Examples of cultural characteristics:
Language
- Arabic unites the Arab world
- Spanish unites the Hispanic world
- Brazil is the only South American nation which does not speak Spanish. It speak Portuguese.
- Canada is a bilingual nation. French and English are their official. Canada has provinces instead of states.
- The US has no official languages.
- Switzerland has multiple languages but very little conflict between groups
- English is now considered the world language and used for must business.
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 dominate, the Tutsis and Hutus
- 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 and Japan have primarily one ethnic group
- On the island of Cyprus, the Greeks and Turks try to gain control
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