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