Cultural Geography

Today in class we started to take notes on a powerpoint Mr. Schick made called Cultural Geography. We hardly even got through it we wre sidetracked so much! Everyone had lots of questions and comments and the answers Mr. Schick gave would lead to getting even farther off topic. Anyways, some of the stuff that we did get the chance to take notes on was about cultural characteristics. They are parts of everyday life, ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members, and those same characteristics can link or divide a region. I gave the example like how in Sudan Muslims are in the north and Christians and tribal religions in the south, which caused them to go into civil war and eventually split the countries. Some examples of cultural characteristics are language, religion, and ethnic heritage. For language, we took notes that Arabic unites the Arab world and Spanish unites the Hispanic world. We also learned that English is the world language and is the language of money. For ethnic heritage we took notes that said Yugoslavia (which is no longer a country) had many ethnic groups and were made into a country. When the strong government died out, they got into a bloody civil war and now they all have different countries. P.S. I have a new goal to put a picture that relates to each of my bog posts from now on to make it more interesting!!