1AGT §2.3

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Planning for today

• Question to the answer
  
• Lesson goals
• Explanation §2.3
• Do exercises of §2.3
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• Continue exercises of §2.3
• Planner
• What did you learn this lesson?

Question to the answer

• Write down the question that belongs to the answers shown on screen.
  

The average life expectancy is rising and lots of babies are born.

What are the causes of population growth?

That is someone who does not have a job in their town and leaves their home country to look for work elsewhere.

What is a labour migrant?

That is a negative thing about someones home country that makes them want to leave.

What is a push factor?

Lesson goals

•  You can describe a culture with three types of cultural elements.
• You can explain why cultures diffused and blended in the past and present. 

What is culture?

Explanation §2.3 - Culture

• Culture is the way in which a group of people live together.
• The main characteristics of a culture are called cultural elements:

1. Language and religion: things to do with your intellect.
2. Laws, family ties and education: things to do with how you live together.
3. Clothes, food, buildings and art: the visible things in a country.

• The spread of those cultural elements = cultural diffusion.
  

Explanation §2.3 - Culture

• Cultural diffusion = the spread of cultural elements.
  
• Important ways of cultural diffusion are trade and warfare.
• Starting somewhere in the 15th century, western countries conquered regions around the world and made them colonies. What is a colony?
• A colony = a country that is being controlled by and belongs to another country.
• The western rulers forced the native people to learn their language, take over their religion, etc.
• Even now, when most colonies have become independent, former rulers still play a large role (for example India & the UK).

Explanation §2.3 - Culture

• A culture never stays the same. New words, fashion, hypes, etc. all come and go.
• Cultural diffusion = spread of cultural elements
• Cultural blending = elements from other cultures are used criss-cross and adjusted.

• Cultural elements blend in three ways:
  

1. Mass media enrich cultures (for example: films, TV, social media).
2. Migration brings cultural elements to other countries (for example: Indian curry is the most popular meal in England).
3. Tourists influence the culture of the country they visit and vice versa.

The culture that has the largest influence worldwide is...

1. the English culture
2. the French culture
3. the American culture
4. the Chinese culture

Explanation §2.3 - Culture

• The culture that has the largest influence worldwide is the American culture.
• The worldwide influence of the USA is called Americanization.
• Things are copied: T-shirts, hamburgers, McDonalds, Coca-Cola.
• Ideas are also copied: standing up for yourself, making as much money as possible and consuming more and more things.
• Americanization makes some people angry, because it displaces traditions.

Do the exercises of §2.3

• If you have a question, raise your hand.
• Finish the exercises (if you're not finished by the end of the lesson, it'll be homework.
• When done early: make summary of §2.3.

• When your online workbook does not work:

1. Do the exercises in workbook and mail me a picture of it.
2. Make a summary of §2.3 and mail it to me.

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Do the exercises of §2.3

• If you have a question, raise your hand.
• Finish the exercises (if you're not finished by the end of the lesson, it'll be homework.
• When done early: make summary of §2.3.

• When your online workbook does not work:

1. Do the exercises in workbook and mail me a picture of it.
2. Make a summary of §2.3 and mail it to me.

Planning

• Next week Tuesday January 12: geo lesson, no homework.
  

What did you learn this lesson?