Cultural geography

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Chapters: Cultural imperialism, Globalization, Colonialism, Ethnocentrism, Civilization, Fatherland, Homeland, Cultural diversity, Proto-globalization, Cosmopolitanism, Cultural assimilation, Truce term, Westernization, Psychogeography, Intercultural competence, Cultural landscape, Earth in culture, Pure blood theory in Korea, List of music areas in the United States, Settler colonialism, Sexuality and space, Global citizens movement, Cultural tourism, Transculturation, Children's street culture, Spatialization, Cultural identity, Genius loci, Common Ground, Neogeography, Sense of place, Cultural region, Cultural practice, Cultural area, Spirit of place, Ian Nairn, Desire path, Deglobalization, Auto-segregation, Rural crafts, Vernacular culture, Topophilia, Cultural mapping, Down Your Way, Deep map, Cultural travel, Possibilism, Pan-Caribbean, Outpost, Revenge of the cradle, Cultural leveling. Excerpt: Globalization refers to the increasing unification of the world's economic order through reduction of such barriers to international trade as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas. The goal is to increase material wealth, goods, and services through an international division of labor by efficiencies catalyzed by international relations, specialization and competition. It describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through communication, transportation, and trade. The term is most closely associated with the term economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, the spread of technology, and military presence. However, globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural, political, and biological factors. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation. An aspect of the world which has gone through the process can be said to be globalized. Against this view, an alternative approach stresses how globalization has actually decreased inter-cultural contacts while increasing the possibility of international and intra-national conflict. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "globalization" was first employed in a publication entitled Towards New Education in 1930, to denote a holistic view of human experience in education. An early description of globalization was penned by the founder of the Bible Student movement Charles Taze Russell who coined the term 'corporate giants' in 1897, although it was not until the 1960s that the term began to be widely used by economists and other social scientists. The term has since then achieved widespread use in the mainstream press by the later half of the 1980s. Since its inception, the concept of globalization has inspired nume