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This more clearly shows the regional restructuring of the global economy than just about anything I've ever seen, especially manufacturing. The 8 largest and busiest ports in the world are all in East or Southeast Asia (and 11 of the top 13). A quick glance at the historical charts will show that most of these were relatively minor ports that have exploded in the last 20 years.
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Laxmi's story of being kidnapped and trafficked in Nepal is not an isolated case but, as this graphical account shows, things are not always what they seem.
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Teaching about human trafficking and child slavery can be very disconcerting and uncomfortable. How much of the details regarding these horrific situations is age-appropriate and suitable for the classroom? The BBC is reporting on events with sensitive stories to both give a human face to the story, while protecting the identity of under-aged victims (to read about the production of this comic, read Drawing the News.) I encourage you to use your own discretion, but I find this comicbook format an accessible, informative and tasteful way to teach about human trafficking in South Asia to minors. It is a powerful way to teach about some hard (but important) aspects of globalization and economics. As geographer Shaunna Barnhart says concerning this comic, "It moves from trafficking to child labor to pressures for migration for wage labor and the resulting injustices that occur. There's differential access to education, gender inequality, land, jobs, and monetary resources that leads to inter- and intra-country trafficking of the vulnerable. In the search for improved quality of life, individuals become part of a global flow of indentured servitude which serves to exploit their vulnerabilities and exacerbate inequalities and injustice. Nepali children 'paid' in food and cell phones that play Hindi music in 'exchange' for work in textile factories - cell phones that are themselves a nexus of global resource chains and textiles which in turn enter a global market - colliding at the site of child labor which remains largely hidden and ignored by those in the Global North who may benefit from such labor." Tags: Nepal, labor, industry, economic, poverty, globalization, India. 
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April 24, 9:03 AM
Where is Human Rights Watch? Human trafficing is a crime to humanity!! Delete the scoop?
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Two Yale architects pose the question in an ambitious research project. "Hsiang and Mendis have increasingly come to believe that the only way to study and plan for our urban planet is to conceptualize its entire population in one seamless landscape – to picture 7 billion of us as if we all lived in a single, massive city." Delete the scoop?
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When horse meat was discovered in beef hamburgers in Ireland last month, governments, corporations and regulators assured a panicked public that it was complete Tags: food, agriculture, consumption, unit 5 agriculture, globalization, agribusiness.
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Just what is in our food anyway? This scandal reveals how removed comsumers are from the production of the foods that they purchase. As these commodity chains become longer and more complex, food safety appears to take a back seat to profit margins. 
benj's comment,
February 28, 6:37 PM
Some people choose to become vegetarian because they found out various disturbing details about the meats they ate. Some people may even shift toward being vegan because they figure that other animal derived foods such as eggs and dairy products share these nasty details.
chris tobin's comment,
February 28, 6:42 PM
I do know people who have become vegetarians because of these reasons you state. Cargill and Tyson are to blame too for taking advantage of the industry....people who work for them have to make a living and have little choices or they get fired....animals do not move around much and its like an assembly line....Recommend YOU TUBE video 'Food Incorporated' ....there are some others
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March 7, 8:12 PM
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Tea plucking machines are threatening the livelihoods of tea pickers in the Indian state of Assam, reports Mark Tully.
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This is yet another example of the uneven impacts of globalization. 
David Ricci's comment,
April 28, 12:51 PM
Contrary to the two comments above I believe that if they want the current system to work they need to make their team seem even more upper-class. If they stress the quality of their product enough to make it seem upper-class they can sell to an entirely different market. Obviously if they try to compete with the general tea leaf market they will not succeed because the average person with an average salary would rather pay for the cheaper tea. If they sell to a different market then they just might be able to preserve their way of running the operation. Now, I don’t agree with their methods or disagree because it is not my place to judge, but unless they totally redesign their product for to sell to the wealthy, they will not survive. This method of picking is time consuming and costly, and as we have all seen with automotive in Detroit Michigan machines can save enough money and time to put thousands of workers without jobs. In a competing market even after 50 years of the same way of running things, you have to be crazy not to at least entertain the thought of mechanizing some parts of the tea picking process.
