Friday's Notes

     We took quite a few notes Friday, so I'm just going to paraphrase what I wrote. Geographers study why customary ideas, beliefs, and values of a people produce a distinct culture in a particular place. A culture's values derive from language, religion, and ethnicity. The second element of culture is the production of material wealth, such as food, clothing, and shelter needed to survive and thrive. Scale, space, and connections help geographers explain why similarities among places and regions don't result from coincidence. Scale is the relationship between the portion of the Earth being studied and the Earth as a whole. Globalization is a force that involves the world and results in making something worldwide in scope. Globalization of economy was created by transnational corporations, called multinational corporations. These corporations research, operate facilities, and sell products in multiple countries. Recession began in 2008 this involved home buyers in the U.S. to store clerks in Japan, and they all were caught in a web of falling demand and lack of credit (as in credit score).