Culture and Identity Flashcards

1
Q

how does the UN define child marriage

A

anyone under the age of 18

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2
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list 3 problems of child marriage

A
  • ends education
  • ends childhood
  • isolation of girls away from their families
  • death from childbirth
  • powerless to refuse sex
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3
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how to end child marriage

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  • eradicate poverty and hunger
  • universal primary education
  • promote gender equality
  • reduce child mortality
  • improve maternal health
  • combat HIV, malaria, etc
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4
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6 US fixes to the problems in the sub saharan african article

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  1. economical participation
  2. political participation
  3. access to health care
  4. women in climate change
  5. combating violence
  6. combating child marriage
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5
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in Subsaharan Africa maternal deaths make up _____% of the world’s total

A

40

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6
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in Subsaharan Africa women do ___% of the farmwork

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70

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7
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what is culture?

A

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
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8
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what is folk culture

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static no change

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9
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what is popular culture

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  • diverse and heterogeneous
  • urban trends
  • media shared
  • global
  • dynamic
  • subject to time space compression
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10
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define local culture

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  • homogeneous

- rural (but not always)

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11
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what are the 4 things local culture needs to survive?

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  • language
  • religion
  • land
  • livlihood
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12
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what are the two goals of local culture?

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  • keep others out(easier in rural areas)

- keep cultural traits from diffusion

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13
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retteritorialization

A

single culture trait changed for your culture

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14
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glocalization

A

process big general

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15
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cultural appropriation

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

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16
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commoditication

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make money off of appropriation

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17
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nelocalism

A

recreate a local culture

-lacks authenticity and tries to make a profit

18
Q

appropriation is normally a _______________________

A

stereotype

19
Q

popular culture is s most often expanded by ________ diffusion

A

hierarchal

20
Q

pop culture creates ______?

A

placelessness

21
Q

what are three factors of placelessness?

A
  1. common architectural forms
  2. borrow an idealized landscape (ex.- Vegas)
  3. transnational businesses(McDonalds)
22
Q

what is identity?

A

how we or others define us

23
Q

what is ascribed identity

A

given, assigned, born with

24
Q

what is achieved identity

A
  • acquire
  • create
  • earn
25
Q

explain what identifying against is

A

things you say you are not

26
Q

what are examples of achieved identity

A
  • personality
  • career
  • scholar
  • athlete
  • musician
27
Q

what are possible ascribed identities

A
  • gender
  • sex
  • race
  • sexuality
28
Q

what are two unchanging ascribed identities?

A
  • ethnicity

- nationality

29
Q

identity changes at scale

A
  • local
  • state
  • regional
  • national
  • international
30
Q

define jumping scale

A

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

31
Q

redlining

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

32
Q

blockbusting

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

33
Q

informal economy

A

economic activities for which the person is not paid

34
Q

examples of an informal economy

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  • child care
  • cooking
  • laundry
35
Q

why are women seen as an economic burden?

A
  • 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
36
Q

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

A

true

37
Q

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

A

true

38
Q

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

A

true

39
Q

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

A

true

40
Q

why do honor killings occur in places like palestine?

A

because the women bring shame on their families