Max Krishchuk's comment,
April 30, 10:23 AM
This article is very interesting because it addresses two main points: culture and economy. As I was reading through the article, I thought that the estate owners actually wanted to reduce their workforce and put in machines. I was surprised to learn that the owners actually want to keep the workers, because the quality of their tea is much better. For economic reasons, it would seem smarter for the owners to give the machines the work of the laborers because it would save them a lot of money. For cultural reasons, it would seem smarter for the workers to leave because they do not want to be portrayed as “coolies”. While I do not know the meaning of the coolie term, it seems like it is a stereotype that is given to tea plant workers. I think that it is important for the workers to keep their jobs because it would show the world that there are people in India and elsewhere that want to truly help out their workers and for their workers to have a good life. While it seems that many people do not want to work there because of the stereotype that would be given to them, I think it would still be better than not having a job and a future.
Brianna Simao's comment,
April 30, 10:29 PM
Like David said, in order for the company to stand strong they need to reach out and advertise to a higher class. If they sell to the wealthier portion of the world they could continue to have enough money to pay their workers a deserving amount for the tedious work they must do. This could potentially bring in more workers because of the high income. I do think it is good that they keep their reputation of producing high quality tea instead of giving into the high demand and competition of other tea companies who do use machines to harvest the leaves, which include the stalks.
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Elevated levels of nitrogen dioxide pop out over certain shipping lanes in observations made by the Aura satellite between 2005-2012. The signal was the strongest over the northeastern Indian Ocean.
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February 19, 10:37 PM
The Straits of Malacca show up as a highly affected band - and this from traffic that is not even bound for, or related to, Malaysia. Delete the scoop?
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Dandies in Congo, emos in Iraq, electro-hillbilly truckers in Japan. No matter how hard life can be, people carve out original ways of living.
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Cultural groups are different around the world, but so are the sub-altern cultural expressions of those who feel that they are on the fringes of society. I remember seeing the emo kids in Mexico City (one of the groups listed) congregate at the same metro station in 2005 and was fascinated by the dynamics between the subculture and the dominant culture. Given the prevalent of machismo and Catholicism in Mexico, the cultural dynamics between the groups was incredibly tense. This is an interesting glimpse into foreign counter-cultures. Tags: culture, globalization, popular culture, unit 3 culture. 
Treathyl Fox's comment,
February 8, 11:20 AM
P.S. The guy in the top photo reminded me of my dad. He was always a sharp-dressed man! :)
Seth Dixon's comment,
February 12, 10:37 PM
I appreciate it! Your dad must've been one classy man back in the day...I wish that we modern pop culture wasn't so slobby. I love dressing up.
John Dyhouse's comment,
February 25, 11:35 AM
Interesting cultures showing that people have a need to identify with their peers to be one step ahead of the crowd, I guess
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"A basic truth about the cultural geography of the California border [is this]—two very different city-building traditions come crashing into each other at one of the most contentious international boundary lines on the planet. In this collision, in the shocking contrast of landscapes, lies one critical ingredient of the border’s place identity."
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As a geographer native to the San Diego region (with family on both sides of the border), I found this article very compelling. Relations across the border are economic, cultural and political in nature, and the merger of those varied interests have led to an uneven history of both cooperation and separation. Herzog analyses three distinct factors that have shape the landscape of the California-Mexico border zone: urbanization, NAFTA, and global interruptions (9/11). Tags: borders, AAG, political, landscape, California, unit 4 political, Mexico. 
Ann-Laure Liéval's curator insight,
January 27, 6:29 AM
Les territoires de la mondialisation: les frontières. Une frontière qui se ferme et pourtant, une urbanisation continue mais contrastée. 
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February 7, 5:45 PM
It is interesting to see how this border has transformed from a fence to a guideline and back over time. Researchers of these two cities can learn a lot about how the events of one country affect the other country, such as in the case of 9/11. This place is also a great place to study culture because it is here where researchers can study a melding of two cultures in action. Overall, this area gives great insight into how two bordering countries affect each other politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Delete the scoop?
