1. The food people eat and the ways in which they serve and celebrate this food reveal a great deal about their culture, the local environment, and their relations with other places.
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2. The following photographs are a week’s work of groceries for each family. What would your photograph look like?

3. What foods do you recognize?
Identify at least two images that you find surprising or particularly interesting.

4. Guatemala: The Mendozas of Todos Santos
Food expenditure for one week: 573 Quetzales or US$75.70 Family Recipe: Turkey Stew and Susana Perez Matias's Sheep Soup

5. The Matsuda family: Yomitan Village, Okinawa, Japan.
Takeo Matsuda, 88, and his wife Keiko, 75, Takeo’s mother, Kama, 100.
Food expenditure for one week: $ USD

6. Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $ Favorite foods: sashimi, fruit, cake, potato chips

7. Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214
Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: Euros or $ Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks

8. Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23 Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

9. Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City Food expenditure for one week: dinar or $ Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice

10. United States: The Revis family of North Carolina Food expenditure for one week: $ Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

11. Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca Food expenditure for one week: 1, Mexican Pesos or $ Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken

12. China: The Dong family of Beijing Food expenditure for one week: 1,233
China: The Dong family of Beijing Food expenditure for one week: 1, Yuan or $ Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce

13. Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo Food expenditure for one week: 387
Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo Food expenditure for one week: Egyptian Pounds or $68.53 Family recipe: Okra and mutton

14. Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo Food expenditure for one week: $31
Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo Food expenditure for one week: $31.55 Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage

15. United States: The Caven family of California Food expenditure for one week: $ Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream

16. Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar Food expenditure for one week: 41, togrogs or $40.02 Family recipe: Mutton dumplings

17. Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis Food expenditure for one week: British Pounds or $ Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream

18. Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: ngultrum or $5.03 Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork

19. Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: Euros or $ Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding

20. Mali: The Natomos of Kouakourou
Food expenditure for one week: 17,670 francs or US$26.39 Family Recipe: Natomo Family Rice Dish

21. Material World
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22. What would your photograph look like?
The following photographs are of different families homes and possessions.
What would your photograph look like?
Where in the world are these homes?

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33. Quiet at the back: classrooms around the world – in pictures
From the Russian pupils in Prada to the Nigerian children who sit four to a desk, photographer Julian Germain takes us on a journey around the world's classrooms
From: The Guardian, September 14, 2012

34. Review the following classrooms from around the world.
Identify at least two you find particularly compelling or interesting.
Be prepared to discuss.

35. Primary age children not in school
Fertility rate
(births per woman)
1.9
Primary age children not in school
5% Life expectancy at birth 73
Youth (15-24) literacy
97.8% Population on less than $2 a day
10%
School Escola Estadual Nossa Senhora do Belo Ramo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
This was a typical school for working-class kids. Anybody who has money in Brazil sends their kids to private school. These kids lived in the favela and were very poor. There wasn’t an abundance of books and bags in the class. It was under-resourced, and it’s hard for any child at a school like this to go to university.

36. School Agnes-Miegl-Realschule, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fertility rate
1.4 Life expectancy at birth 80 Population on less than $2 a day
0% Primary age children not in school
16% Youth literacy
99.1%
This is what’s known as a “real school”. These kids were very relaxed and bright. I think they look quite grown up, and they’re definitely cool without being stroppy. You’ve got the boy in the cool scarf, the girl in the fashionable Vans; and you can see that the school has commissioned a graffiti artist to decorate the classroom. Youth culture is a part of the fabric of the building. There was a party going on in a nearby classroom, and the teachers and parents were partying with the kids.

37. 5.3 Life expectancy at birth
Fertility rate
5.3 Life expectancy at birth
65 Population on less than $2 a day
Data not available Primary age children not in school
22% Youth literacy 84.1%
School Al Ishraq Primary, Akamat Al Me’gab, Yemen
This is the whole school in the picture. It was a one-room primary school in a tiny village in a mountainous, largely agricultural region of Yemen. The views out of the windows were spectacular. We had to use 100m of cables to work my lights because there was no electricity. I guess that the kids were between five and 12, although some might even have been younger. Small rural schools such as this were more relaxed about boys and girls being taught together. The older kids were helping to teach the younger ones.

