World geography

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World geography

• Oct. 10, 2014

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Group Participants
1 Sun-Jin, Yun Sung K-Pop Min Kyung, Da eun Audition Dong-gyun, Hyun-Rock Hollywood Drama Gyeongnam, Dain Korean café culture
2 Jessica, Boogun Black Friday Jeolmir, Eden Hollywood movies Sori, Sunny Halloween Yong Ju, Dong Hyun, Jae Yoon Korean Wedding
3 Jeongmin, Hee Sang St. Patricks Day Jeongin, Sohee Animation Jeewon, Jungeun Fast Food Doeun, Myunghwa Christmas Min, Hyun Chul Coffee industry in Korea
4 Eugene, Jungho SNS Jefferson, George Football Juhee, Kyung Eun Koreas Doljanchi Hyunseo, Gyuwon Jeans
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Announcement

• Research instructional session.
• One session will be scheduled
• - Two choices Tuesday (after 600 pm) or
  Wednesday (after 600 pm)

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Today

• Wrap up Culture unit
• Finish mini-presentations/discussions
• Begin Unit 4 - Indentity

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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.

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Diffusion of Popular Culture

• Distance decay

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Diffusion of Popular Culture

• Distance decay

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Diffusion of Popular Culture

• Time space compression

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Diffusion of Popular Culture

• Time-space compression (connectedness)

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Diffusion of Popular Culture

• Time-space compression (connectedness)

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Diffusion of popular culture
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Diffusion of popular culture
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Stemming the tide of popular culture

• Rapid diffusion of popular culture from major
  hearths
• - United States
• - Europe
• - Japan
• -South Korea?

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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

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Culture and the Cultural Landscape

• Cultural landscape Visible human imprint on the
  land
• Placelessness Similarity of places of popular
  cultures everywhere

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Culture and the Cultural Landscape

• Convergence of cultural landscapes
• 1. Diffusion of skyscrapers as a mark of a city

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Culture and the Cultural Landscape

• Convergence of cultural landscapes
• 2. The widespread distribution of businesses and
  products

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Culture and the Cultural Landscape
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape
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Culture and the Cultural Landscape

• Convergence of cultural landscapes
• 3. Borrowing of idealized
• landscape images

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Culture and the Cultural Landscape

• Convergence of cultural landscapes
• 3. Borrowing of idealized
• landscape images

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Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Convergence of cultural landscapes
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Interaction b/w pop and local culture
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Interaction b/w pop and local culture

• McDonalds regional items
• Shaka Shaka Chicken
• ?Singapore

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Interaction b/w pop and local culture

• McDonalds regional items
• McLobster
• ?Eastern Canada

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Interaction b/w pop and local culture

• McDonalds regional items
• Bulgogi Burger ?South Korea

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So.who cares?
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Group Participants
1 Sun-Jin, Yun Sung K-Pop Min Kyung, Da eun Audition Dong-gyun, Hyun-Rock Hollywood Drama Gyeongnam, Dain Korean café culture
2 Jessica, Boogun Black Friday Jeolmir, Eden Hollywood movies Sori, Sunny Halloween Yong Ju, Dong Hyun, Jae Yoon Korean Wedding
3 Jeongmin, Hee Sang St. Patricks Day Jeongin, Sohee Animation Jeewon, Jungeun Fast Food Doeun, Myunghwa Christmas Min, Hyun Chul Coffee industry in Korea
4 Eugene, Jungho SNS Jefferson, George Football Juhee, Kyung Eun Koreas Doljanchi Hyunseo, Gyuwon Jeans
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Identity

• Race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality - Defining
  and examining the concept of identity -
  Relationships between identity and place -
  Power relationships between groups

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Defining identity

• If asked to identify yourself, what would you say?

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Defining identity

• Nationality?

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Defining identity

• Gender?

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Defining identity

• Style/personal philosophy?

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Defining identity

• Occupation?

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Defining identity

• Sport preference?

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Defining identity

• Mode of transportation?

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Defining identity
KAC students

• Where you go to school?

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Defining identity

• What you are not?

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Results/effects identity
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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

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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 Asian vs.
  Savage American Indians

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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

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Before next class

• Do the second Identity reading