GEOG 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Integrated Geography, European Canadian, Anglo-Irish Big House
1 Sep 2016
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Processes: why the patterns are produced: human-environmental interactions. How humans change their environmental geography and affect it. Pollution, acid rain: culture, dimensions (of culture, ethnicity/ ethnic geography. Culture: an entire way of life by a group. Idealogies lead to feelings of ownership of locations/areas. The ways/mechanisms that we maintain/shape our culture and preserve it. Ex: (p) course is mandatory so that students will be aware of america"s pluralistic culture. English course is required because we want to maintain english speaking. Socio-cultural (ethnic groups create organizations to preserve themselves) Culture is the sum of elements + institutions that mark them as unique. Culture is a social construct: an idea formed by society. Cultural and ethnic landscapes are the material expression of a culture. Asian immigration from hong kong because it is the closest city to fly to. Hong kong immigrants preserve wealth + culture through real estate.
