GEOG 1001 Lecture : Lecture 2 1-23-2014
Document Summary
International borders seem stable, but many are recent from the 19th century and from the mid-20th century. Influenced by european colonialism: another influence by a major realignment that occurred at the end of the cold war in the 1990s. Which cause regional identities to shift: problem with borders changing: may cut across ethnic, cultural, or national lines or put people together that don"t want to be together or slip people up by splitting a country. Dutch speaking belgium"s in the north and french speaking belgium"s in the. Includes both abstract and material dimensions: these are things that you can touch and other things that you can only feel, example: religion is part of culture. We can expressions of religion in a cultural landscape: churches, synagogues, mosques, temples. In any given year there are over 200 million people in the world who are international migrants: willing migrants- people who want to be/be somewhere else, forced migrants- because of war, ethnic cleansing.
