12-3

Today we started our next unit on Cultural Geography here are some notes I took.

• Language
• Arabic unites the Arab world
• 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. Speak French and English, Quebec is the French speaking part
• 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
• When strong leadership died out, the different groups fought a very bloody civil war and now they all have separate countries
• The United States and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries
• Korea and japan have primarily one ethnic group