Unit 3b - Religion and Ethnicity

Unit 3b Culture (Religion, Ethnicity): While some human attributes, such as hair color, are heavily influenced by biological inheritance, most are not. In general, how people think and act is shaped, formally and informally, by what they learn from other people. All of the practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors that people learn from others are part of one's ethnicity. Areas where many people share an element of culture--such as practicing a specific religion --form cultural regions. Geographers use maps, from small to large scale--to show the boundaries of these regions. When people of different cultures meet, they sometimes have conflicts, but they always adjust to each other. For example, if they practice different religions, one group convert to the other’s religion, or people might blend the two religions to create a new one. Improvements in transportation and communication have increased the interaction of cultures throughout history. Culture spreads as people move from one place to another and as people interact and learn from each other. (126 Slides and videos)