1. AIM: How does culture influence peoples’ lives?
Do now: Identify one thing that represents your culture.
Example: American culture - baseball
HW – Pick five artifacts in your home, describe the item, and describe why it is important to your culture?

2. *NOTES*
WHAT IS CULTURE?????
The unique way in which a group of people live
(2) Generally refers to the patterns of human activity
(3) "The total, generally organized way of life, including values, norms, institutions, and artifacts, that is passed on from generation to generation by learning alone"

3. Facial expressions Religious beliefs Foods Eating habits Paintings
WHY IS CULTURE SOMETIMES COMPARED TO AN ICEBERG?
Facial expressions
Religious beliefs
Foods
Eating habits
Paintings
Concept of self
Work ethic
Styles of dress
Literature
Concept of fairness
Childraising beliefs
YOU CAN SEE
YOU CAN’T SEE

5. Whose culture is being identified in the following images???:
writing
Architecture/ religion
Art
Art/mythology
clothing
food
What elements of culture do we see in these images?

6. Whose culture is identified in these images?
TAPAS/ FOOD
DANCE/ CLOTHING
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
SPORTS/ GAMES

7. *NOTES*
Cultural diffusion- the exchanging of ideas from one culture to another usually done through trade and warfare
Example: baseball in Japan
Cultural Assimilation- taking elements of one’s culture and making it your own (absorbing into a new culture)

8. 1. How does my culture shape me?
SUMMARY: ANSWER #1-3 ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER. (TO BE COLLECTED!!!!!!!!!)
Everyone has a culture. It shapes how we see the world, ourselves, and others.
1. How does my culture shape me?
2. How does culture shape the way we see ourselves, others, and the world?
3. Why is it important to understand culture?

9. MATCH THE FOLLOWING.
1. Geographer a. studies the past by
examining artifacts and
ancient ruins
2. Political Scientist b. studies the world’s
landscapes and climate
3. Archaeologist c. studies the operations
of different forms of
governments
4. Economist d. studies the past by
examining primary and
secondary sources
5. Historian
e. studies how goods and
services are distributed in
societies
6. Anthropologist f. studies culture and how
people interact with society