Popular+Culture+vs.+Folk+Culture



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__Local Culture-__  people in a particular place who see themselves as a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others. Basically local culture is a group or community of people who have the same experiences, customs and traits and they try to preserve their traits and customs so they can be different. __Examples:__  Little Sweden, U.S.A The Makah American Indians

__Sustained:__ Custom and tradition Avoiding assimilation and cultural appropriation

__Folk Culture-c__ ultural traits (EX: clothes, dwellings, traditions and intuitions) of usually traditional communities.

__Examples:__  Amish

__Sustained:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0074; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Custom and tradition

Popular Culture <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Popular Culture-__ <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cultural traits (EX: dress, diet, music) that identify and are part of today’s changeable, urban-based, media influenced western societies.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Examples:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hollywood

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Sustained:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Diffusion

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Diffusion:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Transportation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marketing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communication Networks/ Technology

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b45cd1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Time Space Compression- the likelyhood of diffusion depends on connections (communication and transportation) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b45cd1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Distance Decay- the further you are from the hearth, the less likely diffusion is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b45cd1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b45cd1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://cudaaphug.wikispaces.com/file/view/Culture.JPG/263572902/Culture.JPG__] (time space compression model)

__Authenticity:__ the accuracy with which a single steriotype image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs

__Examples:__ Theme Parks Guinness and the Irish Pub

Pop Culture Video: media type="youtube" key="LXO-jKksQkM" height="315" width="560" Citation: definitions and examples: H.J de Blij chapter 4 []

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