Cultural geography is, of course, about culture, but it is
specifically about how culture is distributed across
space.
For example, cultural geography can be concerned
with the issue of how various aspects of culture have diffused across space. An example
of this might be the study of how European influences have diffused from cities into the
countryside in a place like Belize that was
colonized.
Cultural geography is also concerned with things
like the distribution of ethnic groups and ethnic identity. Cultural geographers of a
place like Belize might look at the distribution of the various ethnic groups in the
country. They might also want to look at how the presence of people like Indians,
Chinese and Mennonites has impacted the culture of the regions where these various
groups live.
In short, cultural geography does study
culture, but it has a geographical component. It is most interested in the way that
various cultural traits are distributed over the space of the
country.
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