§2.4: cultural regions - part 1

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§2.4: cultural regions

Today

• Recap §2.3
• Explanation + assignment 
• Assignments workbook 

Learning goals §2.3

• You know how you can describe a culture with three types of cultural elements.
  
• You understand why cultures diffused and blended in the past and present.
  
• You can form your opinion on a topic in five steps.
  

Culture

• Cultural elements
• Cultural diffusion
• Cultural blending

Today

• Recap §2.3
• Explanation + assignment 
• Assignments workbook 

Learning goals

• You know where the six cultural regions are located and what their main cultural elements are.
  
• You understand why specific cultural elements occur in a different cultural region.
  
• You can point out countries in the cultural regions.
  

Cultural regions

• Hundreds of different cultures 
• You can divide them in different ways 
• Based on cultural elements: religion, history, language, prosperity, food, etc. 

Cultural regions

• Main cultural regions: the culture resembles each other more than they differ from each other
  
• Within the cultural regions: subcultures 

Assignment 

• Work in pairs
• How do you think the cultural regions in the world look like?  Fill in the map

Possible division of cultural regions on earth 

• Islamic world
• Western world
• Africa south of the Sahara
• Latin America
• Russia and the former Soviet Union
• East, South and Southeast Asia

Islamic world

North Africa

Central Asia & Middle East

Indonesia

Islamic world

Characteristics:

• wearing of headscarves
  
• praying five times a day
  
• mosques
  
• no pork eaten
  
• no alcohol drunk
  
• Koran is important
  
• Ramadan is month of fasting
  
• Arabic (except in Indonesia)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

• People often live in tribes
  
• Each tribe has its own language and customs
  
• Multiple tribes live in one country

Sub-Saharan Africa

• How did this happen? 
  
• Colonial rulers drew boundaries
  

• Which languages, besides the native African language, do the people speak?

• French and English
  

• Which religions? 
  
• Christianity, Islam, traditional African religions
  

Today

• Recap §2.3
• Explanation + assignment 
• Assignments workbook 

Start homework 

•  Read §2.4
•  Make assignment 1 and 3