Ap Human Geography - Tumblr Posts

So sorry for not posting 😭 I've been cramming for my AP final which is tomorrow (wish me luck) and then writing my sociology final ( I would pay real money for someone else to do it ) I will be returning just give me like a week to have my mental breakdown

Wish me luck 🤞 It's cook or be cooked. manifesting a five

AP Human Geography Study Material

These are only a few that I have right now but hope it’s helpful to someone

HOW TO STUDY

How to study for ap human geography -I liked this one the most

PRACTICE TEST/ QUIZZES

Barron

diagnostic tests - so many little quizzes to help over each topic

Albert- referenced by so many students to me

chapter quizzes

FLASHCARDS

Rubenstein vocab - all of his vocab- highly sourced

Terminology

CRASH COURSE

PDF REVIEW BOOK

PPT/REVEIWS

ppt review - goes over a lot

ASSIGNMENTS

chapter work sheets -every chapter and key issue

studying for my AP exam makes me want to throw a brick against a wall

"how does globalization contribute to ethnocentrism but discount cultural relativism"??? sorry what the FUCK does that even mean

this study guide is INSANE

Analyzing San Fransoyko

okay, credit to @razbotz for encouraging me to do this, I was on the fence about this, but I think I might do a full series of posts just dedicated to analyzing San Fransoyko's world-building from the perspective of a former AP Human Geo student who spent a year studying the course and applying it to world-building. The course has little practical use but it's a course I know a lot about (I can proudly say I kept an A in the class despite it being a college course I took at 13-14 when the class had a low passing rate at my school due to the fact we were WAYYYY too young to be taking the course) so now I'm going to infodump about it.

Sooo, if I continue this, then this is part 1/? of idk how many.

Okay, so cultural diffusion, as a concept, cultural diffusion is when traits or aspects of culture (clothing, language, architecture, textile works, art, religion, music, all these things associated with a culture) diffuse or move from its hearth (a hearth being the origin of a cultural trait, agricultural crop, or other things, basically, the birthplace). San Fransokyo is a really good example of the positive effects of cultural diffusion. As the name of the city implies it's a mix of San Francisco California and Tokyo Japan, we see the Golden Gate Bridge altered to use Japanese Shinto temples/shrine designs (insert image lol)

Now.. compare that with the actual golden gate bridge and you can notice the differences in design.

This is an example of multiple types of diffusion (there are 6 main types, Contagious, Expansion, Hierarchical, Stimulus, Relocation, and Maladaptive).

(Note: as not everyone may be familiar with these terms, here's some basic definitions: -Contagious diffusion is well, contagious, think of it like a virus or disease that spreads from person to person through contact, cultural traits can move within a community through word of mouth and with the advent of the internet, through social media posts and other way things can go viral, if something goes viral and spreads a trait, it's likely Contagious diffusion. -Expansion is when a trait stays prominent in its birthplace, like rice, which has had multiple birth places but has spread elsewhere while still remaining prevalent in the parts of Asia where it originated from. -Hierarchical diffusion is when a cultural trait moves up or down a social hierarchy, for example, a lot of fashion pieces move from these high-level designers in France, which is prestigious and known for fashion, and move down the social ladder to everyday people. This can also happen with rich people and monarchs throughout history, or the opposite can happen when lower class/normal people do something, the rich find out and start doing it too and it spreads. -Stimulus diffusion occurs when a trait moves from one place to another but changes, likely due to limitations of the place it moves to. This is especially common in agriculture and cuisine, immigrants move to new places where they may not be able to access the same ingredients from where they immigrated too so their dishes get reinvented or changed. This can also happen with outside influences such as the Texas German dialect which is a German dialect native to Texas among German immigrants where as certain words didn't exist at the time so they borrowed English words while Germans in Germany created new words for these in German that didn't cross over, the prolonged exposure and changes to the culture due to outside forces created a different dialect. -Relocation diffusion is pretty straightforward, it's when people from one culture move to an area with people of a different culture, bringing their culture with them, this is common amongst immigrant populations who bring their culture with them and establish groups of other people with similar cultures, like how China towns exist with people of similar cultures and ethnicities and how they serve to protect and create a space for these people. Due to assimilation throughout history many cases of relocation diffusion result in not much spread of the trait because people assimilate into the culture of the area they're in to fit in. -Our last major definition here, which is maladaptive diffusion. This is not very relevant to the conversation but I thought I'd throw it in. Maladaptive diffusion is when a trait diffuses to an area, but doesn't catch on that much or seem that relevant while not changing that much. A common example is when people are playing soccer/football in snowy climates, the game doesn't make sense for the area but people still do it, it isn't that relevant but it remains unchanged.

