Uniformities and Globalization - popular culture

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• Chapter 7-3

• Uniformities and Globalization - popular culture
• Global McDonald and Pizza Hut, Coca-cola..Polo
  Shirt, Nike Air.
• Taste of China (fast Chinese food)
• Popular Culture - diffuses rapidly,
  drive-through to-go... auto culture.
• 38,000 shopping malls, Mall of America,
  Woodfield Mall in Chicago, King of Prussia in
  Philadelphia.
• Popular culture is commercialized culture.
• chain stores (book store), cinemas, Kinkos
• Wal-Marts, K-Marts, Sears,..
• Regional Emphasis
• uneven distr. of classical town names (7.31)
  suggest that no all expressions of popular
  culture are spatially uniform.
• 7.32 a.TV viewers, b. Snack Nuts c. Fraternal
  Orders d. Smoking

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Vernacular Regions

• Figure 7.34 - the generalized consensus regions
  based on an understood sense of place, derived
  from current population and landscape
  characteristic as well as on historical
  differences that impart distinctive regional
  behaviors and attitudes.