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What is Geography?
National Geographic ^

Posted on 02/03/2023 2:24:58 PM PST by DallasBiff

Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Geographers explore both the physical properties of Earth’s surface and the human societies spread across it

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.org ...


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KEYWORDS: geek; geography
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I am a geography geek. Know routes driving by road maps, and not GPS.

Loved National Geographic growing up about the different places, and no I'm not going into the bare breasted African women they showed.

1 posted on 02/03/2023 2:24:58 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Geography is everywhere!


2 posted on 02/03/2023 2:37:14 PM PST by xp38
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I always thought geography was about the physical landforms and features themselves, without humanity being considered in it.

Relationships between people and their environments sounds more like sociology to me.


3 posted on 02/03/2023 2:45:01 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: DallasBiff

I love maps!


4 posted on 02/03/2023 2:57:12 PM PST by caver
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To: DallasBiff

It’s racism. Just wait...


5 posted on 02/03/2023 2:57:38 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: metmom
“I always thought geography was about the physical landforms and features themselves, without humanity being considered in it.”

And you would be correct. This definition reeks of wokey-globull-warming leftist b.s.

6 posted on 02/03/2023 3:11:16 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: DallasBiff
I think I was ten, I was fascinated by maps and loved looking at them. Still do to some degree. My grandmother asked me once what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I said I wanted to be a geographer but was not sure if I wanted to move to Kansas.

'Why would you have to move to Kansas?

'Well, that's the geographical center of the country.' I responded.

The logic was there, the facts weren't. Hey, I was only ten. LOL

7 posted on 02/03/2023 3:21:43 PM PST by Michael.SF. ( The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility)
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To: DallasBiff

“Geography perpetuates white privilege and cisgender patriarchal hegemony at the exclusion of racially transitorians victimized by stochastic terrorism against trans genderqueer non binary BIPOC minorities.” - Newspeak 2023


8 posted on 02/03/2023 3:35:39 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: metmom

“I always thought geography was about the physical landforms and features themselves, without humanity being considered in it.”

No, it includes the political boundaries and sites (i.e., borders, countries, cities, etc.). That’s why atlases generally include a physical map (the terrain and waterways, etc.) and a political map (borders, countries, cities, etc.).

I’ve been into maps since I was a kid.

My Dad was a pilot in WWII and in the USAFR. When I was a kid he taught me the rudiments of navigation on a huge map of the world he had in his den. You know, latitude and longitude; degrees, minutes, and seconds; plotting courses, rhumb lines, etc. It came in handy later in life.


9 posted on 02/03/2023 3:35:51 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: metmom

Geography has gone woke.


10 posted on 02/03/2023 3:37:01 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Michael.SF.
God when I was 10, I know its weird, I read the Rand-McNally map religiously.

Miss those simpler times.

11 posted on 02/03/2023 3:38:57 PM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

What is a woman?


12 posted on 02/03/2023 3:40:14 PM PST by TTFX
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To: Sicon

“I always thought geography was about the physical landforms and features themselves, without humanity being considered in it.”
And you would be correct. This definition reeks of wokey-globull-warming leftist b.s.

FYI: The Department of State has a 70+ year old Office of the Geographer that has done much work on boundary studies — the cause of many our political problems, past and present. And humanity is definitely considered.


13 posted on 02/03/2023 3:51:11 PM PST by Bookshelf
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What is a woman?

Well when I was growing up my father told me about "The Birds and the Bees", he said a male has a penis and a woman has a vagina.

14 posted on 02/03/2023 3:55:20 PM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: rdl6989

I hope they aren’t teaching woke geography in Florida.


15 posted on 02/03/2023 4:02:28 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: ought-six

Do you have the nine-quads that surround your home?


16 posted on 02/03/2023 4:24:08 PM PST by GingisK
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Gazetteers and Township maps.


17 posted on 02/03/2023 4:29:26 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: xp38

“Geography is everywhere!”

Are you doing matinees in Ybor this weekend?

Let me know, I’ll pay the cover.

5.56mm


18 posted on 02/03/2023 4:34:39 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go.)
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To: GingisK

Municipal grids, etc.


19 posted on 02/03/2023 4:41:14 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Sicon

That’s what I thought.

Wokeism infects everything these days.


20 posted on 02/03/2023 4:43:03 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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