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How Are Local Cultures Sustained? (Rural Local Cultures (Often have an…
How Are Local Cultures Sustained?
Rural Local Cultures
Often have an easier time keeping their culture due to isolation
Anabaptists
When a local culture discontinues its major economic activity, it faces the challenge of maintaining the custom that depended on the economic activity
Makah American Indians
Little Sweden
Urban Local Cultures
Ethnic neighborhoods
Jewish people in NY
Italians in Boston
Represents culture of the people
Local Cultures and Culture Appropriation
Culture Appropriation is going away from your own culture and going into a new one, while not knowing that you are offending someone's culture by trying to represent it.
Commodification- The process through which something that previously wasn't regarded as an object to be bought or sold becomes an object that can be bought or sold.
affects local cultures negatively
loses authenticity
Authenticity of Places
A local culture shouldn't have to be mystical in order to seem "authentic"
Guinness and the Irish Pub Company
The search for authentic local cultures implies an effort to identify people who are seemingly untouched by change or external influence.
Assimilation
Discouraging native practices by using things like school & churches
The US, Canada, Australia, Russia and etc. all participated in assimilation
Custom
Practice that a group of people routinely follow.
Customs must be retained in order to sustain a local culture.
Simon Harrison