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WORLD GEOGRAPHY Oct. 10, 2014
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GroupParticipants 1 Sun-Jin, Yun Sung: K-Pop Min Kyung, Da eun: Audition Dong-gyun, Hyun-Rock: Hollywood Drama Gyeongnam, Dain: Korean café culture 2 Jessica, Boogun: Black Friday Jeolmir, Eden: Hollywood movies Sori, Sunny: Halloween Yong Ju, Dong Hyun, Jae Yoon: Korean Wedding 3 Jeongmin, Hee Sang: St. Patrick’s Day Jeongin, Sohee: Animation Jeewon, Jungeun: Fast Food Doeun, Myunghwa: Christmas Min, Hyun Chul: Coffee industry in Korea 4 Eugene, Jungho: SNS Jefferson, George: Football Juhee, Kyung Eun: Korea’s Doljanchi Hyunseo, Gyuwon: Jeans
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Announcement Research instructional session. - One session will be scheduled - Two choices: Tuesday (after 6:00 pm) or Wednesday (after 6:00 pm)
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Today - Wrap up Culture unit - Finish mini-presentations/discussions - Begin Unit 4 - Indentity
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Diffusion of Popular Culture Distance-decay: More interaction between closer places than between more distant places. Time-space compression: Interaction dependent on connectedness among places.
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Diffusion of Popular Culture Distance decay
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Diffusion of Popular Culture Distance decay
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Diffusion of Popular Culture Time space compression
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Diffusion of Popular Culture Time-space compression (connectedness)
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Diffusion of Popular Culture Time-space compression (connectedness)
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Diffusion of popular culture
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Stemming the tide of popular culture Rapid diffusion of popular culture from major hearths - United States - Europe - Japan -…South Korea?
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Stemming the tide of popular culture Resistance - Government subsidies: Media in local languages - Policies (e.g. language policies in Quebec) - Minorities in wealthy countries: Cultural preservation - Political elites in poorer countries: Nationalist ideologies - Social and ethnic minorities in poorer countries: Greater autonomy
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape Cultural landscape: Visible human imprint on the land Placelessness: Similarity of places of popular cultures everywhere
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes: 1. Diffusion of skyscrapers as a mark of a city
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes: 2. The widespread distribution of businesses and products
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape
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Convergence of cultural landscapes: 3. Borrowing of idealized landscape images
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes: 3. Borrowing of idealized landscape images
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape Convergence of cultural landscapes:
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Interaction b/w pop and local culture
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McDonald’s regional items Shaka Shaka Chicken Singapore
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Interaction b/w pop and local culture McDonald’s regional items McLobster Eastern Canada
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Interaction b/w pop and local culture McDonald’s regional items Bulgogi Burger South Korea
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So….who cares?
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GroupParticipants 1 Sun-Jin, Yun Sung: K-Pop Min Kyung, Da eun: Audition Dong-gyun, Hyun-Rock: Hollywood Drama Gyeongnam, Dain: Korean café culture 2 Jessica, Boogun: Black Friday Jeolmir, Eden: Hollywood movies Sori, Sunny: Halloween Yong Ju, Dong Hyun, Jae Yoon: Korean Wedding 3 Jeongmin, Hee Sang: St. Patrick’s Day Jeongin, Sohee: Animation Jeewon, Jungeun: Fast Food Doeun, Myunghwa: Christmas Min, Hyun Chul: Coffee industry in Korea 4 Eugene, Jungho: SNS Jefferson, George: Football Juhee, Kyung Eun: Korea’s Doljanchi Hyunseo, Gyuwon: Jeans
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Identity Race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality - Defining and examining the concept of identity - Relationships between identity and place - Power relationships between groups
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Defining identity If asked to identify yourself, what would you say?
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Defining identity Nationality?
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Defining identity Gender?
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Defining identity Style/personal philosophy?
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Defining identity Occupation?
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Defining identity Sport preference?
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Defining identity Mode of transportation?
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Defining identity Where you go to school? KAC students
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Defining identity What you are not?
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Results/effects identity
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What is identity? Identity: “How we make sense of ourselves” – Rose - Fluid, constantly changing, shifting, becoming - Vary across scales, and affect each other across scales
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How is identity constructed? - Through experiences, emotions, connections, and rejections - A snapshot of who we are at a point in time - Identifying against (defining the other and then defining ourselves as “not that”) e.g. “Civilized” European vs. “Mystical” Asian vs. “Savage” American Indians
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How is identity constructed? Role of state nationalism - Many people define themselves by their nationality or country of origin. to be examined later in the course
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Before next class Do the second Identity reading
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