University:
Eastern Kentucky University
Course:
GEO 100 | Regions and Nations of the World
Academic year:

2022
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316

Pages:

2
Author:

Prince Sampson

- - - - - - - CHAPTER 1 ASSIGNMENT 1.Why is it common to use two different concepts—nation and state—to describe political entities? - Because a nation describes a large group of people with shared socio cultural traits such as language, religion, and shared identity and a state refers to a political entity that has clear boundaries. 2. Define cultural hybridization and give an example. - Cultural hybridization is the process by which a cultural custom, item, or concept is transformed to fit the cultural context of a society that borrows it. For example, characterizing indians culture as british culture just because british founded it. 3. What is the relationship between the end of the Cold War in 1990 and economic globalization? - Because of the end to the cold war, the former communist countries of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were opened almost immediately to global trading and cultural exchange, which changed the countries immensely. 4. Explain the difference between areal differentiation and areal integration. - Areal differentiation is the geographic description and explanation of spatial differences on Earth's surface, includes physical as well as human patterns. - Areal integration is the geographic description and explanation of how places, landscapes, and regions are connected, interactive and integrated with each other. 5. How does the UN measure gender inequity? Explain why this is a useful metric. - It measures with a scale from 0 to 1. As lowest being Sweden highest being Yemen. It exposes differences in the distribution of achievements between women and men. It measures the human development costs of gender inequality. 6. Explain the difference between GDP and GNI. - Gross Domestic Product (GDP): the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy - Gross National Income (GNI): it is now used in preference to gross national product (GNP). The total value of goods and services produced within a country together with the balance of income and payments from or to other countries. 7. What are the two subcategories of Islam? Describe the geographies for each. - Shi'a Islam: consistutes 11% of the total Islmaic population and represents a majority in Iran and Southern Iraq. - - - - Sunni Islam: founded from Arab-speaking lands of north Africa to Indonesia 8. What is PPP and why is it useful? - PPP is purchasing power parity; a comparison of the purchasing power between the two countries. It’s helpful because it is also a method of reducing the influence of inflated currency rates by adjusting a local currency to a composite baseline of one U.S. dollar based upon its ability to purchase a standardized "market basket" of goods 9. Describe the differences between counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency. - Counterterrorism: action taken against terrorism. - Counterinsurgency: military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries. 10. What is cultural imperialism? Give an example. - It's the active promotion of one cultural system over another, such as the implantation of a new language, school system or bureaucracy. For example, historically, this has been primarily associated with European Colonialism.