http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20134940
Watch the clips to see what the Chinese people think of Hollywood films.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-34805470
Can the Chinese do a better Bond?
Friday 13 November 2015
Easy Jet- the rebranding player
Kaflavik, Iceland has seen a boom thanks to cheaper air travel-
then (1980s)
Now
Rebranding has had some positives and negatives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34722176
then (1980s)
Now
Rebranding has had some positives and negatives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34722176
TPP; New trade bloc on the block......
http://qz.com/519790/thought-the-tpp-was-a-big-deal-chinas-rival-free-trade-pact-covers-half-the-worlds-population/
Early October 2015- new Trade bloc formed- covering the Pacific ocean and known as the Trans Pacific Partnership, it is formed of countries that together account for 40% of global GDP.
members include.
As you can see the TPP does not include China, however China has been busy making a competitor block called RCEP.
Look at the countries involved in each- which holds the power?
Early October 2015- new Trade bloc formed- covering the Pacific ocean and known as the Trans Pacific Partnership, it is formed of countries that together account for 40% of global GDP.
members include.
As you can see the TPP does not include China, however China has been busy making a competitor block called RCEP.
Look at the countries involved in each- which holds the power?
2 children allowed now....
China; famous for its one child policy has now said 2 children are allowed. So what will the impact be?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/30/asia/china-one-child-policy-reaction/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-34664442- video at top of link
the 1 child legacy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-34697016
2 children not allowed till March 16- scroll down for 1 child policy overview.
the lion of Africa?
Ethiopia: the lion of Africa?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/20/africa/ethiopia-overview-history-culture-economy/index.html
Ethiopia has a growing economy, it has world class sports people; wonderful, unique world heritage sites like the rock hewn churches at Lalibela, but this year the harvests failed and 4.5 million of its people need food aid.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/20/africa/ethiopia-overview-history-culture-economy/index.html
Ethiopia has a growing economy, it has world class sports people; wonderful, unique world heritage sites like the rock hewn churches at Lalibela, but this year the harvests failed and 4.5 million of its people need food aid.
Thursday 22 October 2015
Disney as a TNC update
Disney to launch UK film and TV streaming service for £9.99 a month
http://gu.com/p/4dggp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger
Is the police service too white?
Theresa May criticises police over stop and search, and race record
http://gu.com/p/4dga4?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger
Diversity across Africa
Why I cannot tell 'the African story' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34508552
Tuesday 6 October 2015
Immigration levels have damaged UK cohesion! According to Teresa May
Immigration levels have damaged UK cohesion! According to Teresa May
Mrs May pledged to reduce the numbers claiming in Britain while taking in the "most vulnerable" refugees from conflict zones around the world.
She also said high migration made a "cohesive society" impossible.
Her speech was criticised by business groups, with the Institute of Directors attacking its "irresponsible rhetoric".
Net migration into the UK currently stands at a record high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March.
The Home Secretary told the Conservative Party conference Britain "does not need" net migration at current levels, saying the net economic effect was "close to zero" at best.
Monday 5 October 2015
Tuesday 22 September 2015
ISIS wiping out the history of Syria and Iraq
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/09/world/iraq-isis-heritage/
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/24/middleeast/syria-isis-palmyra-shrines/
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47340#.VgGqc99Viko
http://syriatimes.sy/index.php/don-t-miss/19309-foreign-ministry-isil-barbaric-attacks-on-syria-s-cultural-heritage-target-the-syrian-national-identity-memory
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/24/middleeast/syria-isis-palmyra-shrines/
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47340#.VgGqc99Viko
http://syriatimes.sy/index.php/don-t-miss/19309-foreign-ministry-isil-barbaric-attacks-on-syria-s-cultural-heritage-target-the-syrian-national-identity-memory
Tuesday 8 September 2015
Wednesday 22 July 2015
Turkmenistan- No smoking here please!
Turkmenistan: the health-obsessed country where nobody smokes
http://gu.com/p/4apm4?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger
So Americans are actually Siberian?!?!
One wave of migration from Siberia populated the Americas, DNA shows
http://gu.com/p/4apmd?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger
Improving quality of life in Mexico
Mexico City promises free condoms and transportation in exchange for exercise
http://gu.com/p/4apyv?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger
Thursday 16 July 2015
Indigenous Australian tourism-
Our First Australians have the longest continuing culture in the world. It is a culture that is both vibrant and unique, and which more international visitors to Australia desire to experience.
Aboriginal Australian culture is thought to be the world's longest continuing surviving culture!
An obvious target for tourism that can benefit everyone; by providing jobs and keeping the culture alive.
Aboriginal Australian culture is thought to be the world's longest continuing surviving culture!
An obvious target for tourism that can benefit everyone; by providing jobs and keeping the culture alive.
Wednesday 15 July 2015
protecting indigenous people of Bolivia
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2015/07/09/students-connect-with-their-community-roots-at-bolivias-aymara-indigenous-university/
Monday 13 July 2015
Insiders guide to Banja Luca!
images of the war that afflicted the country in the 90s
street style
Its famous for its street food and even pushed McDonald's out of the city.
