Cultural geography powerpoint

Today we continued on with our cultural geography unit.
-cultural characteristics
-Examples of cultural characteristics would be language, religion, and ethnic heritage
-Ethnic heritage fades off after two generations
Language
-Arabic unites the Arab world
-Spanish unites the Hispanic world
-Brazil is the only south american nation which dos not speak Spanish, it speaks Portuguese
-Canada is a bilingual nation. French and English are their official languages
Examples
- Switzerland has 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
Ethnic heritage
- 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 dominate the Hutus and Tutsis, different places in Africa are ruled by the other and the groups persecute each other group in the land that they are dominate in
- the United States and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries
- Korea, China, and Japan have one ethnic group
- on the island of Cyprus, the Greeks and the Turks try to gain control