Cultural Geography

Apparently this past class was supposed to be one that would make our blog gigantic.  Who knows?  Anyway we took notes from a PowerPoint about Cultural Geography.  The characteristics are the parts of a group’s everyday life, the ideas and themes which the group teaches and they can link or divide a region.  Three examples of this are language, religion and ethnic heritage.  I had no idea that English is the number one world language, I thought it was mandarin but the most amount of people speak that language, but isn't necessarily the world language.  Also, Canada is a bilingual nation: French and English.  The French wanted to for a new country but that obviously didn't happen.  I wonder why Switzerland has multiple languages but no controversy; it's just such a happy place.  France apparently is our biggest ally and also that Brazil might be the only South American county that doesn't speak Spanish.  With the Ethnic Heritage one Yugoslavia had so many ethnic groups, but one their leadership died out all of the ethnic groups broke out and caused many civil wars amongst.  I never knew that America didn't go to Moscow in 1982 because of a political disagreement!  That would make SO many people mad.  Also, apparently fighting will stop  countries for the Olympics, why don't they just compete that way instead of slaughtering everybody; it seemed to have worked, because for that time it is stopped.  That was when we ran out of time and the bell rang.