Ethnicity and Political Geography
Essential Skills1. Explain how geographers assess the spatial and place dimensions of cultural groups in the past and present to assess language, religion, ethnicity and gender.
2. Explain how globalization is influencing cultural interactions and change. 3. Discuss how regional patterns ethnicity contribute to a sense of place, enhance place making, and shape the global cultural landscape. 4. Describe how ethnicity and gender reflect cultural attitudes that shape the use of space (e.g. women in the workforce, ethnic neighborhoods.) 5. Explain how language, religion, ethnicity, and gender are essential to understanding landscapes symbolic of cultural identity. 6. Analyze and assess the distribution of ethnicity on maps. 7. Describe how colonialism, imperialism and trade help to shape patterns and practices of culture. 8. Explain the structure of the contemporary political map. 9. Explain the concept of a modern nation-state in Europe. 10.Describe how colonialism and imperialism led to the spread of nationalism and influenced contemporary political boundaries. 11. Evaluate the geopolitical forces that influence the contemporary political map. 12. Explain how political power is expressed geographically as control over people, land, and resources (eg. Heartland, rimland, and organic theories.) 13. Evaluate the nature and function of international and internal boundaries. 14. Analyze the spatial relationships between political systems and patterns of culture and economy. 15. Compare and contrast forms of governance. 16. Explain how the political, economic, cultural, and technological elements of globalization challenge state sovereignty.Apply concepts of centrifugal and centripetal forces at the national scale. |
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