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China wants a railroad linking it to Thailand and on to the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar, but some international groups warn that it may put a big burden on Laos.
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Economic analyst noted in this article, “Southeast Asia is geostrategically and economically important to China, an increasingly important partner from both the trade and investment perspectives.” As China expands its influence, the benefits will probably be one-sided for rural, less developed neighbors such as Laos. 
Danielle Boucher's curator insight,
May 5, 8:10 PM
An interesting look at how one country can use another for self gains. China is planning to build a railroad that would connect it to major trading partners in Southern Asia. This would not be so bad if they were not using a nearby country as gateway to these major cities. Delete the scoop?
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The stunning drop in global child mortality is proof that poor countries are not doomed to eternal misery. Here's how it happened.
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Global health has substantially improved in the last two decades. This article explores the improvements in global health that have been made this year, and the attached interactive feature allows users to explore the changes in global health risks. Click here for the Guardian's version of this same data and interactive. Tags: medical, historical, spatial, technology, development. 
diana buja's curator insight,
December 27, 2012 3:44 AM
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.'s insight:
Global health has substantially improved in the last two decades. This article explores the improvements in global health that have been made this year, and the attached interactive feature allows users to explore the changes in global health risks. Click here for the Guardian's version of this same data and interactive.
vimlesh kumar's comment,
December 27, 2012 4:05 AM
Hi, Great to see a new list of top travel blogs. With over 8000 uniques per month, I feel mine should be in there somewhere. Could you take a look at http://www.honeymoonpackagesindia.org.in/ ? Thanks
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In this age of fast travel and instant digital communications, we tend to forget that not so long ago, distances were subjectively very different.
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This series of maps shows the great leaps and bounds that were made during the 19th century in transportation technology in the United States. This impacted population settlement, economic interactions and functionally made the great distances seem smaller. This is what many call the time-space compression; the friction of distance is diminished as communication and transportation technologies improve. Questions to Ponder: When someone says they live "10 minutes away," what does that say about how we think about distance, transportation infrastructure and time? How is geography still relevant in a world where distance appears to becoming less of a factor?
Tags: transportation, models, globalization, diffusion. 
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December 15, 2012 4:35 AM
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.'s insight:
"This series of maps shows the great leaps and bounds that were made during the 19th century in transportation technology in the United States. This impacted population settlement, economic interactions and functionally made the great distances seem smaller. This is what many call the time-space compression; the friction of distance is diminished as communication and transportation technologies improve.
Questions to Ponder: When someone says they live "10 minutes away," what does that say about how we think about distance, transportation infrastructure and time? How is geography still relevant in a world where distance appears to becoming less of a factor? " Delete the scoop?
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The Muslim Brotherhood has been gaining power in several countries since the Arab Spring. The rise of Islamist power in the Middle East is culturally and politically complex. This interactive lets the user click on selected countries to see how groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas are impacting them politically. Tags: Middle East, religion, Islam, political. Delete the scoop?
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Explore the cities and emerging urban clusters that will drive dramatic growth and demographic changes over the next generation. A McKinsey Quarterly Economic Studies article. In the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. That is reason enough to explore this global dataset with over 2,600 metropolitan areas. Delete the scoop?
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Facebook intern Paul Butler has created a detailed map of the world by mapping connections between people using the social network living in different cities.
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The disconnected portions of the this map tell us as much about the world we live in as the highly illuminated ones. Might this be a version of the "Black Marble" image that would reasonate more with today's teenagers? For the methods behind the creation of this map as well as a high resolution version of the map, see this post. Tags: social media, map, visualization. 
Louis Culotta's curator insight,
April 27, 11:39 AM
This is very cool...just like the internet map you posted. I have a seperate facebook page just to communicate back and forth to my friend nd his family in New Zealand in real time for free. 
