regional culture
Area's distinct customs
Regional culture encompasses the distinctive customs, traditions, arts, cuisine, dialect, and social practices shared by people in a particular geographic area.
It develops through shared history, climate, economy, and relative isolation from other regions: The regional culture of the American South includes distinctive food, music, and speech patterns.
Regional cultures may persist even as national and global influences spread, often becoming points of local pride or tourist attraction.
- community eventsOrganized local group activities
- dialectRegional language variety
- local festivalsRegional public celebrations
- town squareCentral civic space
- historic preservationProtecting significant old structures
local traditions · heritage tourism · creation myth · culinary heritage · family recipe · folk music · idiom · ritual · sacred ground · etiquette · oral tradition · artisan crafts · storytelling · vernacular · multilingualism · mother tongue · traditional costume · homeland
- culturesMediterranean cultures, subculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground
- local pridehometown pride, civic pride, community roots, state pride, neighborhood pride
- Iberian HistorySpain, Portugal, Iberia, Castile, Aragon
- Japanese Historyshogunate, samurai, Tokugawa Ieyasu, shogun, daimyo
- Cultural Policyarts funding, arts council, arts councils, heritage preservation, public funding
- German StatesBavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg
regional cultureglobal culture
Humanity's shared practices worldwide
monoculture · mass culture · national culture · dominant culture · local culture
regional culturemonoculture
Single-crop agricultural system
cultural imperialism · corporate culture · consumer culture · Americanization · pop culture