38. School Beaumont High School, St Louis, Missouri
Fertility rate
2 Life expectancy at birth
78 Population on less than $2 a day
0% Primary age children not in school
3% Youth literacy
99.7%
This school really reflected the reality of downtown St Louis, which is that it’s black. The district was extraordinary – like pictures I had seen of Detroit. You could drive through block after block of houses that were almost falling down. The school was a large, fairly old and traditional building, but the headmaster was very enthusiastic and I got a sense that the kids and teachers got on well. This was a proper lesson. It was geometry and it was way over my head. I visited a few state schools in this district of St Louis, and the only one that had more than a handful of any white students at all was the Gifted and Talented school.

39. School Escolar Secundaria Tiracanchi, Peru
Fertility rate
2.5 Life expectancy at birth
74 Population on less than $2 a day
15% Primary age children not in school
3% Youth literacy 97.4%
It took us four hours in a wagon to reach Tiracanchi. It’s a tiny village in the mountains, and 25% of the kids spoke only Quechua, the native language. They were very timid and quiet; 82% of their fathers were farmers or stockmen, and only 46% had electricity at home. The biggest problem here was teachers – none of the local population is educated enough to teach, and none of the teachers from the cities wants to live in this very remote place earning very little money. It really felt like being in another world.

40. School Jessore Zilla School, Jessore, Bangladesh
Fertility rate
2.3 Life expectancy at birth
68 Population on less than $2 a day
81% Primary age children not in school
27% Youth literacy 75.5%
Even though it looks it, this wasn’t a military school. It was just their uniform, but it was definitely one that would instil pride. The school was very strict and regimented, and the boys were taught by rote. They asked me lots of questions about what I thought of their country, whether I thought it was nice, whether I thought it was poor. They were very ambitious, believed that school was an important opportunity, and they wanted to do something with their lives and planned to study on. They saw themselves as potential lawyers and doctors.

41. School Kuramo Junior College, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Life expectancy at birth
51 Population on less than $2 a day
84% Primary age children not in school
38% Youth literacy 71.2%
There were probably 60 kids in this class, but others had closer to 90. Some classrooms were more like outdoor rooms with a roof. I saw lessons being taught there, but they wouldn’t let me photograph them. They were very sensitive about it. They wanted me to photograph this room, which had been recently decorated. Having said that, it’s still authentic. It was fascinating to see that the energy companies had donated desks. And the kids just about managed to park their bums on a bench, but they were three or four to a desk.

42. School Gambella Elementary School, Gambella, Ethiopia Fertility rate
4.4 Life expectancy at birth
58 Population on less than $2 a day
78% Primary age children not in school
17% Youth literacy 44.6%
Gambella is a small village about 420km outside of Addis Ababa. It had rained, so our car couldn’t get all the way and we had to walk the last couple of miles through the most beautiful landscape. The school was incredibly basic, and two of the teachers hadn’t shown up that day. In a school of only five classes, that wasn’t great. Having said that, a lot of the kids do go on to secondary school, where students I saw were being taught the laws of thermodynamics. The pupils I met at this primary school were all very enthusiastic and keen to show me their handwriting. In this part of Ethiopia at least, being a teacher is highly respected.

43. School Min-sheng Junior High School, Taipei, Taiwan Fertility rate
0.9 Life expectancy at birth
72 Population on less than $2 a day
0% Primary age children not in school
Data not available Youth literacy Data not available
This was totally unexpected. The students had lunch together in the classroom with their teacher, which was a very nice and social thing. Then they all sat down at their desks and had a nap for 30 minutes. It was like a lesson set aside just for napping. It’s so ingrained in their culture that they did actually fall asleep. Afterwards, they had 10 minutes’ fresh air in the yard, then restarted lessons.

44. School School No 63, Kalininsky District, St Petersburg, Russia
Fertility rate
1.5 Life expectancy at birth
69 Population on less than $2 a day
0% Primary age children not in school
4% Youth literacy 99.7%
Russia takes education very seriously, and these were very ambitious kids. Every single one of them would be going to university. They already had the power high heels on, and the chic designer suits. They weren’t wearing Nike trainers here – it was more about Gucci and Prada. This class looked more like it was made up of business people than students.

45. 1.5 Life expectancy at birth
School Escuela Primaria Angela Landa, Old Havana, Cuba
Fertility rate
1.5 Life expectancy at birth
79 Population on less than $2 a day
0% Primary age children not in school
5% Youth literacy 100%
Cuba is renowned for its excellent education system, despite its poverty. In every country I’ve gone to I’ve seen pictures of historical, cultural and religious figures, but Cuba took this to a new level. You see posters of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and his brother (here in the background). They almost became the dominant feature of my entire set of pictures from Cuba, because they are always there.

46. “Here’s what school lunch looks like in 13 countries around the world”
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