Thomas C. Thompson's curator insight,
April 27, 8:25 PM
This is a picture of our world and the real way that we are connected in real time from Facebook. It's amazing! Share this everywhere! Delete the scoop?
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"[This video] explores the idea Western “cultural invasion” into Saudi Arabia, and satirizes Saudi views of America in the process. The influence of Western, particularly American, culture is a big, touchy topic in much of the world, with people torn between their love of Michael Jackson and their desire to patronize compatriots over foreigners. It’s about national pride and about preserving one’s own culture. For English captions (click the little 'CC' button in the bottom-right corner after pressing play). Skip to about 3:15 to see the segment on the Western 'cultural invasion' of Saudi Arabia and, appropriately, a very funny bit on attempting a 'reverse cultural invasion' of Saudi cultural in America."
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Given that Saudi Arabia's government is a strict theocratic kingdom, many people imagine that those ideas and values are representative of the general population and imagine austere and unyielding personalities. This video shows something we ratherly see in the West, local humor from Saudi Arabia that critiques their own cultural institutions. Tags: Saudi Arabia, Middle East, globalization, culture.
Louis Culotta's curator insight,
April 4, 6:39 PM
well, we all need a good laugh in the troubled world we live in. 
Jess Pitrone's comment,
April 29, 9:42 PM
Throughout the world, American pop culture is what defines us, and it is definitely what we use to define ourselves, as well. When we look to other countries, we look to see what their popular culture is like and compare it to our own. I love this video because I think that it is poking fun at both American popular culture and Saudi culture. Where American pop culture is so large and all encompassing, Saudi pop culture is small and not nearly as significant in defining its people.
When we, as Americans, see Saudi Arabians, we see a repressed culture, but just because they don’t have the pop culture that we have, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have a distinct identity. Obviously the Saudis have a distinct identity, and obviously they aren’t afraid to poke fun at what Americans think of their culture. 
Peter Siner's comment,
April 30, 9:29 AM
It seems as though throughout history there have always been tendencies for the Middle East to fall under a westernized mindset. Organizations and rulers throughout Middle Eastern history had challenged this idea. However, especially in todays society we are seeing a shift where the people of the middle east are becoming more and more accepting of westernized practices. The biggest hump however seems to be overcoming the religious boundaries that tie down the Middle East to its traditional ways. This process of westernization is not one that can be completed over night and it will most certainly be a very slow process that takes the time and effort of the people to make it happen. We are already seeing popular westernized culture integrate with the traditional culture of the middle east. With time, it is almost inevitable for the views of the western world to completely influence the people especially since the younger generations are so willing to change.
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Coordinating a meeting across time zones can be confusion logistical task and one that people rarely can do off the top of their head or consulting some resources. It is, however, fundamentally a geographic task. Our friends at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute put together this collection of 5 maps (and this time zone converter) to help global collaboration.
Louis Culotta's comment,
February 27, 3:16 PM
good info...I use a app on my phone most of the time for this info.
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The International Monetary Fund has censured Argentina for failing to supply accurate economic data, the first time the global crisis lender has taken such an action against a member.
chris tobin's comment,
February 21, 1:22 PM
The debt was paid with the IMF in 2006 but now the IMF will assist Argentina with data collection-their sovereign debt is indexed to inflation, and wonder what their international debt is
chris tobin's curator insight,
February 21, 1:37 PM
Perhaps Argentina's under-reported inflation percents is due to the fact that its sovereign debt is indexed to inflation and has deep international debt but the IMF will assist Argentina with data collection (since 2006 their debt was paid with the IMF)
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The current rise or durability of the economies of the Global South do not signal that economic geography does not matter, but that current investment has simply shifted.
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In an era where globalization has rendered distances a minor barrier to diffusion, some have erroneously concluded that geography is no longer relevant to economic development and urban planning. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but that doesn't mean that the 'old rules' of space and place aren't be re-written. This is a nice article that discusses the continued importance of spatial thinking and geography for urban planning. Tags: urban, planning, economic, urbanism, globalization, unit 7 cities. Delete the scoop?
