What Do Landscapes Tell Us About Our Culture? | Linnea Sando | TEDxHelena

What do landscapes tell us about our culture? What is the value of reading landscapes? Landscapes can say a lot about a community's culture and values. Ph.D. Candidate, MSU
Linnea Sando is a Ph.D. Candidate in Earth Sciences at Montana State University. She teaches, researches and writes about the geography of our human world. Her research has explored the creation and evolution of place identities across the American West, ethnic landscapes in eastern South Dakota and the influence of agricultural economies on places in the Midwest and West. Linnea's research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at regional and national conferences. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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We do all be here bc of geography class huh

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No english class :((

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only watching this for school

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Roses are red Violets are blue We all know Your teacher sent you

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Roses are red, Violets are blue. I'm studying for a DSST, Your statement isn't true.

[@kayzeaza]

The dislikes are from students who waited to long to study LOL

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6:50 if you looking for the scale question in geography

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OMG YOU DONT UNDERTSAND HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS

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Actually very informative 👍

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I like last thankyou part

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Nice

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watching this 3 years later for school

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5 years later...

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6 eons later...@@EmbersonMishoe

[@tompearce6312]

Shame about the negative comments, lots to think about here and apply to every day life.

[@davidmajor449]

It's oversimplified gibberish. All she is doing is sowing together over-simplified but somewhat plausible sounding narratives using jargon and word salad while ignoring actual history and nuances.

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where my pugh bros at

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@Jack McAvoy i sit behind you

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What's Kraken? Oh lol

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@@jackmcavoy2852 ok thats amazing

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what is a landscape tho

[@olle938]

Recommend Fairclough, Graham 2002

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@@olle938 idk what that is

[@olle938]

@@tomtoms8480 He goes over the definitions of landscape. Some quotes "Landscape belongs to everyday life, as part of every citizen's culture, heritage and environment, and must be democratised both in terms of identifying why it is valuable and deciding how it is used and; Landscape is a cultural construct composed of many different ways of understanding and appreciation. Not all of these ways are 'scientific', objective or material. Many are personal, individual and subjective, or reflects intangible aspects of the environment." "Landscape is an area, as percieved by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors." "It is born of past human modification of the environment, and more importantly it only becomes landscape when filtered through human perception and interpretation."

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@@olle938 oh ok well thanks bro i did end up figuring it out anyway

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@@olle938 Thank you for this! Can I ask you which one of his works is this from?

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hmm.. interesting

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Wow so inspiring! *just kidding*

[@archiejackson7363]

The point wasn’t to inspire

[@jeffreyhu9007]

@@archiejackson7363 Yeah it was to bore us to death

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@@jeffreyhu9007 Correction: It was to educate/inform us.

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@@arakano Wow so informative! *sike*

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@@arakano and yet I am still bored

[@AngieMusicArt]

Heaven help us!....she’s talking way too fast. Glad it’s less than 10 mins sheesh🙄

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yup... i hate this

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borring

[@ronshannon7334]

it could be. i teach high school, and cultural landscape is a big part of what we learn.

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This is the worst ted talk ever

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Don’t be mean

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Yea she talks so fast and its soooooo boring

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This sucked horribly

[@nicholasthorne1908]

The US is a nation of immigrants. These are all Native lands (Indian Country, Turtle Island), and have been for countless generations. That is, unless you believe the illegal word of our violent and destructive European ancestors, whose theft and misappropriation of our lands and resources brought (and continues to bring) you here. I am an Eastlander from the Penobscot river, and you are all still our guests here.

[@tqp1844]

Hi there! I saw your comment about the United States being a nation of immigrants, and I wanted to share my thoughts on the matter. While it's true that the U.S. has a diverse history of immigration, I think it's important to remember that this is not unique to the U.S. People have been migrating and settling in new territories for thousands of years, and it's a natural part of human history. For example, the ancestors of modern-day Italians migrated to the Italian peninsula from other parts of Europe thousands of years ago, while the ancestors of modern-day Japanese migrated to the Japanese archipelago from mainland Asia over 2,000 years ago. Additionally, I think it's important to note that the idea of the United States belonging exclusively to Native American peoples ignores the fact that these lands were not static and unchanging before the arrival of Europeans. Indigenous peoples have been migrating and moving across North America for thousands of years, often displacing and sometimes assimilating earlier populations. In short, the idea that the United States is a nation of immigrants is not meant to erase or diminish the histories and experiences of Native Americans or other groups. Rather, it acknowledges the complex and varied origins of the people who have come together to form this country. I hope this helps provide some context to the discussion. Thanks for your comment!

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[@tqp1844]

@@Chimpin_ ok 😢