Geography
Pop Culture
Folk Culture
Folk material culture diffuses slowly through process of migration
- Folk clothing preferences
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Style of clothing worn in response to distinctive argricultural practices and climate conditions
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>> folk custom in the Netherlands to wear wooden shoes because of practical uses in wet climates
Popular material culture spreads quicker due to technolgy
-Popular clothing preferences
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style of clothing generally reflects occupation and income rather than particular environment
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>> Business suits worn by professionals
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rapid diffusion of popular clothing styles
- improved communitcations central to rapid diffusion
Popular food preferences
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difference amoung countries
- coke cola preferences can be influenced by politics
>> sovient union : pepsi permitted for sale in country
>> russia: many former sovients switched to coke because pepsi was associated with communism
Regional differences within the US
- Americans may choose beverages or snacks based on what is groduced, grown.
FOlk food preferences
-Food Taboos
>>Many folk customs attribute a signature, or distinctive characteristic, to everything in nature.
People may desire or avoid certain foods, as a result of perceived beneficial or harmful natural traits.
>>A restriction imposed by a social custom to eat particular plants or animals that are believed to embody negative forces is a taboo.
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Many folk customs attribute a signature, or distinctive characteristic, to everything in nature.
>>Popular foods and beverages display regional variation depending on what can be locally produced and other cultural influences. Wine serves as a global example, as it is globally popular but not as common in areas which cannot support grapes or where a large part of the population does not consume alcohol.
Orgin, Distribution, and Diffusion of TV and Internet
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Diffusion of tv started around the mid- 20th century. It started spreading slowly
—orginated simultaneously in multiple hearths in the early twentieth century— e.g., UK, France, Germany, Japan, Soviet Union, and the United States
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Electroic Diffusion of popular culture
The diffusion of Internet began in the late 20th.
1995 - Internet users in the United States accounted for more than half of the global users.
• around 2011, 77 % of the United states population used the internet
Some examples are
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In 2008 the people who used facebook in the U.S consisted one-third of all global users
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In 2010, the United States was source of one-third of all tweets
Why do Folk and Popular Culture face sustainability problems?
With popular culture taking over each year its getting harder for folk culture. They face a lot of things with all this technolgy and trend.
Popular Culture Affecting Folk Culture
The increased connection with popular culture makes maintaining centuries-old practices really hard. Also the Impacts of globalization on the landscape creates challenges in maintaining a unique landscape. Global diffusion of popular culture beliefs has challenged the subservience of women tomen that is embedded in some folk customs.
Summarizing the 2 principles ways that pop culture can adversly affect the environment
Popular culture can affect the enviornment by polluting it. Like both folk and pop culture can cause environmental damage, mostly when all natural process are ignored . For example in Central America the practices of folk culture have very high rates of soil erosion and have been documented
