Global Villages Part II
Register to take the Global VillagesOn this site, Global Villages are representatives of the eleven dominant culture regions, as designated by cultural geography maps More Part II Course, which introduces you to four more Global Villages, also known as dominant cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static regions. The Global Villages courses on this site are both historical and cultural in content because it is difficult to discuss one without the other. Geographic location also has an undeniable impact on culture and cultural adaptations. Therefore, Cultural Geography, today, divides the world’s land masses into eleven (11) separate and dominant cultural regions.
This website refers to each of those eleven culture-regions as Global Villages, because our globalized world is both connected and interdependent, as neighboring villages have always been.
In reality, there are thousands of cultural regions across the globe. However, due to colonialismthe policy of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, exploiting it economically More, tribal conflicts, wars, ethnic cleansingthe mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society - think the Holocaust--mass slaughter of Jews by the Nazis in WWII More, regional disasters, and mass immigrationthe action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country from a previous home country More over time, nearly every region has changed in cultural makeup from its humble beginnings.
Lessons for Global Villages Part II are: Austral-European Global Village, European Global Village, Sino-Japanese Global Village and Southeast Asia Global Village.
Click the “Take this Course” button on this page to get started studying the second series of Global Villages. See how they fit into today’s global villagea place in the world where your ancestor may have lived,  the world is divided into cultural areas, each area designated as a global village, see the Global Villages Map. cultural puzzle of the world.
Completion of all three Global Villages courses earns a Certificate.