About this Page:
Finally! The last of the diffusion pages. I know that the AP course articulation has cultural diffusion in Unit 4, but I introduce it earlier in Unit 1 because this entire class is about culture and how it impacts the landscape. When we talk about how that culture ended up there, cultural diffusion is always at the start of those conversations, whether you cover agriculture, development, or religion/language as your second unit. It fits nicely when covering the topic of Movement and the 5 Themes. My blue characters at the top diffused from Freepik, from a one RawPixel!
My top panel is inspired by one of my favorite students of all time (studying to be a doctor at UCLA). He is a Sikh and taught me so much about the people and religion. I remember FaceTime calling him into the class lecture when he was in India for an extended time, and didn’t want to miss my class. There he was, in front of the class, asking questions on the iPad screen-it was surreal. We had a coffee this summer, as he came back home to study for his MCATS. He screenshot images from his MCAT review book and the pages looked ripped from AP Human Geography (Demographic Transition, fertility rates, mortality, migration, urbanization, globalization). He said that Human Geography definitely paid off. He is currently studying global health and will do amazing things for this world. I am so proud of him. While he made the argument for Sikhism being a universalizing religion, I think there are definitely some elements of the faith that retain ethnic traits that make it diffuse via relocation, i.e. the Dastaar and Kirpan. This page is for you J.C.!
My tour guide and culture girls come from a former image my illustrator, Dan Harris, created. I was inspired by the ignorant man from Illinois who argued with the woman who wore a Puerto Rico flag shirt (and then the officer who didn’t help her)-tsk tsk. I screen shot La Catedral from Google Street View and made it useable in Autodesk Sketchbook. Here is the original:
