Tuesday, December 2, 2014

december 2

My notes for today:

Cultural Geopgraphy


  • chultuaral characterisics are a parts of a groups everyday life. they are the ideas and themes that they will TEACH to all members. These same characteristics can also link or divide a region. Examples: Language, religion, ethnic heritage
  • Language
    • Arabic unties the Arab world. 
    • Spanish unties the Spanish world
    • Brazil is the only South American nation that doesn't speak Spanish. They speak portugese groups 
    • Canada is bilingual : speaks 2 languages thay are French and English 
    • Switzerland has multiple ethnic group but little conflict
    • english is considered the world language
  • Ethnic Heritage
    • in Yugoslavia ethnic group were made into one country
      • when strong leadership died out the different groups fought a boody civil war and now they are have seperate countries
      • Tutsis and Hutus hate eachother
    • the US and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their country 
    • Korea and Japan mainly have one

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