Culture Is A Way of Life

A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and
symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are
passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
The culture of India is the way of living of the people of India. India's
languages, religions, dance, music differs from others as for a different type of
dance has its own music, architecture, food, and customs differs from place to
place within the country.
The culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of tribes
that each have their own unique characteristics. It is a product of the diverse
populations that today inhabit the continent of Africa and the African Diaspora.
African culture is expressed in its arts and crafts, folklore and religion, clothing,
cuisine, music and languages.[1]
The culture of the United States of America is primarily Western, but is
influenced by African, Native American, Asian, Polynesian, and Latin American
cultures. A strand of what may be described as American culture started its
formation over 10,000 years ago with the migration of Paleo-Indians from Asia,
Oceania, and Europe, into the region that is today the continental United States.
The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over the millennia, from the country's
prehistoric Jmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs
influences from Asia, Europe, and North America.
It is influenced by the UK's history as a developed island country, a liberal
democracy and a major power, its predominantly Christian religious life, and its
composition of four countriesEngland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
each of which has distinct customs, cultures and symbolism.
Historically, French culture was influenced by Celtic and Gallo-Roman cultures as well as
the Franks, a Germanic tribe. France was initially defined as the western area of Germany
known as Rhineland but it later came to refer to a territory that was known as Gaul during the
Iron Age and Roman era.Jan 21, 2015
While German exerts its influence on the countries that
border it Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland all of these cultures have, in varying
degrees, had a hand in shaping today's Germany.
The culture of Australia is essentially a Western culture influenced by the unique
geography of the Australian continent, the diverse input of Aboriginal, Torres
Strait Islander and other Oceanian people, the British colonisation of Australia
that began in 1788, and the various waves of multi-ethnic migration
TRADE
Part I on Major Trends in Developing Countries' Trade Performance documents a number of key
developments in world merchandise trade:See footnote 1
* The share of manufactures in world merchandise trade fluctuated in the range of 55-60 per
cent between 1973 and 1985, then increased sharply, reaching 75 per cent by 1995.
* After peaking at 28 per cent in 1980 (mainly due to exports of fuels), the share of developing
countries in world merchandise trade declined until the second half of the 1980s, after which it
resumed growing as petroleum prices bottomed out and the developing countries continued to
expand their share of world trade in manufactures.
* Since 1980, the share of developing countries in world exports of mining products (mainly
fuels) has fallen by a quarter, while their share of world trade in manufactures has doubled from 10
to 20 per cent.
* As a group, the Asian developing countries have out-performed the other developing
countries by a wide margin in terms of their share of world trade, their share of FDI flows to
developing countries, and their ratio of trade-to-GDP.
* A comparison of 25 developing countries whose export growth between 1985 and 1994
exceeded the world average, and a group of 35 developing countries whose exports in 1994 were
below the 1985 level, shows a high correlation between export performance and the share of
manufactured goods in merchandise exports.
* A comparison of the export performance of the least developed countries (LLDCs) since 1980
with that of all developing countries confirms not only a strong correlation between export
performance and the share of manufactures in exports, but a similar positive correlation between
exports and both the share of investment in GDP and the share of manufactures in GDP. (This point
and the preceding one are supported by the results of a recent World Bank study summarized in Box
1.)
ECONOMY
World economy
Statistics
Population
7.095 billion (July 2013 est.) [1]
GDP
Nominal: $77.609 trillion (2014 est.) [1] PPP: $106.998 trillion (2014 est.) [1]
GDP growth 3.4% (2014)
GDP per capita Nominal: $10,857 PPP: $15,073 (2014 est.)
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The world economy or global economy is the economy of the world,
considered as the international exchange of goods and services that is expressed
in monetary units of account (money).[5] In some contexts, the two terms are
distinguished: the "international" or "global economy" being measured
separately and distinguished from national economies while the "world
economy" is simply an aggregate of the separate countries' measurements.
Beyond the minimum standard concerning value in production, use, and
exchange the definitions, representations, models, and valuations of the world
economy vary widely. It is inseparable from the geography and ecology of Earth.

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