Cultural Regions

Today we talked about cultural regions. We learned that beliefs, material traits, and social forms are ways geographers refer to culture. The word culture comes from the Latin word cultus which means "to care for." Culture is a complex meaning because "to care for" has two meanings. First is "to care about" which means to adore or worship something. Second is "to take care of" which means to nurse or look after something. Culture can also refer to small organisms such as ones under microscopes or in yogurt. Geographers also distinguish groups of people according to important cultural characteristics, describe where particular cultural groups are distributed, and offer reasons to explain the distribution. That was what our class discussion was on so there you have it and I hope next human geo class will be more spectacular.