Crazy Clare's Comments

   After watching presentations from other groups, I noticed how geography affects culture, because it affects the clothing you wear, the houses you live in,and much more!

Geography could affect what clothes you would wear in certain areas because of the weather and temperature of that area. You wouldn’t want to wear short sleeves in Alaska or in the winter would you? You would want to wear clothes like jeans, coats, hats, and other heavy materials. The same would apply if you lived in hot and humid weather. You wouldn’t want to wear heavy clothing,but instead clothing made of light material such as shorts and short sleeved t-shirts. Logan Harmison, Caroline Woodruff, Hannah Blakley and Spencer McCourt explained this in their presentation of Lospecah. They explained how, because they were located in Egypt, their citizens wore short sleeves and shorts. If their people wouldn’t have worn these types of clothing, then they would be very hot and uncomfortable in their community, since Egypt is a very hot place.

Geography could also affect culture, as far as the types of houses people would live in in different areas. For instance, no one would want to live in a house made of mud in a cold area, such as Alaska or Greenland, because it wouldn’t keep them warm, but instead cold. The same would go for hot climates. Most likely nobody would want to live in a house made of snow or ice in a place like South America or Egypt, because it is of course hot there, and it would cause their homes to melt! That is why they would best be made out of mud or stone. This why I liked how Ben Fletcher, Nick Haythorn, Hunter Kearney and James Meyer created their houses of mud,since their community, Panyay City, was a very hot and humid place. They explained how the material of mud is good for houses because it keeps the people cool in the hot weather.

“There was no need for air condition.” they had said. This was correct, because mud would keep you cooler in the humid temperature, and would serve as a good, sturdy structure.

I found that geography can affect the culture of certain areas with climate, mainly the food type that the climate would allow to grow. What I mean is, your community wouldn’t be growing corn if your location was in Europe, because the Europeans didn’t discover it for a long time, but the Americans instead did. Also, you can’t expect to be growing a “garden” in cold places such as Alaska or Greenland because it is way to cold up there to do so. You can’t hunt seals in America because they don’t live in that part of the world, but instead in Alaska or Greenland-areas like that. This is why the creators of S.A.F. Were correct, because they were in Asia, and they grew wheat. Then in their “skit”, Morgan Cornichinni, Mark Anderson, Matthew Morand and Lucy Bays acted out having a meal in S.A.F. of wheat pancakes. This was correct and made sense, because you can grow wheat in Asia like I said, which is what the wheat pancakes were made of.

This is proof that culture is affected by geography everywhere, all around the world in lots of different ways. I learned some of these ways after just simply watching presentations of communities around the world. Geography can affect culture in many ways!