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Uniformities and Globalization - popular culture Global McDonald and Pizza Hut, Coca-cola..Polo Shirt, Nike Air. Taste of China (fast Chinese food) Popular Culture - diffuses rapidly, drive-through to-go... auto culture.
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Uniformities and Globalization - popular culture • Global McDonald and Pizza Hut, Coca-cola..Polo Shirt, Nike Air. • Taste of China (fast Chinese food) • Popular Culture - diffuses rapidly, drive-through to-go... auto culture. • 38,000 shopping malls, Mall of America, Woodfield Mall in Chicago, King of Prussia in Philadelphia. • Popular culture is commercialized culture. • chain stores (book store), cinemas, Kinkos • Wal-Marts, K-Marts, Sears,.. • Regional Emphasis • uneven distr. of classical town names (7.31) suggest that no all expressions of popular culture are spatially uniform. • 7.32 a.TV viewers, b. Snack Nuts c. Fraternal Orders d. Smoking Chapter 7-3
Vernacular Regions • Figure 7.34 - the generalized consensus regions based on an understood sense of place, derived from current population and landscape characteristic as well as on historical differences that impart distinctive regional behaviors and attitudes.