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Get the inside edge on the stories that connect Americans to the world -- in your ear every week.
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This video explains why geography teachers should be interested in Latitude News given it's desire to show how global stories have regional impacts. They often have interesting perspectives on global stories that makes the geographic linkages explicit. They are currently raising funds to expand their reach. Delete the scoop?
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France declares war on the English language. Erin Burnett reports....
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France is famous for trying to slow the linguistic diffusion of globalization's most powerful online language (which also happens to belong to their age-old cultural and political rival). France has a commission dedicated to removing new words that have English origins since 1996 with the goal of introducing words with have linguistic roots in French. Recently then have done away with the Twitter term #hashtag to #mot-dièses. This video criticizes this cultural practice and it is also derided in this NPR article. However this does not mean that France is immune to cultural pressure to change linguistic traditions. There was been a movement to alter the term Mademoiselle on official documents with a new title that allows women the freedom to choose the form of address that they prefer (and not to force them to reveal their marital status--think Ms. vs Miss). Questions to Ponder: Why (and how) do languages change over time? Is it possible to keep a language 'pure?' Tags: language, culture, globalization, unit 3 culture, France, gender. 
John Peterson's comment,
April 30, 10:39 AM
This video shows how something as simple as a word can bring about some sort of action by a differing political and social group. While English has become the main language in the world, France seems to have a hard time accepting this fact and attempt to keep popular, worldwide, phrases from being said in their country. This petty attempt to keep French people using solely French words shows that language can be a touchy subject in some regions of the world. While this policing of words may be accepted in France, it would definitely not be accepted in other areas such as in the United States. While French civilians will accept this word policing, in the United States there is a much higher value in being able to speak in your own way and not being forced to change which words you use. This illustrates the very different social and political views and practices of different regions that may not be very acceptable in some other areas of the world.
Jess Pitrone's comment,
May 5, 5:16 PM
A war on banning American-English phrases? Obviously France didn’t get the memo about the growing global community, either that, or they are choosing to fight it tooth and nail (Whoa. Too many puns). The world today is more united then ever, whether it be economically, politically, or socially; everyone is connected somehow. We share everything; the whole world is sitting around eating sushi, wearing Northface jackets made in Bangladesh, watching their country’s version of The Voice (a show of Dutch origin), and i-chatting someone across the world. Needless to say, the world has become a very small place.
France has become known as a country that is steeped in tradition. The French are very sensitive about every part of their culture, and try very hard to preserve it. But why would they reject words that, yes, have American-English origins, but have distinct meanings across the world? I’d say that it’s just another attempt at the French to combat outside influence, and most notably, deter its society away from all things American. Let’s see how they feel the next time we change our language to include freedom fries! Ha-ha 
Sylvain Rotillon's comment,
May 5, 5:44 PM
It's not so simple ! You can't say "the French" as if everybody rejects english words. It's a national policy but in fact it's mainly a rearguard action denied everyday in the street.
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TED Talks At TEDGlobal University, Shereen El Feki shows how some Arab cultures are borrowing trademarks of Western pop culture -- music videos, comics, even Barbie -- and adding a culturally appropriate twist.
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This TED talk cleverly discusses the cultural processes of globalization by examining two examples from the Islamic world. The examples of the TV station 4Shbab and the comic book series The 99 show that all global cultural interactions don’t have to result in a homogenous “melting pot.” Local cultural forces can tap into the powers of globalized culture that can create dynamic local cultures that are both intensely local and global. Questions to Ponder: What does the speaker mean when she by refers to cultural interactions as a mesh (as a opposed to a clash or mash) of civilizations? What other examples of cultural meshes can you see that show these processes? Tags: TED, religion, culture, Islam, globalization, popular culture, unit 3 culture. 
Heather Ramsey's curator insight,
January 28, 10:21 AM
This speaker gives examples of gobalization in action, but explains how cultures adapt new concepts and ideas to fit in with their own ideals.
