Cultural geography

This means no tacos, no orange chicken from panda express, and oh yes the horror no pizza! In fact without globalization, and cultural diversity there wouldn’t even be a united states. Think about it. Columbus came to the Americas trying to get to India, to you guessed it, trade for gold. He wouldn’t have come if there were no need for trade. On the topic of cultural diversity however, without it the United States would not survive. The U.S. is entirely a big mix of a wide variety of cultures. The United States does not have one culture, there are many of them that live in unison, and we depend solely on the help of other countries. Without globalization there would be no U.S, which ironically spells out us. http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/21/entries/9346/gallery states “Cultural differences are vital to our lives, and it must take place in leading a global impact, in the search of human equality.” Meaning that we need cultural diversity in our lives in order to prevent things such as ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is the lowest form of racism. Its when you find another culture to be strange, and think that yours is superior than the other. This exists because of the misunderstanding of ones cultural identity. Less cultural identity comes with globalization, which is mostly viewed as a con, however it helps to eliminate problems such as…

If a person looks at a map of the world, all they see is colors, shapes, and names of countries. These lines on a map were drummed up by the empires of old and labeled it as the subject of geography. Geography may look like lines and colors on a map but, it is much deeper than that. It is the physical features of those lines on a map and the people who live there. In his book, Asia’s Cauldron, Robert D. Kaplan explains how physical and cultural geography is an important factor when dealing with…

Cultural geography’s philosophy is the belief that humans are not merely products of their surrounding environments but, rather that nature provides possibilities and humans would use them according to their traditions, culture and stage of development. This paper explores the cultural geography view of Sauer (1925) in conjunction with articles of Kniffen (1935), Trewartha (1932), Brown (1933) and MacDougal (1912) to explain the relationship between humans and their environment with approach…

Please read through Chapter 1 (Human Geography: A Cultural Approach) in your textbook and then choose* (and view) any three of the short PBS Frontline World films from their website (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/) with the following questions in mind: Why might knowing about cultural geography and/or utilizing a geographical perspective be significant in understanding today’s world? To help expand on my knowledge about the way of life in other cultures, I decided to watch as my…

The impact of war can be both detrimental and restorative to not only people, but the environment as well. Aside from culture growing and nations expanding, the outcome of a war can also influence and be influenced by geography. The history of all warfare can give us the facts, but geography can open up new windows of opportunities for learning about what society does not already know. War and geography go hand in hand including political, physical, economic, and human subgroups. The result…

sub-dicipline of cultural geography investigates the variation of these symbolisms, traditions, and cultural products across time and space. It is through the lens of cultural geography, especially in respect to environmental symbolism, that we can interpret the value and meaning attributed to everyday phenomena such as vegetation. It has been said that environmental symbolism is a means by which social identity, reality, and feeling are created, and this idea is central in arguing that…

Why Geography Matters More Than Ever Harm de Blij's " Why Geography Matters More Than Ever " is a book containing information much broader than the interaction of humans and their environment. The introduction starts with a basis ; explaining the roles of a geographer, historic events concerning early times in the Greek and Roman expansion, and the regard of geography's poor state due to the lack of knowledge. James Michener quotes " I am convinced that geography is the foundation of all ...…

I am doing very well in Cultural Geography I have a A+, as well as English, Biology Learning Lab. I think that I am doing well in this classes because I have been doing my work on time and I have been studying for the quizzes in does classes. Well I am going to continue doing the same thing I am doing know. I am going to continue to turn in all my work in time I am going to do extra credit know even if I don't need because it might help me later on and I'm going to keep studying for all my…

After watching National Geographic: Cultural Differences, TEDx, “Pellegrino Riccardi: Cross cultural communuication” and reading about cultural and behavioral geography in the reading for this week, I have come to notice how many factors have truly influenced my mental map. In the reading “Intro to geography” by Dahlman Renwick the definition of behavioral geography is “how our perception influences our behavior” and the images one imagines when thinking of these perceptions is our mental map. I…

By applying the geographical concepts of ancient art, geography is defined as the study of physical features of earth’s atmosphere, which includes natural resources, countries, continents, land use, oceans, rivers, and other, whether it is physical, human, or environmental. According to the history of art, the major parts of geography mainly consists in civilizations, such as ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. The art history of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt has been one of the huge concepts…