CULTURE

DID YOU KNOW...

• There are more than 7 billion people living the world today? That means countless CULTURES, languages, traditions and societies.
• The 10 most common languages are as follows:
1. Mandarin Chinese
2. Hindi (India)
3. English
4. Spanish
5. Bengali (India and Bangladesh)
6. Portuguese
7. Russian
8. Japenese
9. German (standard)
10. Korean
• CHALLENGE YOURSELF!!! Try to think of a language that is not listed above and look up information on the language, the people who speak the language and their culture!!
• I come from Slavic ancestry on my father's side (Czech, Slovak and Hungarian), so I am going to do some research and incorporate my own knowledge from passed-down traditions on both the Czech (my great-grandfather, John Novak, was Czech) and Slovak (my great-grandmother, Susanna Novak, née Petras, was Slovak) cultures. The Czech and Slovak cultures are very similar in language, traditions and food and are sometimes used synonymously, so I am going to refer to these two cultures as Czechoslovak in my findings. 
• Source: Check out this website for more information on world diversity: http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_5.htm 

--Miss H.