Countries and Cultures

Today we expanded our notes on the lesson of Cultural Geography. As I said in my last blog about this lesson, cultural characteristics are parts of a group's everyday life. Basically these are the ideas and themes that put the foundations in your language, religion, and ethnic heritage. Language can unite some countries in many ways but sometimes it cannot. Arab is spoken in many countries that hate each other but some Hispanic countries are united together by their language. Switzerland is a very neutral country and has a very diverse culture but very little conflict between the groups. One thing that is very important to know about the English language is that it is the world wide business language. Many ethnic groups are very hostile towards each other because of many different reasons. There are two main ethnic groups called the Tutsis and the Hutus in Burundi, Africa and they persecute each other if they are on their powered land. Lucky, the United States and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries. I mean you can just look around a classroom in my school and see people from all around the world. It's amazing that these cultural characteristics can either combine or divide cities and even countries. I'm glad that I live in a country where we are relatively on the good side of ethnic acceptance.