GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Asia World
28 Oct 2016
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Examines the processes that give rise to differences. Continents must have a land mass, no independent land mass (arctic) Cultural as well as political, social, and economic icons. Continents aren"t as objective as they appear. Overlook differences within continents (don"t pay attention to what"s going on inside of them) Allies of the usa (blue, australia, europe) Formally non-alliance states (green/yellow, south america, africa) Reinforces stereotypes (west is powerful, rich, progress & democracy// east (muslim) is weak, poor, backward stagnant) Based on income (most common form of describing well being) (developed) usa, parts of western europe, japan. (developing) parts of south america, africa, some parts of asia. Don"t correspond with any forms of organizing the world previously. Formal regions (locations are divided into regions based on one characteristic like level of security, location in correspondence to latitude, or level of gov"t) Functional regions (set of locations that are connected by one or more flows (economic, political, cultural, activity spaces, international communications)
