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AP Human Geography

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Culture   Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people  
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Folk Culture   Small, homogenous population that is typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits that are passed down from generation to generation.  
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Popular Culture   Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today’s changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, global society.  
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Local culture   People who see themselves as a collective or a community, share experiences, customs, and traits, and work to preserve their traits and customs in a place.  
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Material culture   Physical aspects of culture, including art, tools, buildings, and clothing that are made by people.  
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Nonmaterial culture   Non physical aspects of culture, including beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values that are defined by people.  
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Hierarchical diffusion   Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion.  
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Hearth   Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates.  
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Customs   Common practice or routine way of doing things in a culture.  
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Assimilation   When a minority group loses distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture. Can happen voluntarily or by force.  
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Indigenous local cultures   People who see themselves as a community and also identify as indigenous, or original, to a place.  
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Context   The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act.  
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Neolocalism   Conscious effort to define a sense of place for local or regional culture. Often used by local businesses, such as microbreweries, to identify local products with local or regional culture.  
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Ethnic neighborhoods   Area within an urban area where a relatively large group of people from one ethnic group or local culture lives.  
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Gentrification   Renewal or rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle- to upper-class neighborhood, which results in driving up property values and rents and the dispossession of lower income residents.  
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Cultural appropriation   When one culture adopts customs and knowledge from another culture and uses them for its own benefit.  
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Commodification   Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.  
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Authenticity   The idea that one place or experience is the true, actual one.  
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Distance decay   Decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth.  
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Time-space compression   Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks.  
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Music festival   Concert event featuring multiple performers and additional entertainment that often lasts more than one day.  
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Hallyu (Hanryu)   South Korean waves of popular culture, especially in music, television, and movies.  
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Reterritorialization   When a local culture shapes an aspect of popular culture as their own, adopting the popular culture to their local culture.  
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Stimulus diffusion   A process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait.  
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Relocation diffusion   Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them.  
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Cultural landscape   The visible human imprint on the landscape.  
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Placelessness   Loss of uniqueness of a location so that one place looks like the next.  
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Convergence of cultural landscapes   Merging of cultural landscapes that happens with broad diffusion of landscape traits.  
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Urban morphology   The layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and the pathways of infrastructure.  
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