Thimphu, Bhutan- land of- Chilli, cheese, alcohol, music, archery
Guide to the capital of Bhutan- Thimphu-
Art and religion are important- image of Buddha
fashion in Bhutan
Art and religion are important- image of Buddha
fashion in Bhutan
Wednesday 8 July 2015
Leave the uncontacted, uncontacted....
Scientists must let world's most isolated tribes make own decisions
Experts are warning that visiting the world's most isolated may be putting their lives and cultures at severe risk.
Tuesday 7 July 2015
The new superpowers?
Are they the new superpowers?
In the clubs
Russia and China are the only countries to be part of all five of these organisations
Membership – Five | Three | Two
UN security council
Shanghai cooperation organisation
G20
BRICS
APEC
China
France
Russia
UK
US
China
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Russia
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
South Korea
Turkey
UK
US
Brazil
China
India
Russia
South Africa
Australia
Brunei
Canada
Chile
China
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Mexico
New Zealand
PNG
Peru
Philippines
Russia
Singapore
South Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
US
Vietnam
Friday 19 June 2015
Chad bans Islamic face veil after suicide bombings
Chad bans Islamic face veil after suicide bombings- should this be allowed?
It has been done to in the face of 2 terror attacks in the last weeks, Anoter central African country DR Congo has had a ban in place for a while.
The face veil is worn by Muslim women for religious reasons but also so that they can cope with the heat in the country, which is mostly desert.
No more nutella......
If you chocolate spread- look away now!
Eating Nutella has been said in the guardian this week, to damage the environment- especially the Indonesian rainforest- which is cleared every year to grow palm oil.
BUT the company that makes it; ferrero says it is made from SUSTAINABLE palm oil.
Thursday 18 June 2015
Brazil's Belo Monte dam puts livelihood of 2,000 families at risk, prosecutors say
Construction of a massive hydroelectric dam is endangering the livelihoods of at least 2,000 families in Brazil’s Amazon jungle state of Para, according to federal prosecutors who recommend that efforts to move the residents be suspended.
the $11bn Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River has violated 55 previously agreed-to items to guarantee indigenous groups, farmers and fishermen their means of survival.
The 11,000-megawatt dam would be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric energy producer behind China’s Three Gorges dam and the Itaipu, which straddles the border of Brazil and Paraguay.
The government has said Belo Monte will be a source of clean, renewable energy and is fundamental for the economic development of the region and country.
The dam, the government has said, was designed to minimize environmental damage.
But environmentalists and indigenous groups say it would devastate wildlife and their livelihoods.
Will Havana ever open up?
Is Cuba really opening up to the western world? Will the trade embargo be lifted?
Cuba today- ‘Havana today can be a jarring collision of the antique and the nouveau’. Photograph: Walter Bibikow/JAI/Corbis
Wednesday 10 June 2015
Another language set to die out?
The San language Nluu is spoken only by 2 sisters and their 95 yr old mother, linguists are working with them to transcript and translate it before it is too late.
It is a language with 112 unique sounds and has been passed on in spoken word through the ages but never written down.
Brilliant quote from guardian article 9/6/15
"N|uu has one of the biggest speech sound inventories in the world, he added, including more than 45 click phonemes, 30 non-click consonants and 37 vowels. “Language is the most important cultural asset, so if you lose your language, you lose your culture. In Canada, there is a clear link between those indigenous people who lose their language and suicide rates. In this globalised world, local identity is essential,” Brezinger"
A second section of the article-
It is a language with 112 unique sounds and has been passed on in spoken word through the ages but never written down.
Brilliant quote from guardian article 9/6/15
"N|uu has one of the biggest speech sound inventories in the world, he added, including more than 45 click phonemes, 30 non-click consonants and 37 vowels. “Language is the most important cultural asset, so if you lose your language, you lose your culture. In Canada, there is a clear link between those indigenous people who lose their language and suicide rates. In this globalised world, local identity is essential,” Brezinger"
A second section of the article-
"Koper’s sister Katrina Esau, 82, who has received an award from President Jacob Zuma for her work to preserve San language and culture, added: “Other people have their own languages. Why must my language be allowed to die? It must go on. As long as there are people, the language must go on.”
Moscow's food revolution
Interesting article on Russia and its food. How the trade ban has impacted people in Russia.
How some western establishments like McDonald's were closed and then re-opened and how aims to create an indigenous chain came unstuck.
How some western establishments like McDonald's were closed and then re-opened and how aims to create an indigenous chain came unstuck.
Up coming TV you should watch year 12 and 13......
2 things you should watch....
Living with nomads- Kate Humble BBC2 Fridays at 9pm (episode1- 5/6/15 on Nepal, 12/6/15 on Nenets of Siberia and 19/6/15 on the Yak herders of Mongolia)
The tribe- Channel 4, Thurdays at 9pm- looks at life among the Hamar tribe in Ethiopia
Living with nomads- Kate Humble BBC2 Fridays at 9pm (episode1- 5/6/15 on Nepal, 12/6/15 on Nenets of Siberia and 19/6/15 on the Yak herders of Mongolia)
The tribe- Channel 4, Thurdays at 9pm- looks at life among the Hamar tribe in Ethiopia
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Wednesday 3 June 2015
good neighbours?
n article about how the TV show Neighbours does not reflect the diversity of the city it is sET IN- Melbourne!