Adrian Bahan (MNPS)'s curator insight,
March 11, 11:59 PM
What type of diffusion is this? Also an example of ______________
Max Krishchuk's comment,
April 30, 9:44 AM
This is an interesting TED talk that centers on the integration of western culture with Arab culture. The Arab pop culture is very different from what I thought that it would be. It takes hard work to produce a culture that is modern yet still centers on Islamic foundation, but is seems like the Arab world has put in the work. The new culture is significant because that means that the people in the Arab world know what pop culture is and why it is important. The speaker says that the culture is a mesh of the old and new. She does not call it a mash or clash because there are certain parts that are being used from the West, such as superheroes and music videos, but the overall culture is centered on Islam. The people in the Middle East still learn about Islamic ideas and thought, but now get to learn about the subjects with superheroes. This is relevant in modern times and even in my life because as a Christian, I try to find movies, music, and entertainment that is different from the world. It is also hard for me to do so because there is a lot of nonsense out in the world that is portrayed as being normal.
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Through his Vanishing Cultures Project photographer Taylor Weidman documents threatened ways of life. About his work in Mongolia, he states: "Mongolian pastoral herders make up one of the world's largest remaining nomadic cultures. For millennia they have lived on the steppes, grazing their livestock on the lush grasslands. But today, their traditional way of life is at risk on multiple fronts. Alongside a rapidly changing economic landscape, climate change and desertification are also threatening nomadic life, killing both herds and grazing land."
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In times of ecological hardships and global economic restructuring, many children of nomadic herders are seeking employment out of the rural areas and in the urban environment. The cultural change that this represents is for Mongolia enormous and is captured wonderfully in this photo gallery. Pictured above are the ger (yurt) camps that ring the capital city Ulaanbaatar. Ulaanbaatar houses a permanent population of displaced nomads. During the winter, Ulaanbaatar is the second most air-polluted capital in the world due largely to coal burning. Tags: Mongolia, images, indigenous, culture, globalization.
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March 12, 6:44 PM
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This map might appear to be completely trivial and it probably is. Still, there are interesting historical and colonial patterns that can be seen in this technological culture region map. Questions to Ponder: Will there one day be a single format? When? What are barrier to that happening? What does this tell us about the extent of globalization? Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers -- the millions of people who migrate to factories in China and other emerging countries to make goods sold all over the world. Our collective understanding of modern industrialization and globalization needs to go beyond the binary of "oppressors" and "victims." This lecture explores the voices and lives of Chinese workers that we so often simply see as simply victims of a system, but are full of ambition and agency.
Tags: industry, globalization, labor, China, TED. 
Braden Oldham's comment,
May 2, 9:49 PM
The workers seem to not see their work as bad as we see it. They see it as a opportunity, bette then waht they had before.
Sarah Graham's comment,
May 3, 1:54 PM
I think that we often overlook the fact that life and culture is very different in these places. Here, the factory workers probably don't want the I-phones that they are making. We don't think about the people and how they WANT these jobs. These people want to make their life better, just like you and me.
Ryli Smith's comment,
May 5, 2:55 PM
In these Chinese factories, they don't view these jobs as harsh or poor treatment because this is better than how they would be doing back in their villages. They want these jobs so bad because they will give them a better life. Also, you have to remember that not all of these Chinese factory workers want to have an iPhone or a Coach purse or Nike shoes, because those things don't have any worth in their culture.
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A film from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, adapted from the 1958 essay by Leonard E. Read. This year's Geography Awareness Week's theme was "Declare Your Interdependence!" The GAW poster for 2012 focused on the Geography of a Pencil and this video works together nicely as a supplement to that poster. You may see the economics of capitalism and globalization in a less optimistic light than Leonard Read, but the theme of interconnectedness makes this a great resource. Delete the scoop?
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I tried to pinpoint intermodal connections at ports and noted the proximity of ports to other waterside uses like beaches and private craft marinas. Ports are facinating places. Think about how containerization has impacted the built landscapes shown in these maps.
Good way to teach geography.
I think this is perfect for my geographystudents this week. Worth to use in a study of global tradestructures.