Fox Truck

To open our Human Geo class today, Mr. Schick told us a story about his weekend when he went to visit his daughter at collage.
Him and his wife stayed in an apartment and they could hear the Red Sox game from there. e told us of the adventure he had when he came across the Fox truck and took a peek inside.
After that, we continued taking notes on our new unit on Cultural Geography. Here are the notes I took:
Cultural characteristics- ethnic heritage, language, and religion
 
Language:

• Arabic unites the Arab world
• Spanish unites the Hispanic world
• Brazil is the only South American nation which does not speak Spanish. They speak Portuguese.
• Canada is bilingual. French and English are its official languages.
• 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. (Lingua Franca)

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.
• In Rwanda and Burundi in Africa, two ethnic groups are dominate the Tutsis and the Hutus
• The Hutus are dominate and they persecute the Tutsis and vice versa.
• This has led to constant war between the groups
• The U.S and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries
• Korea and Japan have mostly one ethnic group

We just barely started religion but didn't have much time left in class and Mr. Schick decided to hold off on his rant for tomorrow.