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WORLD GEOGRAPHY Oct. 7, 2014
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Today Culture - Culture diffusion, cultural landscapes - Mini-presentations/discussions
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Culture defined Culture is… Sum total of knowledge, attitudes, habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of society.
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Korea: Then vs. Now
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Elements of culture - Language English words (loan words) - Slang - gender roles - Religion- architecture - Customs and practices less traditional - Clothing/fashion designer fashion (foreign brands) - Cuisine/food - Music Hip hop K-pop
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Mind association - What place do you think of when you see each of these images?
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Local & Popular Cultures Local culture: A group in a particular place that sees itself as a community, shares experiences, customs, and traits, and works to preserve those traits and customs to distinguish the group from others. Popular culture: A large, heterogeneous population, typically urban, with rapidly changing culture.
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Local cultures Acceptance vs. rejection of popular culture traits Impact on the landscape - Nonmaterial culture: Beliefs, practices, aesthetics, values - Material culture: Constructed items, frequently expressing nonmaterial culture Establishment of neighborhoods, construction of places of worship and community centers
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Rural local cultures Isolation Common economic activity among members Anabaptists Mennonites Amish Hutterites Makah Indians, Neah Bay, Washington Little Sweden, U.S.A.— Lindsborg, Kansas
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Example – the Amish - Originated in Europe - Anabaptists: separated from Catholic and Protestant Christianity. - Live in their own farm-based communities Maintain own culture: religion, education, technology
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Example – the Amish
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Urban local cultures Ethnic neighborhoods within cities: - Creates a space to practice customs - Can cluster businesses, houses of worship, schools to support local culture
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Example – Williamsburg (Brooklyn) Large Hasidic Jewish community
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Example – Williamsburg (Brooklyn) Large Hasidic Jewish community
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Urban local cultures - Migration into ethnic neighborhoods can quickly change an ethnic neighborhood
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Popular cultures Practiced by large, heterogeneous group Rapid spread of new traits, often by hierarchical diffusion from a hearth, through transportation, communication, and marketing networks Interaction between local and popular cultures Patronage by local cultures of popular culture services Adoption by popular culture of local culture traits
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Popular culture
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Commodification Process of making something that was not previously bought and sold a commodity in the marketplace - Material culture objects for sale to outsiders - Tourist value of culture as a whole Question of authenticity of places - Mystical images - Creation of identity from cultural traits
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Irish Pub Company Pubs Irish Pub Company and Guinness Brewing Company created 5 models of pubs and export them around the world.
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Outback Steakhouse
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TGI Friday’s
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Hard Rock Cafe
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Hill tribes in Thailand
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Native American Reservations
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The very first “documentary” “Nanook of the North” (1922) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7YL5auJzA
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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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Before next class Do the reading (Identity)
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