Culture Chapter 4 Summary

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Chapter 4 Summary This first thing I learned about in this chapter was culture. Culture is the knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes of a specific group of people. It includes how people live their daily lives, what makes people similar or different, and gives people their identity. Example of culture are language, religion, education, healthcare, art, family life, clothing, food, and shelter. An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common language, history, customs, and heritage, but don’t live in the same place; while a society is a group of people who live in the same area and share a sense of identity or heritage. A cultural hearth refers to the early centers of the first civilization whose ideas spread to surrounding areas. …show more content…

It can also be making something better that already exists, such as making new iPhones. Cultural diffusion is the spread of ideas, atitudes, inventions, behaviors, or beliefs from one place to another, and this is how we eat Chinese food in America. Acculturation is how a society changes because it accepts an innovation, and abandons old cultural traits to assume a new cultural identity. An example of this is that some people stop wearing traditional garments to wear blue jeans. Some important aspects of culture include language, arts, healthcare, education, religion, family life, and leisure. Language allows people to communicate, but can bring both unity and conflict. Art includes performing arts, such as music, dance, theatre, and film; visual arts, such as architecture, painting, sculpture, and textile; and literature, such as poems, folk tales, novels, and stories. Healthcare and education go hand and hand because if one place has a high education rate, it has a higher life expectancy because the country has enough money to make those things a priority. Religion varys greatly all over the world, and there is much conflict around the world because of it. Religion makes people’s daily lives different

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