Today in class (day 25)

Today in class we took notes and learned new terms. We learned about Canada, language, religion, and ethnic heritage. These are the notes I took! Cultural Characteristics consists the parts of a group's everyday life. It also includes the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members. This means that things people do everyday and the ideas and themes people are taught make up cultural characteristics. These same characteristics can also link or divide a region. Examples of these characteristics would be language, religion, and ethnic heritage. An example of language is how Arabic unites the Arab world. Also how Spanish unites the Hispanic world. A vocab word we learned today was bilingual. Bilingual means that a nation has 2 official languages. A country that is bilingual would be Canada. Their official languages would be French and English. Today we also learned about ethnic heritage. In Yugoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into 1 country. When strong leadership died out, the different groups fought a very bloody civil war and now they all have separate countries. Some countries can not stand having different ethnic groups together as one. Such as Sudan. The Muslims and the Christians could not stand having to be together in the same country. They went to war which made all the boys leave their homes in southern Sudan. Other countries do not have different languages or ethnicity's in their country. A country like this would be North Korea. They do not let people in their country and do not let people out of their country. We learned many different vocab words today and learned more about our Culture unit! There are 82 days left of the year 2012! Oh my glob!