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So God Made a (Latino) Farmer

A different perspective of Paul Harvey’s “God made a Farmer.” In reference to the foreign-owned Chrysler Corp. that showed a similar video that aired during …

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

As a cultural production this is fascinating reshaping of the original Chrysler Super Bowl commercial.  The original doubles as a tribute to a rural America of yesteryear and American labor.  This one acts as a critique on the status on Latino workers in the United States.  The audio is the same, with images that conjure out entirely different messages.

Tags: agriculture, labor, rural, unit 5 agriculture, perspective.

See on www.youtube.com

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Puerto Rico’s Battered Economy: The Greece Of The Caribbean?

With the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. and a mountain of debt, the island is facing a declining population. But those who stay insist they’re there for the long haul.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

Many Puerto Ricans have left the island as economic struggles continue to mount.  This podcast provides vivid examples of push and pull factors that lead to the individual choices of potential migrants (read the transcript or listen to the podcast).

Tags: Puerto Rico, economic, migration, podcast.

See on www.npr.org

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Booming Bhutan

Long impoverished and isolated, tiny Bhutan is finally booming. This onetime absolute monarchy has also made important democratic reforms and major improvements in quality of life.

 

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

Located on the southern edge of the Himalayas, Bhutan’s rugged topography is key to it’s economic strategy to modernize this lightly populated, less developed mountain kingdom.  Bhutan is harnessing hydroelectric energy and selling it to India, which accounts for 20% of the GDP. Today Bhutan is one the five fastest growing economies in the world.  However, the economic developed is highly uneven; 40% of the population is still engaged in subsistence farming on the limited arable land showing that there are still substantial development issues ahead.

 

Tags: South Asia, development, economic, rural, Bhutan.

See on www.foreignaffairs.com

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Foreign Subcultures You’ve Never Heard Of

Dandies in Congo, emos in Iraq, electro-hillbilly truckers in Japan. No matter how hard life can be, people carve out original ways of living.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

Cultural groups are different around the world, but so are the sub-altern cultural expressions of those who feel that they are on the fringes of society.   I remember seeing the emo kids in Mexico City (one of the groups listed) congregate at the same metro station in 2005 and was fascinated by the dynamics between the subculture and the dominant culture.  Given the prevalent of machismo and Catholicism in Mexico, the cultural dynamics between the groups was incredibly tense.  This is an interesting glimpse into foreign counter-cultures.  

Tags:  culture, globalization, popular culture, unit 3 culture.

See on www.buzzfeed.com

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Boston’s unnatural shoreline

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Today’s 100-year storm surge could be tomorrow’s high tide.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

This set of maps and articles help to explain why sea level rise is such an issue for many major metropolitan areas.  In coastal cities with substantial economic development, much of the current coastal areas where once underwater until landfill projects filled in the bay.  During storm surges (or if and when sea levels rise) these will be the first places to flood.  

Tags: disasters, water, physical, Boston, weather and climate.

See on www.theatlanticcities.com

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Rhode Island Community Profiles

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

This is a simplified Census data map viewer specifically for Rhode Island.  To see a simplified U.S. Census data at the national scale, see: http://sco.lt/7G5rur

Tags: statistics, Rhode Island, census, GIS, mapping, cartography.

See on profiles.provplan.org

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Super Bowl Is Largest Human Trafficking Incident In U.S.

When it came time for the Super Bowl, Clemmie Greenlee was expected to sleep with anywhere from 25 to 50 men a day.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

There certainly is a dark side to large sporting events. 

See on www.huffingtonpost.com

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Tweetping

Check out the twitter activity in realtime

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

What is the social media conversation like in different regions of the world?  This realtime mapping tool lets to visualize the ever-shifting world of Twitter.  In this screen shot, Europe and Africa are sleeping the Americas are buzzing with activity.  

See on www.tweetping.net

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Inside India’s pop-up city

Every 12 years, the Kumbh Mela, a centuries-old Hindu pilgrimage, temporarily transforms an empty floodplain in India into one of the biggest cities in the world.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

Hindu pilgrims from all over India flock to bathe where it the Yamuna Saraswati Rivers join with the Ganges River for a religious experience.  This is a massive undertaking where the cultural practices create migratory patterns that reshape cities because of a sacred physical geography. 

See on news.harvard.edu

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