The bridge is likely relocation because from what I understand of the wiki, the reason San Fransokyo is named that is due to Japanese immigrants, which if we can use basic reasoning skills (plus the background knowledge that people bring their culture with them when they move) we can likely reason that as Japanese immigrants moved from Japan to at the time San Francisco they brought their culture with them as they relocated.

Shintoism is what we call an 'ethnic religion' in AP human geo (which I have slight discomfort with as the terminology used in the course is often very Eurocentric, but ethnic religions are essentially religions that are primarily practiced by one ethnicity or culture, they don't try to convert people into it on large scales and mostly mind their own business, compared that with Christianity which is a universalizing religion that tries to appeal to a large number of people to gain or convert new members in different groups, ethnic religions like Shintoism are often indigenous religions that have much smaller populations) so Shintoism doesn't spread quickly, but we see it's influenced in the architecture of San Fransokyo meaning it grasped at the city and managed to take hold, moving and relocation with Japanese immigrants.

That's one form of cultural diffusion present, now here's another, expansion diffusion. Going back to Shintoism, this religion, though not super big, is still prevalent and one of, if not the oldest still standing religion in Japan, and due to the architectural influences scene with it in San Fransokyo, armed with the knowledge I previously supplied that expansion diffusion is when a trait defuses but is still prevalent in its place of origin, Shintoism likely expanded from Japan with Japanese immigrants to San Fransokyo and stayed prevalent in both places.

Contagious diffusion is another easy one to show examples for since it connects with the previous themes already. Immigrants move to an area, the traits expand outwardly, moving from person to person in the past now more rapidly with technology, and a larger amount of people pick up the trait.

For the last major one I can say without it being a stretch is likely Stimulus diffusion (I could make an argument from a bottom-to-top hierarchical diffusion since we've seen it happen with immigrant populations who are low on the social hierarchy influencing the top, but I'm honestly too tired as I type this to find examples). This is shown when we see the mixture of Japanese imagery and architecture mixed with more American and Spanish influences (as San Fransokyo is based on the real San Francisco but if there was an influx of Japanese immigrants, and due to the real San Francisco having large Spanish influences in its culture there's likely a mix of Japanese, Spanish, and American influences on the culture of the fictional San Fransokyo.) Stimulus diffusion is when traits are changed due to limitations or interactions with other cultures when a cultural trait is carried to new places, as we can see throughout the movie in the background, the traits are not completely left unchanged, there's American influences in the buildings, in the people, in the languages in the culture, plus the Japanese aspects which both change each other due to prolonged exposure to each other, changing both culture's traits and creating new ones.

I am about to hit character limit, but that's part 1 of my rambles on San Fransokyo and AP Human Geo concepts, I'll post the next instances I see when I'm not sleep-deprived at 2am, love ya'll, thanks to @razbotz for encouraging me to make this.

-Feral/Raine

AP Human Geo

Okay, I know I had a post about analyzing San Fransokyo using AP Human Geo concepts, and I'll make more of those later, but the AP scores for this year came out today and I got a 4/5! Holy shit- I honnestly thought I'd get a 2, cause like, I took an AP course, a college course, in 8th grade, at fucking 14 years old, that's amazing, that's great, like, I wasn't expecting that. I love human geography, but AP grading is kinda rigged/unfair sometimes, like, you can answer something completely correctly and still get it wrong because of the phrasing, so I'm happy I did well. I don't know, jsut wanted to share some thoughts, I'm not feeling great mentally, just kinda floating through my days lately, but it was a pleasant little surprise, I still feel kinda just "Eh" but it could be worse, I could've gotten a 1-2 (especially considering AP human geo had a high amount of students with a 1 this year).