Paper 9
Citizenship in a global city
Literature: Human Geography 5th Edition, Landscapes of Human Activities, Jerome
(university of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Fellmann. Arthur Getis (San Diego State
University). Judith Getis, pg 33-92
How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and culture
of the earth’s surface. An example is the solidarity Poland to support the right to work for people.
Ukraine
Christabel Mwango Chanda
9/12/2013
Mwangochristabel33@gmail.com
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onsidering the new world order that countries are forming, becoming a new citizen in
another country has tests and trials for ones solidarity to both the new ground and the
former so as not to be clothed with unknown espionage terms that will be difficult to
understand. So knowledge of laws of citizenry and Solidarity between Experiences In the
globalized cities will be the only weapon one can use to stand the ground, to defend himself,
to proclaim what one believes in and better still use it to remain loyal to both actions.
Certainly there is a strong relationship between ctizenship and solidarity. In a successful
society, one would suspect that, the demands on citizens, if they are good citizens, comes
from some common ground of understanding values thus would seem to create a sense of
solidarity among the members of society, more so if the common values are strongly held
among the members of
the group,perhaps less so in a society that is
more
diverse
without such a clear, single set of values
and practices.
Human Geography deals
with the world as it is and
I will begin
by exploring the roots and meaning
what
the
world
as
it
might
of culture,
establishing the observed ground
be made to be. It places
rules and
laws of spatial behaviour and
emphasis
on
people,
what
examine
the areal varriations in patterns of
they are, where they are ,
population
distribution
and population
how
they
interact
over
change.
These set the stage for the
space and what kind of
following
separate discussions of spatail
landscapes of human use
patterns of
language,
religion,
ethnic
they
erect
upon
the
natural
distinction,
folk and popular culture. These are the
core expression land they occupy
of unity, diversity and of areal
differention among
the peoples and societies of the Earth’s
surface.
Culture is comprehensive. meaning it is transmitted within a society to succeeding
generations by immitations, instructions, examples. In short culture is not biological it is
something we learn . It has nothing to do with instincts or genes and can be broken if there is
no persistent figure to simulate and copy. Individuals acquire sets of behavior patterns and
social perceptions through the culture in which we are born and reared, but cannot learn it
all.
Age ,sex, status and occupation may dictate the aspects of the cultural whole in which an
individual becomes fully indoctrinated. The entrance of a new ‘evil’ of globalism,( new
values, new ideas, norms and strange but acceptable behavious are introduced in to society).
The existing traditions accomodate the new comer but such accommodation is not
complete,and often, maybe always the global interloppers bring new institutions, a vivid
example is ‘McDonalds’that the locals have to deal with. The insertion of these new things
can be welcomed in anyway, For example if the idea puts a threat on belief system that
disturbs the conservativeness of its welfare is not welcomed.
Understanding the spatial patterns and interactions and providing of the world views of
citizenship is my prime objective, the focus will shift to the economic and organizational
landscapes that humans have created. We will look at economic geography, economic
development, structures and patterns of a political system that influences the laws that
govern the understanding of knowledge of a citizen.
I would like to define human geography. It deals with the world as it is and what the world as
it might be made to be. It encompasses all those interests and topics of geography that are not
directly concerned with physical environment orientation. Its contents provides integretion
for all the social sciences. It also draws the attention to analyz identified subfields such as
behaviour, political, social and economic geography.
-Behaviour geography deals with psychology and economics.
-political geography deals with political science, political culture, public policy,
government patterns. The political culture of a nation influences the citizens that live in it for
example we all know that the USA is a democratic country and so every citizen is oriented in
such a way that you can not just trample them down.
-social geography deals with social things, languages of communication, religous studies
etc. I would give an example in my home counry, Zambia our social geography is so define
that even though there are 72 tribes spoken in this nation each tribe live together in one
location and even some churches are attributed to certain tribe and so on and so forth .
-economic geography deals with regional economies, national economies and the
economy of the global city.
-population geography deals with demography, statistics, urbanization rural-urbanization
and globalization at large knowing this part of geography is very important because it gives
you knowledge as to which countries are densely populated or the opposit it makes you
choose your new location wisely.
-cultural geography deals with anthropology,sociology and history of the landscape
occupied by the humans. Another vital aspect is as a citizen you just need to know the history
of certain things. In this one case I would give an example of myself, I have been livivng in
Human geography admirably serves the objective of a liberal education abroad knowledge
that every good citizen whose solidarity is to stand should know. Because one has to make
comparisons between the new order of things here and there. It helps us to understand the
world we occupy and to appreciate the circumstances affecting peoples and countries over
their own land for example the Bible land (Syria and Israel).
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The study of human geography there fore can help us make better decisions at persoanl, city,
national and global level. During my research of finding out what makes a citizen a good one
I came accross 18 (Eighteen) comprehensive but not exhaustive standards that a very good
citizen should be able to know and understand.
 How to use maps and other geographical tools and technologies to acquire, process and
deduce and also report information from a simple spatial perspective.
 How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places and environments
in a spatial context
 How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places and environments of earths
space
 The physical characteristic of human places, diferrentiating the non occupied and the
occupied .
 That people create regions to intepret earths complexity. Demarcating continents from
each other at the least
 How culture and experience influences the peoples perceptions of places and regions.
 The physical processes that shape the patterns of the earth’s surface. For example there
are places that are prone to tsunamis, floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides.
 The characteristics of spatial distribution of ecosystems on the earth, by now we all know
that there are many human factors that are not in good favor of protecting the ecosystem
to be specific China has been named the most dangerous country in the producing of
green house gases that are polluting the earths environment.
 The characteristics and distribution causes of migration of human population which can
also be due to some of the reasons I have described above.
 The characteristic distribution and complexity of cultural mossaics
 The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on the earths surface
 The process patterns and functions of human settlement
 How the forces of cooperations and conflict among people influnce the division and
culture of the earth’s surface. An example is the 1980s solidarity movement in Poland.
How human actions modify the physical environment.
 How the physical systems affect human system meaning that were the land scape seems
viable for production, people will find a way of settling there and erecting cities, making
rules and laws of how to take care of that space they have created and occupied.
 The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution and importance of resources.
 How to apply geography to interpret the past, present and future. As illustrated by the
map below.
 How to apply geography to interpret the present and future.
CONCLUSION
I hypothesize that this clash of globalism and societal solidarity is worst in countries where
the social system is based on strongly held unwavering religious beliefs and teachings.
Rwanda Northern Ireland , the middle East do not give much hope so far that solidarity and
globalism are compatible concepts, unless one society can dominate the world and impose its
new world rules, laws, regulations and standards on each and everyone which is far from
becoming anything a reality.
In a global/city solidarity can not be without knowledge and knowledge may only bw gotten
from solidarity of held belief and experiences. Global citizenship is grounded on knowing
some of the few things I have writen though not conclusive which promotes the commitment
for solidarity to a new dignity and meaning.
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