Regions of culture
- culture is the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
- origin of words, culture, is the latin cultus, which means "to care for"
2. meanings
1. to care about
2. to care for
Geographers study both definitions of culture
- Culture: what people care about
- geographers study why the customary ideas, beliefs, and values people produce a distinctive culture in a particular place
- especially important cultural values derive from a group's language, religion, and ethnicity.
-culture: what people take care of
- second element of culture of interest is production of material wealth, such as food, clothing, and shelter they humans need in order to survive and thrive.
- scale is a relationship between the portion of the earth being studied and earth as a whole
- globalization is a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
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