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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Sunday granted women the right to vote and run for elected office, the biggest change in a decade for women in the puritanical kingdom.
The progress for women's rights only highlights how much more work needs to be done on that front. Why is Saudi Arabia changing? Will the voters in 2015 be able to drive themselves to the polls? Will the voters be stigmatized for exercising their legal rights? 
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This week, a committee of six scientists (including Dr Enzo Boschi, formerly president of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and one government official, whose role was to advise…...
To what degree to we rely on science? This trial has the potential to set a very harmful precedent should scientist not be able to mitigate disasters.
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The region isn’t just rednecks and catfish. But you wouldn’t know it from reality TV.
Some say that "perception is reality." How regions, cultural and places are portrayed within the media has a powerful influence on shaping our perceptions of place and culture. Can you thing of an example where a cultural group was grossly misrepresented by a TV show or the media? How does the media influence YOUR global perception?
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Survey results show that Americans are the most likely to say parents should pressure children more about studies, and Chinese are most likely to say they should do so less.
Culture isn't just one aspect of society, but one that often cut to the core of social interactions and institutions. Granted these are opinions that each society has about itself, so we'll take the numbers with a grain of salt. How is education, parental roles and student expectations are a part of culture? How (and why) do these factors change from palce to place?
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SLOVAKIA needs migrants to meet the needs of its labour market, but government officials have made it clear that Slovakia will still expect migrants to “fully integrate." What is the different between cultural assimilation and acculturation? Why is Slovakia maintaining this cultural stance? How will this impact Slovak society and immigrants? Is this a good plan?
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While the American public has grown increasingly diverse in the last decade, black and Hispanic-Americans remain underrepresented in visits to U.S. national parks, according to a new report.
What factors help toexplain the differences in National park visitations between? What does this say about the United States from a cultural perspective?
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Authorities use Google Earth to crack down on illegal activities.
A great clip to discuss geospatial technologies, privacy and governance. This could also be used to discuss urban political geography and city planning. How is this issue cultural? What are your opinions on the controversy?
Matthew Rowland's curator insight,
April 18, 2013 12:37 AM
Cool talking about the possible contraversies associated with google earth 
Tori Sloan's curator insight,
April 21, 2017 12:22 PM
This video discusses political geography because it deals with how the government is working with the people and using technology. My opinion is that it is creative how these people thought to use google earth in this way.
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More info: http://improveverywhere.com/2009/01/14/no-pants-2k9/ Facebook page: http://facebook.com/improv.everywhere 1,200 New Yorkers ride the subway withou...
This humorously points out a powerful reality...social norms are contingent upon place and as you go from place to place, the normative expectations that many impose upon us also change. Socialization and behaving "culturally appropriate" is an act of navigating these dynamic norms. Place yourself in the video: 1)how would you react as a spectator? 2) how would you feel at the prospect of being a participant? Why?
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In a converted apartment building in Chinatown, five adults and seven children blend traditional values and rituals with modern roles and responsibilities.
This article from the New York Times by Sarah Kramer leads to many cultural question worth exploring. How does migration impact the culture of families? How is culture maintained and reproduced? Why is maintaining cultural connection so vital to these families?
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A Web site’s goal is to raise awareness of forced labor and its ties to consumer products.
The geography of commodities need to be explored. This NYTimes article explains how the site: www.slaveryfootprint.org shows how slavery is a part of many everyday products sold in the developed world.
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What an Idea Sir ji....Alternative to Population Control :) -JAGJIT...
Population growth and technological developments in India. This commercial is obviously a making light of serious issues, but does it have a point? Can technology and infrastructural development actually have an impact on population growth? Speculate a to why that might be. Some more discussion on the video and topic can be found at: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/12/indian_company_markets_cell_phones_as_birth_control
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Credits: European Space Imaging (EUSI)...
One of the great landscapes showing the human-environmental interaction so vividly. This image always reminds me of Deryck Holdsworth's lectures at Penn State about Venice and the urban historical geographies of trade, commerce and commodities. Via Richard Petry
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The 25th Burning Man festival, with a theme of "Rites of Passage," took place Aug. 29 to Sept. 5, 2011, 120 miles outside Reno, Nev., in the Black Rock Desert, its home since 1990.
Counter-cultural festivals, alternative spiritualities and monuments to impermanance. Why do festivals like this attract so many? What does it culturally say about the participants and the society they leave behind?
Donald Dane's comment,
December 10, 2013 10:21 AM
A CRAZY HIPPY EVENT HELD IN THE DESERT OF NEVADA. ill be going next year though looked out of this world. this land has a very unique shape and can be seen from google earth as this perfect circle formation.
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November 9, 2014 9:40 PM
This article shows the 25th Burning Man Festival held in its usually location. A true cult following.
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Surplus of males caused by preference for sons means poor subsistence farmers have no chance of finding a mate...
One-child policy, gender preference, rural-urban divide in modernizing China...the list of applications goes on.
Liam Michelsohn's curator insight,
October 21, 2013 7:33 PM
I don’t understand how China could kill Chinese girl’s baby’s and not see 20 years down the road how that would affect there country. Even if it’s the family doing it because the boys can work and help the family eat, the government should have created job opportunities for girls motivating the poorer families to raise there children equally. Maybe they wanted to thin overpopulation in china so they skipped a generation, it seems horrible but empires have done terrible things in history to maintain power. 
Kenny Dominguez's curator insight,
November 20, 2013 6:23 PM
This was going to happen anyways because china having that one child rule was going to imbalance the population more males less females. Those rules being in place family members were forced to have boys because they would be the one to take over and inherent the land its parents left them. If they would have a girl they that land will go to the husbands family and plus boys would be the favorite child because they can work much faster than what a girl would. That being said the girls would be given up or killed. Now china has millions of males and little females. Which makes it difficult for the males to get married and have children of their own. The ratio to males to females is six to one talk about crazy. But now that china has allowed a family to have two children instead of one. Now over the years we will see and increase in females and as well as males because of the imbalance of the country. But china allowing to have more than one kid will come at a price because that is more people they have to maintain and china already being overpopulated will make it even worse for them.
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Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No 'Ground Zero Mosque' - 08/16/10...
There was quite a firestorm in 2010 about the prospects of an Islamic community center being built in Manhattan, close to Ground Zero. This is one man's opinions of the subject. In what ways do you agree with him? In what ways do you disagree with him? What about culture and place makes this issue garner so much attention?
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A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore) who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's (Jamie Lee Curtis) niece, Rac...
Such a horribly cliched (and inaccurate) portryal of Latin American cultures in a commodified Disney-fied way. How many inaccuracies do you notice? Is there any harm in these protrayals?
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