2.6 - Eroding the Culture Flashcards

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What is cultural dilution?

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  • powerful civilisations have bought cultural change to dozens of places for thousands of years - cultural diffusion
  • sometimes it is achieved using coercion, using legal or even military tools
  • languages, religions and customs were spread around the world using force by the British Empire
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What are some environmental impacts of cultural dilution?

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  • instead of low meat/high veg, it’s becoming more meat and fast food
  • more livestock which creates more methane, more imports of particular crops, deforestation for space to grow soya
  • continue to get worse as more people escape poverty and acquire land
  • social prestige is associated with certain delicacies - e.g. shark fin soup so number of slaughtered sharks goes up
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Does it matter if we lose culture?

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  • ‘hyperglobalsation’
  • we end up losing lots of local languages
  • might lose a sense of value for different ecosystems; economic growth becomes the primary goal and the social value of biosphere is lost
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