Social Sciences and History / Unit 11 SSH 1020 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Global Culture, Placelessness, Resistance
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The idea
Global culture is people in diffuse places practicing similar culture. Placelessness is a place exactly like any other place. Resistance is actively obstructing a process. Roads and the Internet, the anchor says, reduced the friction of distance for popular culture's diffusion.
In practice
Decades for tomatoes to reach Italy.
Where people slip
Friction of distance is the anchor's phrase; the gravity model is not stated.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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