GEG 100 ONLINE! Cultural Geography Review Exercises - Chapter 13

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ANSWERS

Question 1

 EXPLAIN:

A. U.S.A. not a union of independent states

B. International is really interstate

C. Interstate highways are really intrastate

D. Nationalism is loyalty to one’s nation

E. Patriotism is loyalty to one’s state

 

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Question 2

1. True/False Irredentism is a movement by a minority ethnic group to break off from a country and form their own separate state.

2. True/False Irredentism can occur when a nation extends beyond the state in which they are the majority and overlaps into a neighboring state in which they are a minority.

3. The Kurdish region is more properly considered a national homeland, not a state.

4. True/False In contrast with nations, states are cultural regions based on actual or mythological common ancestry.

5. True/False To be a nation, the common ancestry of the people must be real and not just mythological.

6. If the Shia government in Iran tried to "reclaim" the Shia region of southern Iraq on the basis of a common national religion, the situation would best be described as irredentism, not ethnonationalism.

7. In Iraq under President Saddam Hussein, a minority nation was the dominant power and the majority nation was oppressed.

8. True/False A nation will often consider its ancestral territory a part of its homeland, even if they no longer occupy it.

9. True/False Jews and Palestinians have separate homelands within the state of Israel.

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Question 3

 Select the word from the list below that BEST applies to the scenarios that follow. Do not use a word more than once.

culture cultural-landscape nation State nation-state

cold war irredentism balkanization devolution acculturation

transculturation centripetal force centrifugal force coup d'etat

1. The Kurds [map].
2. United States, Mexico, Kenya, Russia, etc.
3. Japan [figure].
4. Nearly 80 percent of the people of India practice the Hindu religion.
5. There are over 1500 different languages spoken in India. [map]
6. Bosnia, once a part of Yugoslavia, fights and wins its independence. [map]
7. A military general overthrows the elected government of Sierra Leone in western Africa.
8. Learned behavior.
9. Scotland and Wales now have their own parliaments and are making more decisions for themselves with less influence from London.
10. Vojvodina is an area of Yugoslavia that borders Hungary and contains a large number of Hungarian speakers. The country of Hungary has threatened military intervention if the government of Yugoslavia mistreats them.
11. As European Americans settled the United States, their language and customs replaced those of the indigenous Amerindians.
12. During the 1970s and 1980s the United States armed the UNITA rebels in the southwest Africa country of Angola, while the Soviet Union armed the Marxist government of Angola.
13. Houses, roads, fields, plantations, cities.
14. The Spanish language spoken in Mexico is a mixture of Spanish and many Amerindian words.

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Question 4

 Select one of the following components of culture that is best described by the examples that follow:

A. Material Culture
B. Social Institutions
C. Attitudes Toward the Unknown
D. the Arts
E. Language

1. mosque
2. parliament
3. chopsticks
4. Spanish
5. ballet

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Question 5

 Define the following terms and apply them to examples from the readings on Iraq

1. irredentism
2. balkanization
3. devolution
4. centrifugal force
5. centripetal force
6. ethnonationalism
7. nation
8. state
9. nation-state
10. secession

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