Saturday 9 May 2015
BRICS update
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/series/in-the-shadow-of-the-brics
Check out this section of the Guardian lots of articles on the BRICS
Check out this section of the Guardian lots of articles on the BRICS
Sunday 3 May 2015
Cuban fury- more and more visitors expected.....
As US Cuban relations improve the country is preparing for an influx of tourists,
1950s cars still clog roads in the Cuban capital Havana.
1950s cars still clog roads in the Cuban capital Havana.
Calbuco erupts again.....
Calbuco erupts again
2,500 villagers have been told to leave their homes- this time the winds have blown the ash and gas towards the city of Cochamo.
2,500 villagers have been told to leave their homes- this time the winds have blown the ash and gas towards the city of Cochamo.
Monday 27 April 2015
Nepal quake update....
3/5/15
Death toll now pushing 7,000
People in more remote areas are still awaiting help....
Nepal's major tourist attractions- before and after-
Death toll now 4,000 and around 10,000 injured. Some communities are still isolated and cut off (see map below)
The worst quake Nepal has seen for 80 years has left many sleeping outside and in temporary shelters for a 4th night.
A big aftershock hit on Sunday causing further damage and halting aid as the airport again had to be shut.
Meanwhile helicopters have rescued 140 people from Mount Everest.
hospitals have been overwhelmed with the injured....
more facts and figures here
Death toll now pushing 7,000
People in more remote areas are still awaiting help....
Nepal's major tourist attractions- before and after-
Death toll now 4,000 and around 10,000 injured. Some communities are still isolated and cut off (see map below)
The worst quake Nepal has seen for 80 years has left many sleeping outside and in temporary shelters for a 4th night.
A big aftershock hit on Sunday causing further damage and halting aid as the airport again had to be shut.
Meanwhile helicopters have rescued 140 people from Mount Everest.
hospitals have been overwhelmed with the injured....
more facts and figures here
Sunday 26 April 2015
Slow train through Africa-
I managed to have time this weekend to catch up on a great series for you culture people
Griff Rhys Jones- slow train through Africa.
https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/slow-train-through-africa-with-griff-rhys-jones
episode 2 through North Africa is great, he visits Marrakesh then travels through Algeria and into Tunisia, some good references to culture and globalization en route- details here
Griff Rhys Jones- slow train through Africa.
https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/slow-train-through-africa-with-griff-rhys-jones
episode 2 through North Africa is great, he visits Marrakesh then travels through Algeria and into Tunisia, some good references to culture and globalization en route- details here
Canada; where Multiculturalism thrives!?
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/2013915111722311111.html
Excellent article about how Canada works as a multicultural nation....
Excellent article about how Canada works as a multicultural nation....
A look at Leicester, UK- can it really teach the world about how multiculturalism should work?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/were-all-in-this-together-how-leicester-became-a-model-of-multiculturalism-even-if-that-was-never-the-plan-8732691.html
This article tells you about Leicester's history and shows how some migrants feel about Leicester and some that can be applied countrywide.
This article tells you about Leicester's history and shows how some migrants feel about Leicester and some that can be applied countrywide.
Some more on France for year 13 culture study....
http://www.brygeog.net/uploads/7/9/8/5/7985035/globalfrance.pdf
An article on globalization and French cultural diversity
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/0642292.0031.020?rgn=main;view=fulltext A bit old (2003) but makes a point about how some French feel about Globalization
The globalization index.... shows how globalized selected countries are... look for France
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_Index
http://www.kameleo.com/wc/JEU-Ch0-MondeFranco.html
Francophone speaking nations- showing France does have global connections through language
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3325285.stm article explaining the deep roots of French secularism. Further details here
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfb4ig_france-multicultural-society-under_news an interesting video clip on multiculturalism in France
An article on globalization and French cultural diversity
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/0642292.0031.020?rgn=main;view=fulltext A bit old (2003) but makes a point about how some French feel about Globalization
The globalization index.... shows how globalized selected countries are... look for France
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_Index
http://www.kameleo.com/wc/JEU-Ch0-MondeFranco.html
Francophone speaking nations- showing France does have global connections through language
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3325285.stm article explaining the deep roots of French secularism. Further details here
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfb4ig_france-multicultural-society-under_news an interesting video clip on multiculturalism in France
check out this site, good theoretical background...
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/grade3/geograph.html
contains definitions and descriptions on theory relating to cultural diversity.
contains definitions and descriptions on theory relating to cultural diversity.
Impacts of global warming on human cultural diversity article
http://www.eolss.net/sample-chapters/c12/E1-04-03-03.pdf
As this is a report there are a lot of different sections, so you do not need to read it all but can pick relevant sections- particularly sections 4 and 5!
As this is a report there are a lot of different sections, so you do not need to read it all but can pick relevant sections- particularly sections 4 and 5!
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