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Cultural Identity

Cultural Identity. Language / Social Characteristics Religion / Belief Systems / Politics Also includes many other aspects: Art and Architecture Economics / Money Transportation Food and clothing, etc. CULTURE. Culture is not just about dances, food and dress.

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Cultural Identity

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  1. Cultural Identity • Language / Social Characteristics • Religion / Belief Systems / Politics • Also includes many other aspects: • Art and Architecture • Economics / Money • Transportation • Food and clothing, etc.

  2. CULTURE Culture is not just about dances, food and dress. Culture is a shared set of values and meanings practiced in everyday life Let’s look at the geography of culture…

  3. CULTURAL IDENTITIES Religion Ethnicity Language Music Style of Dress Race Region Food Histories And more…

  4. LANGUAGE Means of communication and identity Spoken, written, manual

  5. 6,909* Living Languages! Where languages are • Thousands of tribal languages across globe • Many small languages endangered • Some languages forbidden in past (colonial rulers) • Native African • Native American • Yiddish • Some languages protected • Gaelic • Native American • French? 737 in Indonesia! (18,000+ islands) * http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/languages.htm

  6. How many people speak which languages? Ethnologue: Languages of the World - 2005

  7. Language Family • Ancient common origin, split into: • Language branches • Languages • Regional dialects / accents

  8. Major world language families Indo-European Austronesian Ural-Altaic Sino-Tibetan Niger-Congo Japanese Afro-Asiatic Dravidian …and the rest

  9. Ural-

  10. Indo-European language family branches Multiple tongues: Baltic Celtic Germanic Indo-Iranian Italic (Romantic) Slavic Unique: Albanian Armenian Greek

  11. Indo-European Language Branches

  12. NOT Indo-European languages * Finno-Ugric language family Suomi (Finland)* Estonian (Estonia)* Magyar (Hungary)* Euzkadi (Basque Country) • Isolated • Well-defensed • Survived centuries of • invasions and colonization

  13. Romantic Branch of Indo-European Language Family • Rome

  14. Germanic Branch of Indo-European Language Family

  15. COW Catalan Vaca French: Vache Italian: Vacca Portuguese: Vaca Romanian: Vacă Spanish: Vaca VERY GOOD Catalan: Molt Bo French: Tres Bien Italian: Molto Bene Portuguese: MuitoBem Romanian: Merge Bine Spanish: Muy Bien Romance Languages: Mutually Intelligible?

  16. nacht Nacht natt Indo-European Language Tree night noche nuit nótt nox noite noapte ночь (noch') νύκτα (nykta) noc natë Estonian: öö Euzkadi: gau Magyar: éj Suomi: yö naktis raath

  17. Lingua Franca A language used informally for communication in a multiethnic place Often a former colonial language

  18. What is the OFFICIAL Language of the U.S.? Official Languages

  19. U.S. should be YELLOW!! **English is the Lingua Franca of the United States**

  20. What is English, anyway? • Bizarre • Avocado • Hurricane • Petunia • Assassin • Barbecue • Chipmunk • Ammonia • Banjo • Tundra WHAT DO ALL THESE WORDS HAVE IN COMMON?

  21. What is English, anyway? Bizarre (Euzkadi, for beard “bizar”) Avocado (Nahuatl [Aztec] for “testicle”) Hurricane (Taíno, a Caribbean language) Petunia (Tupi, Peruvian Indian) Assassin (Arabic, from hashish smokers) Barbecue (Carib, a Caribbean language) Chipmunk (Ojibwe, Native American) Ammonia (Ancient Egyptian for camel dung) Banjo (Kimbundu, Northern Angola) Tundra (Saami, formerly called Lapp) Kumquat (Chinese, “gold orange”) English: A “melting pot” in itself!

  22. Eau Claire Prairie du Chien Neenah-Menasha Chetek Trempealeau Oshkosh Kewaunee Wisconsin Place Names:also from many sources • Clear Water • Prairie of the Dog • Island-Island • Pelican • Water Soaked • Toenail • Prairie Chicken

  23. DIALECT and ACCENT (regional variations within a language)

  24. “Wess-KAHN-sin” “Wisk-AHN-sin” “Wis-KAHN-sin”

  25. “Mi-nuh-SOH-tuh” “Mi-neh-SOH-tah” “Mi-neh-SOOOOOO-tah”

  26. 1. What are these?

  27. 2. What is this?

  28. 3. What is in these cans?

  29. Is it Soda, Pop or Coke? Or something else?

  30. 4. Finish this sentence: Duck, Duck, _____________ http://www.joespc.com/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

  31. Cultural Region • Areas in which a particular cultural system prevails • Dominant cultural practices, beliefs, values

  32. Acculturation vs. Assimilation • Absorbing of minority culture into majority culture, often through pressure • Loss of culture can degrade minority, create uneven playing field • Involuntary • Adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture • Process of melding new ideas into an existing cognitive culture • Voluntary

  33. Religious Landscapes Orthodox Church Mormon Temple New Synagogue Blue Mosque Borobudur Buddhist Temple Barsana Dham Hindu Temple St. Peter’s Cathedral

  34. WORLD RELIGIONS

  35. But what is a “religion?” From Dictionary.com: • Which religions are “legitimate?” • What criteria are used: Time? Followers? • And by whose standards / definition? • If you believe it, it’s real! (at least to you)

  36. Vodoun (Santería)10,000+ years old

  37. Voodoo curse used to threaten wife Palm Beach Post Wednesday, March 05, 2008 PORT ST. LUCIE, FL — Police jailed a 34-year-old man accused of punching his wife and threatening to kill her, her children and her family with a gun and a Voodoo curse, records show. NerletBellot's wife told police she is a "strong believer" in Voodoo and her husband is "more than capable" of casting a Voodoo curse, an arrest report said. The woman, who is Haitian like her husband, said she was "terrified of that notion and it's consequences.“ The woman, who recently moved from Haiti where her husband also has family, told police that threat scared her more than any of the others. Bellot was arrested Monday on charges of domestic battery, domestic assault, hindering communication with a law enforcement officer.

  38. Even in the Midwest! March 08, 2006 Headless Chicken Not So Lucky Chicago drivers need all the luck they can get. So it's understandable that when Jose A. Cruz, 25, set out to drive from Elmhurst, Ill. to his home in Sweetwater, Fla., he tried to bring along some good luck. Only instead of rubbing a rabbit's foot, he beheaded a live chicken and tossed its still-flapping body out of his car window. Unluckily, an Elmhurst cop watched him do it. Cruz was arrested, but not for killing the chicken. Apparently, decapitation is a humane way to kill a bird and, thus, not a crime. Instead, he was charged with littering. According to police, Cruz practices Santeria and killed the bird as part of a ritual sacrifice. Chicago has a growing population of Santeria followers, including White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. The Sox skipper identifies himself as a Roman Catholic, but he is also a babalowa, a leader in the Santeria faith.

  39. World Religions…today

  40. Diffusion of Christianity in the Roman Empire

  41. First Schism: Western (Catholic) vs. Eastern (Orthodox)

  42. Second Schism: Catholic vs. Protestant

  43. Christianity in Europe Today

  44. Christianity in the U.S. Today

  45. Religions in the U.S. Today Protestant Christians 100 mil.+ Muslims 4 mil. Jews 6 mil. Orthodox Christians 6 mil. Catholic Christians 60 mil.+

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