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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Oct. 10, 2014
Group Participants
1 Sun-Jin, Yun Sung: K-PopMin Kyung, Da eun: AuditionDong-gyun, Hyun-Rock: Hollywood DramaGyeongnam, Dain: Korean café culture
2 Jessica, Boogun: Black FridayJeolmir, Eden: Hollywood moviesSori, Sunny: HalloweenYong Ju, Dong Hyun, Jae Yoon: Korean Wedding
3 Jeongmin, Hee Sang: St. Patrick’s DayJeongin, Sohee: AnimationJeewon, Jungeun: Fast FoodDoeun, Myunghwa: ChristmasMin, Hyun Chul: Coffee industry in Korea
4 Eugene, Jungho: SNSJefferson, George: FootballJuhee, Kyung Eun: Korea’s DoljanchiHyunseo, Gyuwon: Jeans
Announcement
Research instructional session.
- One session will be scheduled
- Two choices: Tuesday (after 6:00 pm) or Wednesday (after 6:00 pm)
Today- Wrap up Culture unit
- Finish mini-presentations/discussions
- Begin Unit 4 - Indentity
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.
Diffusion of Popular Culture
Distance decay
Diffusion of Popular Culture
Distance decay
Diffusion of Popular Culture
Time space compression
Diffusion of Popular Culture
Time-space compression (connectedness)
Diffusion of Popular CultureTime-space compression (connectedness)
Diffusion of popular culture
Diffusion of popular culture
Stemming the tide of popular culture
Rapid diffusion of popular culture from major hearths
- United States
- Europe
- Japan
-…South Korea?
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
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Cultural landscape: Visible human imprint on the land
Placelessness: Similarity of places of popular cultures everywhere
Culture and the Cultural LandscapeConvergence of cultural landscapes:
1. Diffusion of skyscrapers as a mark of a city
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Convergence of cultural landscapes:
2. The widespread distribution of businesses and products
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Convergence of cultural landscapes:
3. Borrowing of idealized
landscape images
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Convergence of cultural landscapes:
3. Borrowing of idealized
landscape images
Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Convergence of cultural landscapes:
Interaction b/w pop and local culture
Interaction b/w pop and local culture
McDonald’s regional items
Shaka Shaka Chicken
Singapore
Interaction b/w pop and local culture
McDonald’s regional items
McLobster
Eastern Canada
Interaction b/w pop and local culture
McDonald’s regional items
Bulgogi Burger South Korea
So….who cares?
Group Participants
1 Sun-Jin, Yun Sung: K-PopMin Kyung, Da eun: AuditionDong-gyun, Hyun-Rock: Hollywood DramaGyeongnam, Dain: Korean café culture
2 Jessica, Boogun: Black FridayJeolmir, Eden: Hollywood moviesSori, Sunny: HalloweenYong Ju, Dong Hyun, Jae Yoon: Korean Wedding
3 Jeongmin, Hee Sang: St. Patrick’s DayJeongin, Sohee: AnimationJeewon, Jungeun: Fast FoodDoeun, Myunghwa: ChristmasMin, Hyun Chul: Coffee industry in Korea
4 Eugene, Jungho: SNSJefferson, George: FootballJuhee, Kyung Eun: Korea’s DoljanchiHyunseo, Gyuwon: Jeans
Identity
Race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality
- Defining and examining the concept of identity
- Relationships between identity and place
- Power relationships between groups
Defining identity
If asked to identify yourself, what would you say?
Defining identity
Nationality?
Defining identity
Gender?
Defining identity
Style/personal philosophy?
Defining identity
Occupation?
Defining identity
Sport preference?
Defining identity
Mode of transportation?
Defining identity
Where you go to school?
KAC students
Defining identity
What you are not?
Results/effects identity
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
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” Asianvs. “Savage” American Indians
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
Before next class
Do the second Identity reading