Geography Meeting Place of Two Term Paper

In such a vast place, regions and sub-regions have changed hands many times - the vagaries of political control have played their part too. Yet one fact stands out - and that is that, the great change which the area is now witnessing is, for the most part, of recent origin. It is a cultural phenomenon. Yes, it involves the exploitation of different environments, and the interaction of different political arrangements, but it shares a common culture; a culture that possesses different local variants, and in many cases, a diverse history; but it is one culture nonetheless. Industrialization and globalization threaten to level all differences in terrain; to reduce pristine mountains to slag heaps, thriving forests to arid wastes, and vibrant indigenous cultures to homogenized global villages whose people perhaps celebrate their differences on the occasional local holiday, or show them off at the local market in the form of native handicrafts. As damaging as many of these trends may be to the border region of the Russian Federation and East Asia, they warn us of a more dire crisis; one that threatens the whole Earth - we must learn to live in harmony with both the natural and the human environment.