IB Geography · Unit 5 · HL

Unit 5 Human development: Identities and local responses

14 revision questions with answers for Unit 5 Human development: Identities and local responses, marked HL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.

A question from this set

Adapting a worldwide brand's products to suit tastes in each market, such as regional fast-food menus?

  • Homogenisation
  • Acculturation
  • GlocalisationRight answer
  • Diffusion
From Unit 5 Human development: Identities and local responses, 14 questions.

What this set covers

Culture, identity and local reactions to globalisation are covered. Glocalisation, cultural homogenisation, hybridity, diaspora, assimilation and acculturation, cultural imperialism, multiculturalism, localism, the Slow Food movement, sense of place and cultural landscape appear.

Common mix-up
Students often mix up assimilation and acculturation: assimilation means losing a distinct identity in the host culture, while acculturation adopts some traits through contact without fully losing one's own.
Revision tip
Pick one global brand and describe an example of glocalisation and one of homogenisation. Then check that you can define cultural diffusion and cultural imperialism separately.

All 14 questions and answers

  1. Adapting a worldwide brand's products to suit tastes in each market, such as regional fast-food menus?

    Answer: Glocalisation

  2. Growing worldwide sameness of tastes, brands and media as consumer products spread?

    Answer: Cultural homogenisation

  3. Blending of traditions from different places to create new forms, such as fusion food?

    Answer: Cultural hybridity

  4. Population scattered from its homeland that keeps ties to its place of origin?

    Answer: Diaspora

  5. Process by which a minority adopts the host culture and loses its own distinct identity?

    Answer: Assimilation

  6. Adopting some traits of another group through prolonged contact, without fully losing one's own identity?

    Answer: Acculturation

  7. Domination of a weaker society by the values, products and media of a powerful one?

    Answer: Cultural imperialism

  8. Spread of traits such as language, religion or cuisine from one place to another?

    Answer: Cultural diffusion

  9. Policy recognising and supporting many ethnic groups' traditions within one society?

    Answer: Multiculturalism

  10. Organisations outside government and business, such as NGOs, charities and community groups?

    Answer: Civil society

  11. Preference for nearby production, small businesses and community control over global economic forces?

    Answer: Localism

  12. Movement founded in Italy in the 1980s to protect traditional regional cuisine against standardised chains?

    Answer: Slow food

  13. Emotional attachment and meaning that people give to a particular locality?

    Answer: Sense of place

  14. Visible imprint of a people's way of life on the land, such as temples and field patterns?

    Answer: Cultural landscape

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