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1 Cultural Geography (Film)
YES Dogs Based on Actual Events School Africa Rwanda NO Cats Happy Hotel Asia South Africa

2 Shooting Dogs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420901/

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5 Cultural Regions WG 3c

6 Language Regions Arab world Hispanic America Brazil: Portuguese
Canada: French and English Switzerland: Multiple Languages English: International Language

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8 Arabic is spoken in North Africa and most countries in the Middle East
Arabic is spoken in North Africa and most countries in the Middle East. Arabic is not spoken in Israel, Turkey, or Iran.

9 Spanish is spoken in Latin America. Portuguese is spoken in Brazil.

10 People speak French in Quebec, Canada and English in the rest of Canada.

11 Ethnic Heritage Former Yugoslavia: Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians
Burundi and Rwanda: Hutus and Tutsis United States, Switzerland: Multiple ethnicities united in one country Korea, Japan: Predominantly single ethnicity Cyprus: Island divided between Turks and Greeks

12 Former Yugoslavia In 1991, Yugoslavia broke into six separate countries. In 1995, a civil war in Bosnia resulted in acts of genocide against Bosnian Muslims by Serb forces.

13 Rwanda In 1994, there was a genocide in Rwanda. The Hutu ethnic group killed over 1,000,000 people from the Tutsi ethnic group.

14 U.S. and Switzerland The U.S. and Switzerland have many different ethnic groups but they are stable.

15 Korea and Japan Korea and Japan are examples of countries that have few ethnic minorities.

16 Cyprus The island of Cyprus is divided between Turkish and Greek people.

17 Religion Hinduism (India) Buddhism (Southeast Asia)
Judaism (Israel plus large communities in Europe and North America) Christianity – North and South America, Europe, Russia, Sub- Saharan Africa Islam – North Africa and Middle East

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19 Religion as Divisive Force
Conflicts between Hindus and Muslims in Pakistan and India Conflicts between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland Jews, Christians, and Muslims all claim Jerusalem as a holy site Conflicts between Sunni and Shi’a in the Middle East

20 Religion as Divisive Force

21 Sunni and Shi’a


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