Chapter 3,2 guide

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Chapter 3,2

The culture of South-East Asia

(guide)

The aim of this lesson

• What different kind of borders we have. (G150)
• What is a continental shelf? (G150)
• What is a people, a nation and a state? (G151)
• What is culture? And name some examples of culture characteristics. (G152)

The region South-East Asia is multicultural.

1. true
2. false

There are no islands in the region South-East Asia.

1. True
2. False

When a region borders the sea on three sides, we call that...

1. three-border-island
2. peninsula
3. multicultural
4. An ethnic region

Indonesia

Cambodia

The Philippines

Hinduism

Catholic

Islam

Name three cultural characteristics.

In some states there are problems between cultural groups. How is South-East Asia working to solve this problem?

G150 States and borders

A state is a region with two characteristics: it has clear borders and its own government (sovereign state). 

There are two kinds of state borders:

1. Natural border (A border along a natural obstacle, such as a river or mountain range)
2. Artificial border (A  man-made border marked by signs and boundary posts)

Artificial border

Natural border

At sea there are also borders. The part of the seabed that belongs to a country is often an area of shallow water. It belongs to the continent, but is under water. It is called the continental shelf. On the continental shelf there are artificial borders.

G151 People, nation, state

A people is a group of human being who have lived together for centuries and share the same culture. 

For example:

The indians in the Amazon

The aboriginals in Australia

But also the Austrian people and 

the Inuit people in Greenland, Canada and Russia

G151 People, nation, state

If only one people lives in a state, it is called a nation. It is also called a nation state. Iceland and Denmark are good examples of nation states.

G151 people, nation, state

Some states are the homeland of several peoples. Russia, for example.

G151, People, nation, state

In some cases, the homeland of a people extends over more than one state.

The Kurds, for example

G152 Culture

Culture is a word that describes the beliefs and customs that we learn when we are growing up.

For example: If you are from an Arab family, you learn the language, religion and way of dressing that belong to Arab culture. 

G152 Culture

You can also recognize a culture by elements of the spatial planning. 

For example: 

Mosques belongs to the Islamic culture.

Dutch cities and towns have a lot of cycle paths.

G152 Culture

There are seven cultural regions. These are regions with a similar culture. But if you zoom in on a national or regional scale, you will discover 

major differences within 

a cultural region.

G152 Culture

Elements of a culture can spread 

from one cultural region to another. 

This is called diffusion

For example:

McDonalds

Homework

Learn chapter 3,2 and do assignment 2-3-7-8-9

Assignment 2: use Alcarta page 222-223 and page 232-233

Assignment 3: use Alcarta page 252