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CultureGrams & World Conflicts Today Updates
Have you seen the latest CultureGrams feature? Faces of the World is a collection of nearly 100 interviews in which people of all ages—from around the globe—describe their challenges, ambitions, worldviews, and everyday lives. Rich in detail, these accounts provide a new layer of insight into their cultures.
To access Faces of the World, use the Interviews link (live) at the top of the World and Kids editions. This will take you to a gallery of photos, with links to each full interview. Also, each applicable country page has a link in its "Additional Content" box, and relevant excerpts are linked from category pages.
As an example, see how people from the same age group but from different countries and continents responded to the question, "What has been the most significant event in your life?" (Video response)
"The most significant event in my life was when I traveled to Zimbabwe to visit a friend. It was my first time to board a plane and so everything was new to me. When I arrived in Zimbabwe, I was amazed at the language which was spoken. It was very strange to me and totally different to ours in Uganda. They also ate unique foods, including caterpillars and rats. They told me to try them, but I could not."
— David, age 26, Mbale, Uganda
Note that for interviewees' privacy and safety their last names are not used and first names may have been changed to a common name in the culture.
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Teaching Idea:
Interview Comparison
In this month's activity, your students will gain a greater understanding of life abroad by comparing their answers to a series of questions with the answers from someone in another part of the world.
Ask each student to write down their answers to the following questions:
- How old are you?
- Where do you live (city/region and country)?
- Describe a typical day of the week for you. What are your daily responsibilities in your family? What do you do in your free time?
- What is your favorite game or sport?
- What is your favorite holiday? Describe what you do to celebrate the holiday.
- What is your favorite food?
- What do you worry most about? Why?
- What is more important to you? Why?
Access the full lesson plan, including learning standards correlations.
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Regional Quiz
How much do you know about the region of
Scandinavia?
Test your knowledge with these tidbits from CultureGrams:
- What country, known as the "land of fire and ice," is one of the most active volcanic countries in the world?
- What is the only Scandinavian country to adopt the euro as its national currency?
- The flags of Scandinavian countries feature what symbol?
- What archipelago of 18 islands in the North Atlantic is officially an autonomous, self-governing nation within the Kingdom of Denmark?
- What country sponsors the Nobel Peace Prize?
- What is Denmark's capital, where 1/4 of Danes live?
- What small indigenous minority, known for its traditional practice of reindeer herding, lives in northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland?
- In what country is spending time in the sauna considered a national pastime?
- Modern Scandinavian languages descend from the language of the Vikings, which is known as what?
- Which country publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world?
Answers: 1) Iceland. 2) Finland. 3) A cross offset to the left-hand side. 4) The Faroe Islands. 5) Norway (Sweden sponsors all other Nobel prizes). 6) Copenhagen. 7) The Sami (pronounced "SAW-me"), also known as Laplanders. 8) Finland. 9) Old Norse. 10) Iceland.
Did you know...
- In the Faroe Islands (our newest country addition), a longstanding tradition is the pilot whale hunt (grindadrap), in which islanders kill the whales after using boats to herd them into shallow waters. Anti-whaling groups have condemned the practice, but Faroese maintain that the hunt is limited and done as humanely as possible. The hunt and the consumption of pilot whale meat (grind) remain important to Faroese identity.
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World Holidays
Holidays provide a great way to introduce students to the culture and history of a country. "Observe" a world holiday in your classroom by asking students to research the holiday's origins or learn more about a particular aspect of the country.
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Focus on a U.S. State: Delaware
The First State is 49th in size. Only Rhode Island is smaller. In one area, Delaware is only 9 miles (14 km) wide. It also has the lowest elevation of any state. Despite the state's small size, you can find beaches, swamps, fertile plains, freshwater ponds, rivers, and forests there.
More than half of Delaware's days are sunny. The humid summers are cooled by breezes from the coast, giving Delaware a fairly mild climate. Although Delaware ranks 45th in total population, it is actually the seventh most densely populated state in the country! Most Delawareans live in urban areas. The north holds two-thirds of the people.
Here are some more interesting facts about Delaware:
- Delaware is known as the First State because it was the first of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution.
- On the first weekend after Halloween, the city of Millsboro hosts the Punkin' Chunkin' World Championship. Teams build their preferred pumpkin hurling devices and compete to see who can launch their pumpkin the furthest.
- Thomas Garret devoted his life and fortune to fighting slavery; people say he helped more than two thousand slaves through the Underground Railroad.
- The town of Delmar is located right on the border between Delaware and Maryland and is known as the Little Town Too Big for One State.
- American space suits are made here.
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Fall '09 CultureGrams Podcast
New Countries, Interviews & More
  
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CultureGrams Photo Gallery Pick
Kamanjab, Namibia, September 2008
Himba Woman:
Women of the Himba tribe wear very little clothing but have many accessories. They may wear a combination of necklaces, bracelets, belts, and anklets, all of which are made of leather and heavy metallic beads. These accessories serve as decoration but certain designs can also indicate if the woman is married, how many children she has, and even if one of her children has died.
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SIRS Spotlights + Challenge Quests
Advocates of childhood vaccinations insist that vaccines protect children from deadly diseases and are among the most significant health advances in history.
Our new SIRS Spotlight of the Month explores the issues of immunization safety and requirements, the vaccine-autism debate, and various global initiatives to immunize.
In 1963, a measles vaccine became available, nearly eliminating this deadly disease from developed countries.
SIRS asks: From 2001 to 2008, more than 500 million children in 60 countries were vaccinated under a new program. This effort helped reduce global deaths from measles by what percent?
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