Cultural Geography

In class today we had to copy notes from a power point Mr. Schick showed us. The power point was about cultural geography. We learned about the cultural characteristics of cultural geography. The characteristics are the parts of groups of everyday life, the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members, and these same characteristics can also link or divide a region. Some examples of cultural geography are language, religion and ethnic heritage. The language Arabic unites the Arab world and  Spanish unites the Hispanic world. Brazil is the only south american nation which does not speak Spanish, it speaks Portuguese. Canada is a bilingual nation. In Yugoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into one country. When strong leadership died out, the different groups fought a very bloody civil war and now they all have separate countries. The U.S. and Switzerland have merged ethnic groups in their countries. Religion can be unifying and dis unifying forces. There are 5 different major religions. They are Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jews are known as the descendants of Abraham.