Culture and Identity

Question 1

how does the UN define child marriage

Answer 1

anyone under the age of 18

Question 2

list 3 problems of child marriage

Answer 2

• ends education
• ends childhood
• isolation of girls away from their families
• death from childbirth
• powerless to refuse sex

Question 3

how to end child marriage

Answer 3

• eradicate poverty and hunger
• universal primary education
• promote gender equality
• reduce child mortality
• improve maternal health
• combat HIV, malaria, etc

Question 4

6 US fixes to the problems in the sub saharan african article

Answer 4

1. economical participation
2. political participation
3. access to health care
4. women in climate change
5. combating violence
6. combating child marriage

Question 5

in Subsaharan Africa maternal deaths make up _____% of the world’s total

Answer 5

40

Question 6

in Subsaharan Africa women do ___% of the farmwork

Answer 6

70

Question 7

what is culture?

Answer 7

beliefs, norms, values, traditions, lifestyle,etc

• can be practiced by a group of people
• can be self defined or others can defined
• includes material and nonmaterial things

Question 8

what is folk culture

Answer 8

static no change

Question 9

what is popular culture

Answer 9

• diverse and heterogeneous
• urban trends
• media shared
• global
• dynamic
• subject to time space compression

Question 10

define local culture

Answer 10

• homogeneous

- rural (but not always)

Question 11

what are the 4 things local culture needs to survive?

Answer 11

• language
• religion
• land
• livlihood

Question 12

what are the two goals of local culture?

Answer 12

• keep others out(easier in rural areas)

- keep cultural traits from diffusion

Question 13

retteritorialization

Answer 13

single culture trait changed for your culture

Question 14

glocalization

Answer 14

process big general

Question 15

cultural appropriation

Answer 15

take a trait out of a culture and it loses its authenticity

Question 16

commoditication

Answer 16

make money off of appropriation

Question 17

nelocalism

Answer 17

recreate a local culture

-lacks authenticity and tries to make a profit

Question 18

appropriation is normally a _______________________

Answer 18

stereotype

Question 19

popular culture is s most often expanded by ________ diffusion

Answer 19

hierarchal

Question 20

pop culture creates ______?

Answer 20

placelessness

Question 21

what are three factors of placelessness?

Answer 21

1. common architectural forms
2. borrow an idealized landscape (ex.- Vegas)
3. transnational businesses(McDonalds)

Question 22

what is identity?

Answer 22

how we or others define us

Question 23

what is ascribed identity

Answer 23

given, assigned, born with

Question 24

what is achieved identity

Answer 24

• acquire
• create
• earn

Question 25

explain what identifying against is

Answer 25

things you say you are not

Question 26

what are examples of achieved identity

Answer 26

- personality - career - scholar - athlete - musician

Question 27

what are possible ascribed identities

Answer 27

- gender - sex - race - sexuality

Question 28

what are two unchanging ascribed identities?

Answer 28

- ethnicity | - nationality

Question 29

identity changes at scale

Answer 29

- local - state - regional - national - international

Question 30

define jumping scale

Answer 30

when your identity is so special that it jumps to the next level on the identity scale

Question 31

redlining

Answer 31

process where banks drew lines on a map and refused to give out loans in that area

Question 32

blockbusting

Answer 32

if a minority moved in a neighborhood banks would create a panic and get everyone to move away

Question 33

informal economy

Answer 33

economic activities for which the person is not paid

Question 34

examples of an informal economy

Answer 34

- child care - cooking - laundry

Question 35

why are women seen as an economic burden?

Answer 35

- raise her until she's 15 just to marry her off, then she takes care of her in laws and not her own parents(no social security) - dowry

Question 36

true or false: a woman in south Africa has a greater chance of being raped than she does learning how to read

Answer 36

true

Question 37

70% of women in Niger report being beaten or raped by their husband father or brother

Answer 37

true

Question 38

75% of women report having been beaten or raped by a family member

Answer 38

true

Question 39

about 200,000 unsafe abortions take place per year in southern africa and almost 80,000 die from the unsafe procedures

Answer 39

true

Question 40

why do honor killings occur in places like palestine?

Answer 40

because the women bring shame on their families