The filmmakers present a 12-step program to establish the world’s newest country: South Sudan.
What does a state need to have to be politically viable? If you were to start your own country, what would you need to do? This isn’t just a hypothetical question since South Sudan is currently undergoing this process and having to answer these questions.
Tags: South Sudan, political, sovereignty, Africa, territoriality, states, unit 4 political.
See on www.nytimes.com
Months have gone by since the last of the grisly mass killings that have marked the conflict’s darkest moments.
Cartels are still fighting each other, but they are no longer taunting the military and the police by doing it in such a blatantly public manner. Drug-related homicides are stable (and alarmingly high) at 12,000 per year but less in the border cities and more in the northern interior. The cartels are trying to avoid engaging the military, seeing that “spectacular acts of violence only bring more pressure to bear on them.”
See on www.washingtonpost.com
“A visualization of migration flows”
This is a great way to visualizing global migration patterns. Where are people migrating to Brazil coming from? What countries are Brazilians migrating to? Here are the answers to these types of questions for every country.
Tags: migration, population, statistics, visualization, unit 2 population.
See on peoplemov.in
Get the inside edge on the stories that connect Americans to the world — in your ear every week.
This video explains why geography teachers should be interested in Latitude News given it’s desire to show how global stories have regional impacts. They often have interesting perspectives on global stories that makes the geographic linkages explicit. They are currently raising funds to expand their reach.
See on www.kickstarter.com
Emphasizing the importance of protecting the nation’s global image, marketers at the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton Strategies, Inc.
I’ve got nothing but love for the good people of Alabama, but this spoof from the Onion is great.
See on www.theonion.com
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 …
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
