Geography Homework

GEO 171 ASSIGNMENT IV: Cultural Globalization in Two Cities

This assignment concerns two cities you are now encountering in this course: London, England and Strasbourg, France. In both in modern times there has been marked immigration from poorer lands: to London from the Caribbean, to Strasbourg particularly from North Africa.

I have chosen selected pages from my books about these cities in order to neatly fit the questions posed by this assignment on cultural globalization. These chosen pages fit very nicely also with the color slides shown in class of Barbadians in London and of Maghrebians (= North Africans) in Strasbourg. I also provide a report from The Economist which would apply to London, appended at the rear of the file "England reconsidered."

The questions:

1. In the lectures and in the textbook we see that there are three contending views of cultural globalization. What evidence can you present for each or any of these in London and in Strasbourg?

This first one, then, is an analytically-framed question, whereas the second is experientially-framed.

2. Giving specific examples from the readings and the lectures, which of those three views might offer the best interpretation of the experiences of immigration of these newcomers, and how much did these experiences differ between these two cities?

To answer these questions you must read and cite the following sources in your paper:

A) "Has racism changed? England reconsidered," from A Passage to England (1992), 218 – 224.

B) "Identity," ibid, 237 – 248.

C) "Home," ibid, 256 – 262.

D) Cosmopolitan Europe: a Strasbourg Self-portrait (2012), 187-201 & 251-253.

E) "Into the melting pot," The Economist (2/18/14), 55-56.

You must use an essay style which means you must have an introduction with a statement of purpose; at the end there must be a set of conclusions. You must provide a bibliography, and follow our format requirements (numbering pages, font size, stapling, section TA, etc.). You are welcome to use additional sources, but you must use and cite the above five references.

Essay length: 1200-1500 words.