1. Cultural Geography

2. What is Culture? Culture is all features of a people’s way of life.
Learned and passed down from parents to children
Important parts of culture:
Language, religion, architecture, clothing, economics, family life, food, and government

3. Culture Traits
Activities and behaviors that people often take part in.
Culture traits can be the same or linked
Many different types of culture traits
Government, education, religion, language, food, economy, housing, clothing

4. Culture Regions
This is an area in which people have shared culture traits.
Countries can have many different culture regions, or they can have just one
Ethnic groups help to make culture regions
Human population that shares a common culture or ancestry

5. Culture Change
Acculturation: when an individual or group adopts some traits of another culture
Innovation: new ideas that a culture accepts
Diffusion: when an idea or innovation spreads from one person our group and is adopted by another.

6. Globalization
This is the process in which connections around the world increase and cultures become more alike.

7. Traditionalism
This is when a longtime practice is followed and modern technologies and ideas are opposed.
Opposite of Globalization
Fundamentalism: people believe in strictly following established principles or teachings.
Old way of doing things should not be changed