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From the desk ofNash Emilio Fawcett
European – Scandinavia
Capitol is Oslo
Population – 4.99 Million
Languages – ◦ Bokmal (85%-90%)◦ Nyornsk (12%)
5% Catholic
10% Atheist
Church of Norway – 79.2%◦ 80% say religion is UNIMPORTANT◦ 2% attend church regularly – lowest in Europe
Borgund Church
Extremely diverse and homogenous◦ Few people are really excluded◦ Few Subcultures
Black Metal•Started as a genre of music
•Became a satanic pseudo-religion
•Very small subculture
Mostly a western society
Very accepting of women’s, minority and gay rights
May 17 – National Day
Traditional food – fish, reindeer, whales
Large oil production
Large shipping economy
Prosperous, high standard of living, low unemployment
Semi-Socialist◦ State ownership in some areas◦ Petroleum, banking
Vikings!! – raided and settledThe British Isles and Scotland
Reformation – Lutheranism
United with Denmark, conquered by Sweden
Freedom on October 29, 1905
Conquered by Germany in 1945, now part of NATO
Relatively peaceful, few internal conflicts
Very small conflict with Muslim refugees
◦ 2008 – An attack by forty or fifty Muslim Norwegians of Chechen descent against Muslim immigrants from Kurdistan. Five were arrested
Asia – Considered it’s own sub-continent
Capital – New Delhi
Languages – Hindi, English
Population – 1.2 Billion people◦ Billion. With a “B”.◦ 2nd most populous country on earth
Hinduism biggest religion
Also Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism
Large Buddhist influence
Spirituality
Clothes – ◦ Sari (women) dhoti (men)
Arranged marriages –◦ low divorce rate
Food – ◦ curry, naan bread, mithai (desserst)
Youth Subculture◦ Influenced by American, British music
Bengali◦ Native to Bangladesh, now partially an Indian
territory
Parsi◦ Former religious group of Iran, fled to India
Fast growing, prosperous economy
Second most preferred place for investment
Factory jobs, investors, outsourced American jobs
Large wealth gap◦ Crowded cities with a large amount of homeless
One of the oldest civilizations
Started as tribes along the Indus river, taken over by Moguls, then by Turks and Aghanis, then colonized by England, gained independence in 1947
Rampant Poverty
India-Pakistan wars
Overpopulation◦ Crowded cities
99% hydroelectric power
Free college for everyone
Voted most peaceful country on earth
One of the richest countries
•Cold, near arctic climate•Trolls
While I like Norway, I would rather live somewhere warmer, with a less complicated language and fewer towns named after trolls.
Invented numbers 7000 railway
stations on the Indian Railway
Invented Chess
•41.6% live in poverty•1,170,938,000 people•Cyclones, monsoons, landslides, floods
I do not want to live in India, because it is crowded, hot and most people live in poverty. I’d rather stay in the U.S.
Prosperous, well integrated
Democratic republic
Independent, individualistic
Militarily powerful
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