India: 5.1

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India: 5.1 part I

India: Land of differences

Goals today:
- What are the big cultural and social differences in the country?

- Religion differences in India

- What is the caste system and why causes this a high degree of social inequality?

Why do you think there are alot of cultural and social differences in India?

'Cultural mosaic'

Big cultural and social differences in India.

1. Huge country (as big as Europe)

2. Divided in six countries from British rule

3. India was divided into states - respect the differences between these people

Many spoken languages

Religions: 81% Hinduism

What is the caste system in India?

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Read: 'Religions in India' and name the important characteristics of this system.

Caste-sytem

- Every person is born in a specific caste and cannot change during live

- It determines which occupation people can choose

- Marry someone in same caste
- Disbanded in 1950 but still in practice, mostly in marriage

- People in lower caste has worst jobs

India: 5.1 part II

- Short recap of last lesson

- Continue with 5.1: land of differences

- Work on assignments

- 3 op reis: India

Lesson goals:

- Know what age structure is

- Know the difference between green and grey pressure

- Know the types of population charts and there characteristics

What is the main reason why there are so many social and cultural differences in India?

What is the second main religion in India?

1. Hindiusm
2. Islam
3. Buddhism
4. Sikhism

What is the caste-system and how many layers are there?

Age structure

•      You can show a country’s age structure using a population chart
•  each bar represents an age group
• men on the left, women on the right
  

Read: G155

- Name the three different population charts

- Write down the characteristics mentioned in the text an add a different country in the same chart. You may use google for this.

We will discuss the answers.

Pyramid

• - High birth rate
• - Fast growing population
• - Developing countries: poor

Grenade shape

• - Low birth rate
• - Slow population growth
• - More developed country

Urn shaped

• - Birth rate is falling
• - declining population or decreasing population
• - wealthy, more developed countries

Population of India

• Which shape does India have?
• India population has tripled in 60 years
• Half of the population is younger than 25 -> green pressure. -> problem?
• What could Grey pressure be?

What happens

with Indias

Population chart

over

time?

Work on assignments

Work on assignments 5.1

3,4,7,8,9,10,11 homework for Tuesday 12/3