South Africa

i like south Africa because its intresting and it has many diffrent cutures and religions also theres really pretty climate & the lakes are beatiful there i like studying about Africa because thats were my ancestors are from and its cool to learn about what they went through when they where kids so we can se what we have in common.

The arabian culture is mostly in the middle east.

jews are usually caterigorized as arabs.

the qur'an had a significate influence on the arabic language.

the language used in qur'an is called classic arabian.

the qu'ran is important to arabic.

arabic music is people speaking in arabic.

the arabian tone system was created by al-farabi.

the arabian musical mentality is defined by The maqam phenomenon.

much arab music is emphasisd on its melody.

the arabic language is the biggest in semetic branch.

The Arabic language also has various dialects from the numerous countries and traditions.

It is sometimes difficult to translate islamic concepts.

A majority of the world's muslims do not speak Arabic.

islam is a religion based on the qu'ran.

the islam religion believe muhammed is their god.

japanes

Japanes live in there own word this culture is like chines but not really. They go to school but just learn thier own language. they have lots of things in thier caultrue they have lots of friends and faimly.

The great wall of china

chinese believe in buddhism and take pictures of the Buddha. They are buddhists. Chinese people eat buddhist food.the great wall of china is long to 4,000 miles

South Korea

South Korea came into being after World War II, the result of a 1945 agreement reached by the Allies at the Potsdam Conference, making the 38th parallel the boundary between a northern zone of the Korean peninsula to be occupied by the USSR and southern zone to be controlled

The Split Horn; the life of a Hmong shaman
In this story/movie it explores the traditons and the culture of a Hmong family who'd just came from Thailand to America. In the family the father is a respected shaman. He knows how to cure sickness and interact with the other world. As a shaman, he believes in what he do and what a Hmong family should live like, but as they get into the American life, his kids had grown up to live the American life instead of keeping their own. He is scared that they will lose their culture, their traditons and their language as they become more familair with the new lifestyle. Its very hard for him as a parent and as a shaman, going through all the changes. You should watch this movie if you want to know more about the culture of the Hmong people, follow the life of this hmong family and find out.

(Aly Vue)

KoReAn CuLtUrE

Korean people live in Korea, one of the oldest continuous civilzation in the world and has over 5,000 years of history. Korea is a small penninsula on the far East side of Asia. It is between China and Japan. Korean languages is shared between both North and South Korea and is part of theAltaic language family. When there is a special event the ladies usually play the drums and wear their traditions dress. In Korea they still have many traditional values. The bigest and popular city in Korea is Seoul it is like New York City.

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