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World geography

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World Geography

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What is Geography

Geography is the study of earth and its people.

Geography is a field of science dedicated to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth".

Traditionally, geographers have been viewed the same way as cartographers and people who study place names and numbers.

Although many geographers are trained in toponymy and cartology, this is not their main preoccupation. Geographers study the spatial and the temporal distribution of phenomena, processes, and features as well as the interaction of humans and their environment. .

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Vocabulary

Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose.

Inhabitants: A person who fulfils the residential or legal requirements for being a member of a state or parish.

Literal: Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggeration.

Cartographers: A cartographer is a person who creates maps, whether they're of the world, the local bus routes, or buried pirate treasure

Toponymy: The study of place names.

Arbitrarily: Subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision.

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Different and Changing Worlds

Political, economic, and social experience and expectations are rapidly change nowadays.

The physical shape of world isn’t change.

But connecting among people bring places closer as cooperation, competition, and conflict with other peoples become more intense.

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9/11

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9/11

• The 911 event alerted American’s government

“You can not dominate another county arbitrarily”

• What’s different from Muslims and Americans?

Environment Society, Economics, Politics

• Oil Economics Political Power Cultural decline, poverty, belief

conflict reaction

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4 geographic levels to see Earth

Globalviews from spacecraft show the contrasts between continental land areas and ocean

waters.

Major World regionsare whole or large parts of continents and are the division used in this text for the

regional chapters.

Countriesare the building blocks of major world regions.

Local regionsare parts of countries and the places where many individuals voice their concerns.

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Globalization vs. Localization

Globalization – Globalization is increasing level of interconnections among people throughout the

world. – The speed and intensity of globalization, in terms of world trade and the flow of

financial investments, increased markedly in the 1990s.

Localization is both response to and the outcome of globalization. – On the one hand, global exchanges and flows of information, ideas, people, money,

and technology move us toward worldwide political solutions, economic exchanges, cultural attitudes, and environmental concerns.

– On the other, localization focuses on distinctive identities of places or people in regions, countries, or local areas.

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Facets of Globalization and Localization

Increasing connections take place through intensified flows of ideas, goods, and people:Ideas, technologies, and diseases;Goods from many place of manufacture;People migrations for work, political asylum, family consolidation, and long-distance tourism;The spread of images and message through the media of TV, film, the Internet and print.

Local voice remain loud in our consciousness and ensure that global trends are often far from being fulfilled.

Political nationalism maintains separation countries and of groups within countries. Ex. Basque, Aceh

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Cultural Activities: Major Regions, Local Voice

One world culture? Did these wiped out the local cultural differenceCocacola-ization of eating and drinking habits

the spread of Western TV, movies, pop music

global markets for some consumer goods

Ex. India

Western cultural normsdemocracy, individual ,and human rights

Materialism, consumerism, and superficial value

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2 sentences each

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