5.2.1 Global spectrum of cultural traits

Content

  • Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
    • How global interactions bring cultural influences and changes to places
  • Geographic knowledge and understanding
    • The global spectrum of cultural traits, ethnicities and identities, and ways in which the spectrum of diversity is widening or narrowing at different scales.
    • The effects of global interactions on cultural diversity in different places:
      • the diffusion of cultural traits, and cultural imperialism
  • Case study or detailed examples
    • Neither required by the syllabus
  • Aims of this lesson
    • To have knowledge and understanding of different cultural traits and how these traits combine to form identities and ethnicities.
    • To have knowledge and understanding of how the spectrum of diversity is widening or narrowing at different scales.
    • To have knowledge and understanding of the diffusion of cultural traits.
    • To have knowledge and understanding of cultural imperialism.

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