Cultural geography importance

Cultural Diversity Geography requires awareness of the importance of cultural diversity—that is, area differences in language, race, religion, and politics; generally, how and why people live the way they do.
When American citizens appreciate cultural diversity, many issues and problems may be addressed in a positive manner.

Scholars realized that urban areas now held as many or more clues to modernizing culture as did rural ones.
It was also during this time that representational cultural geography emerged in an era where sign, symbol, and meaning in the landscape and the processes of cultural landscape creation became important considerations.