cultural characteristics
- parts of groups everyday life
- the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members
- these same characteristics can also link or divide a region
examples
- language
- religion
- ethnic heritage
language
- arabic unites the arab world
- spanish unites the hispanic world
- brazil is the only south american nation that speaks portuguese instead of spanish
- canada is bilingual (french & english offical language)
- switzerland has multiple languages
- english is considered the worlds language
- ^ used for most business transactions around the world (lingua franca)
- in yogoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into one country ( serbs, croats, bosniaos, albanians)
- when strong leadership died out, the different group fought a very bloody civil war & now they all have seperate countries
- the united states & switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries
- korea & japan have primarily one ethnic group
Religion
- can be both unifying and disunifying force
hinduism
buddhism
judaism
islam
christianity
jews- desendants of abraham
shiites and sunnis
- religion has over millions of followers all believing the same thing
- can also be a dividing force around the world
- hindus & muslims fight india (hindu) & pakistan (muslim)
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