Culture and Globalization

So today in class we took some notes and learned some new stuff. We went over culture and globalization. Geographers study both definitions of culture; What people care about, What people take care of. Important cultural values derive from a group's language, religion, and ethnicity. Why their customary ideas, beliefs, and values produce a distinctive culture in a particular place. Then their is what people take care of. The elements such as production of material wealth including food, clothing, and shelter that humans need in order to survive and thrive. Then we have globalization. Globalization is the force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something in the worldwide scope. For example when a transnational company has factories in a country where it doesn't have a headquarters or a prime shareholder. Especially in the 2008 global recession. Which effected anything from home buyers in the US to salesclerks in Japan. Everyone was caught in a web of falling demand and lack of credit.