Human geography aims to tell the story of people and the places they are connected to. How have me shaped the world and how has the world shaped me? In this project I will show the relationship between me and world，and tell you about my "geography". I will choose the theme of culture to discuss my "geography". "Culture is a shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life" (Knox et. al, 2013). Culture can be demonstrated by things, ideas, practices and processes. Culture is a central concept in geography. Through the accumulation of time, more and more culture occur in our society. There are different culture between each country and there also have the different culture between provinces. Culture system has a great influence on our society. It affects our personality, living habit and concept. At the same time, globalization also affects the cultural communication between different countries. Places shape culture and culture shapes places. Culture has produced in different parts of characteristics of human, at the same time, different culture makes the different place. I will through language, food, building and festival to discuss my "geography".
Reference
Knox, P., Marston, S., Imort, M., & Nash, A. (2013). Mapping cultural identities. In Human geograohy (4th ed.).
Geography is not just places. Geography is how humans interact and impacts places. China has the long time history and through the time people created huge cultural traits. I was born in China. There are many type of Chinese food. Each region of the cuisine is also different. We have a Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Shanghai cuisine and so on. I was born in Anhui province. Anhui cuisine partial salty, dark color. And Anhui people are very simple and enthusiasm. When I was 12 years old, I followed my family came to shenzhen. Shenzhen is in southern China. Shenzhen has a local language which is cantonese. When I first time come because of the language. so it is difficulty in communication with my friends. But the shenzhen people are very friendly, they are not exclusive. so I have lots of friends in Shenzhen. Because of the language environment, although I'm not fluent in cantonese, but listening is no problem. Guangdong cuisine taste partial light. and I went to the restaurant with my family we can not adapt to it, but now my tastes have become more and more light. and Shenzhen is a electronic city. In huaqiang north street, there are all kinds of electronic products. Foxconn group is a shenzhen famous electronic products manufacturers. Here are some apple products production in here.When I was in university, I came to Canada. Go abroad for me is novel. The different cultural is big problem for me. Such as food, language, lifestyle and social aspects. When I came to Vancouver, i like the temperature, the fresh air. But I miss home food and my family. also the language barrier makes me homesick. Slowly, I adapt to the environment, more and more like the city of Vancouver.
Interconnect
The formation of a culture can be said by human. Through our activities, and the accumulation of time has formed many aspects of culture. Culture affects us, at the same time we also affects it and let it update. There are the connection between each other. Globalization make each countries more closer. I'm from China and in order to study abroad that I understand Canadian culture. When I come back to china I feel in-adaptation. At the same time I was bring the Canadian culture back to China. I was share the food culture of Canada with my parents, even make the steak for them. At that time I can say I change my home culture.
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