WORLD OF

REGIONS
GROUP 5
ABERTE, ROBIN REY
BINIGAY, PRINCESS OLIVIA
DORONILA, JANIEL CARLO
ODIN, JIMBOY CORING
TRUZ, JESSA
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The world-regional model, by contrast, is defined by culture. While never explicit,
the main cultural basis for world regions is the civilization. Conventionally, though,
each world region is a group of countries; this by itself limits their coherence, since
most large countries and even some small ones are internally diverse, and may have
elements that are individually similar to different world regions, and yet the country
is assigned wholly just to one. In a few cases, world regions are defined by
intergovernmental organizations, which further limits their coherence. And all of the
regions exhibit internal diversity in a variety of ways, though that is primarily a
function of the scale; no region of that size can be uniform.
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• A world region is a large primary division of the world used in higher
education — originally in anthropology, but then also in geography and
history, and as the basis for area studies. world regions -Americas (North
America, South America, Central America, Caribbean) Asia Pacific
(Central & South Asia, Northeastern Asia, Southeastern Asia, Australia
and Oceania) Europe (Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe,
Western Europe) Middle East/Africa (Middle East, Northern Africa,
Southern Africa)
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• The Caribbean globe region comprises of all the Caribbean islands as well as Belize
and the majority of Guiana, specifically (Western) Guyana, Suriname, and French
Guiana. It is evident that the English-speaking territories are closer to North America
than the Spanish-speaking regions are to Latin America. However, most people in the
former British colonies speak English or French creole as their first language, and
French creole is the predominant vernacular in Haiti. North American Standard
English is not one of these widespread vernaculars. Most of the smaller states are
stable parliamentary democracies. Cuba is the only country in the Caribbean that is
not a democracy, however Haiti and Suriname's democracies are not stable. The rest
of the Caribbean is included in the US economic zone.
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• Through regionalization, the member states comes up with social,
economic and political agreements that affect their respective regions.
Therefore, there usually is only little chance of developing a universal
culture that promotes easy integration among various parts of the world.
Regionalization is not a negative and undesired trend altogether.
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• Regionalization can be conceived as the growth of societal integration
within a given region, including the undirected processes of social and
economic interaction among the units (such as nation-states; see Hurrell
1995a, 39). As a dynamic process, it can be best understood as a
continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized
political cooperation within a particular group of states, and/or as regional
communities such as pluralistic security communities (see Whiting 1993,
19).