages
• Only through the 1900s did most of these
  countries gain their independence
• Most people live in rural areas and rely on
  farming thus developing countries

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Regions .cont.

• F. Asia
• Countries of east Asia trace their culture to
  China

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Regions .cont.

• 2.Japan developed or industrialized
• China the least developed
• 3. South Asia dominated by India. All countries
  here were once colonies of Great Britain and are
  for the most part developing.
• 4. Most south Asians are farmers and the two
  major religions are Hinduism and Islam
• 5. Southeast Asias culture is a mix of South
  Asia and East Asia.

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Regions .cont.

• G. Oceania
• 1. Cultures of Australia and New Zealand are
  related to Europe, especially Great Britain

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Regions .cont.

• 2. Both share the English language, the same
  kind of government and the same religion
• 3. Both have high standards of living
• 4. The rest of the Pacific Islands are grouped
  together because they are all islands of the
  Pacific area.

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Culture Regions

• Choose two regions in the world and compare and
  contrast their culture.

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Global Culture

• Refers to the spread of common elements of
  culture to many different areas of the world.
• Speed of communication and computers has helped
  this process
• Interdependence of countries in world trade has
  also helped
• Migration, or moving of people has also
  contributed
• Migration is another way in which the diffusion
  of ideas takes place

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Global Culture.cont.

• Most countries today have more than one culture
• Westernization has to do with the growth of
  power of countries in Western Europe beginning in
  the 16th Century

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Global Culturecont.

• Acculturation one culture being imposed upon
  another occurred as a result of western
  colonization
• Some aspects of the less powerful group will also
  be adopted
• The influence of western culture has continued
  throughout the 1900s

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Culture

• How do you think culture around the world will
  change as we become more and more a global
  society?