December 2nd

Today we watched a PowerPoint. The PowerPoint was about the topic "Cultural Geography". Cultural characteristics are parts of a group's everyday life. They are the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members. These same characteristics can also link or divide a region. Examples of cultural characteristics would be language, religion, and ethnic heritage.
Examples of Cultural characteristics:

• Arabic unties the Arab world
• Spanish unites the Hispanic world
• Brazil is the only South American Nation which does not speak Spanish. It speaks Portuguese.
• Canada is a bilingual nation. French and English are their official languages.
• Switzerland had multiple languages but very little conflict between the groups.
• English is now considered the world language and is used for most business transactions around the world.
• in Yugoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into one country, (Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians)
• When strong leadership died out, the different groups fought a very bloody civil war and now they all have separate countries
• in the countries of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa, Two ethnic groups are dominant , the Tutsis are dominant in the other.
• The Hutus are dominant in one and they persecute the Tutsis, and the Tutsis are dominant in the other
• and they persecute the Hutus. It has led to almost constant war between the groups.
• the United States and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries.
• Korea, Japan, and China have primarily one ethnic group.
• on the island of Cyprus the Greeks and the Turks try to gain control.