Nationalism &
Identity
Identity
This island has U.S. citizenship but no presidential vote.
What is Guam
A city with more than 10 million people is called this.
What is a megacity?
This Pacific Basin city-state is famous for its aggressive urban cooling strategies, green architecture, and for branding itself as a “city in nature” rather than nature in a city.
What is Singapore
This atomic bombing reshaped Pacific geopolitics and memory.
What is Hiroshima/Nagasaki?
These economies rapidly industrialized in Asia after the 1960s.
What are the Four Asian Tigers?
Coined by Benedict Anderson, this term describes how people feel connected to a nation even though they will never meet most of its members.
What is an imagined community
his process converts rural land into sprawling suburbs.
What is urban sprawl?
This low-lying Pacific island nation is especially vulnerable to sea-level rise, flooding, and saltwater intrusion, making it one of the most climate-threatened places on Earth.
What are the Marshall Islands
This VR experience explored nuclear testing trauma.
What is On the Morning You Wake?
This term describes the increasing connection of countries through trade, labor, media, technology, and economic systems. For example, how Sriracha sauce became popular worldwide.
What is globalization
An independent political entity with clear geographic boundaries
What is a state
This happens when poor residents are pushed out of a neighborhood as rents rise.
What is gentrification?
According to NASA, by the 2050s many Pacific island nations will face at least this much sea-level rise in inches, even if global emissions are reduced.
What is about 6 inches (15 cm)
This film assembled Cold War propaganda into critique.
What is The Atomic Café?
This massive Asia-Pacific free trade agreement created the largest trading bloc in history, covering about 30% of the world’s population and global GDP, and will eliminate nearly 90% of tariffs among member countries over 20 years.
What is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
A large body of people united by common origin, history, culture, ethnicity, or language
What is a nation
This Pacific Basin city is the largest metropolitan area in the world, known for extreme population density, vast urban sprawl, and one of the most complex public transit systems on Earth.
What is Tokyo
This chemical change is threatening coral reef survival in many Pacific Island nations.
What is ocean acidification?
This form of resistance avoids direct violence and instead uses actions like boycotts, slowdowns, refusal to comply, gossip, and everyday noncooperation to challenge power.
What is passive resistance
This regional organization promotes economic cooperation, political stability, and collective bargaining power among Southeast Asian countries in the global economy.
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
The Indigenous people of Guam, with deep ancestral ties to land, ocean navigation, and extended kinship networks.
Who are the CHamoru people
This theory examines how everyday interactions and shared symbols shape how people experience the city.
What is Symbolic Interactionism
In coastal Southern California, this Indigenous nation uses the restoration of native plants as a way to reclaim land, revive ecological knowledge, and assert ongoing sovereignty
Who are the Acjachemen
This Southeast Asian country is known as the only nation in the region that was never colonized, maintaining sovereignty by acting as a diplomatic buffer between the French and British empires.
What is Thailand
All three of the United States’ largest trading partners are part of the Pacific Basin. These neighboring and trans-Pacific economies dominate U.S. imports and exports.
Who are Mexico, Canada, and China