Mexico/U.S. Borderland Region
You live on either side of the Rio Grande, either in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico or in El Paso, Texas, in the United States. Working with the person sitting next to you, take five to seven minutes to briefly answer the following questions FOR EACH AREA: What types of jobs might you hold? Where might you work? What language(s) might you speak? What might be your ethnic background? What might be some of the most difficult things about living so closely to the other country?
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Double Bubble Graphic Organizer
Large Group Discussion Double Bubble: Template Watch Boundaries and Borderland – Power of Place Add details to your double bubble. How are the two groups' answers similar? How are they different? What effect does the border have on the people living nearby? 4. How does the borderland region between the US and Mexico illustrate the different types of regions discussed in Chapter 1? How does this relate to diffusion?
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