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Melanie (no login)
Posted Nov 6, 2000 7:05 PM
MAny people argue that your surroundings dictate your personality. We are socialized through culture and culture is determined by environment. For example Eskimos have about 26 different words for snow. They are around it so much they need to know exactly what type of snow, etc. Dr. Dwyer's posting addresses the fundamental question of the class. Why do these writers find their geographic surroundings such an important way to express their own internal emotions? Some would say that it is because our environment is just as much a developmental factor over our personality as our own mothers in raising us. DOes a freeway next door mean we will feel the need to protect our own space, will we need to travel, will we need to fight cancer because of it? Will its pollution determine the length ( or shortness) of our life? To me Geography is the "overlooked" God that controls an enormous chunk of our lives. Geography is our homeplace both internally and externally, how we interpret that is our creativity.
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