Genocide! Yay!

                Today in Human Geography we finished our culture PowerPoint and went through the rest of our religion PowerPoint. So this makes more sense, I’m categorizing the information I got by what PowerPoint it was on, not by when I received it. First I’ll go over the rest of the culture PowerPoint. We covered the rest of the language section first. Language as stated before can divide or unify a region, however Switzerland has four national languages. It’s funny, because everyone gets along in their country nicely even though there are four different accepted dialects. Canada has two national languages, French and English (This creates an odd mix of French and English, which my family calls Canadian French. Truth be told, when speaking French most Canadians won’t call a hot dog un chaud chien, they most likely will call it ‘un hot dog’.) The U.S. has no official language, but English is spoken here in large amounts and is a ‘bridge language’ for business. Brazil speaks Portugese even though the surrounding area speaks Spanish because early settlers of Brazil (from Portugal) spoke it. Next we did a section on religion. Throughout the whole world, Christians (and their other denominations) make up 1/3 of the world. Muslims make up 21.01%. The smallest current religion listed on this pie chart was Judaism, at 0.23% population made up of Jews in the world. We also went over ethnic heritage, and how ethnicity has affected certain cultures. In Yugoslavia, Serbs were taught to be Yugoslavic first, and Serbian second. When strong leadership in the country died out, the nation fell into civil war and became five separate countries. The U.S. have a very diverse population for all the obvious reasons, but some countries such as North Korea or Japan have only one ethnicity due to the way the government is run. After finishing the culture PowerPoint (ending with mass genocide) we continued the religion PowerPoint. The last and final religion on the list was Judaism. There are fourteen-eighteen million adherents to Judaism (Keep in mind still 0.23% of the world population). There are high concentrations in Israel and the US, and the founder is considered to be Abraham. They uphold some of the same law as Christians, such as the Ten Commandments, and they have considerably large amounts of tradition in their religion.