Cultural Awareness Of Venezuela

Cultural Awareness of Venezuela
According to Cristina De Rossi, an anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College in London, Culture is the patterns of social behavior and different norms found in human societies. Also culture involves religion, language we speak, the way we view things, what we think is right or wrong, how we dress, the way we greet and talk to other people, and a lot of other things (Zimmerman, 2017). Building cultural awareness is not easy, there are many factors that need to be taken into perspective when building Cultural Awareness, some of the factors to take into consideration are social structure, language, economics, physical geography, and military. All of these are key characteristics are essential for people to

The Spanish language was introduced by the conquistadors from the Canary Islands. Caracas dialect, Zulian dialect, Lara dialect, Andean dialect, and Margaritan dialect are some of Venezuela Spanish sub dialects spoken in different parts of the country. Indigenous people are moving to the city and as a result, most of their dialects are being swept out. In some distant regions of Venezuela, Indians are not familiarized with Spanish, they can only speak their own native language. The most native dialects spoken in are Warao, Wayuu, Panare, Piaora, Kahlihna, Guahibo, Pemon, Yanomami, and Manuhuaca. In Venezuela English is a mandatory subject taught while attending high school and the bachillerato, which is equivalent to a college education. English became popular in the country as a result of the oil companies from different countries that speak English. Another language taught as a mandatory subject its French, students are taught French grammar the first year, and the second year they learn how to create and decipher texts in French. Some of the other languages spoken in Venezuela are Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, and German (Martz, Heckel, McCoy & Lieuwen,

The production and exploitation of petroleum is what the Venezuelan economy primarily based on. Iron ore, nickel, coal, and hydroelectric power have improved their economy as well. Petroleum, and natural gas are the most economically significant natural resources, while hydroelectricity provides about half of the country’s electric power. Prior to the exportation of the large scale of oil, fishing, forestry, and agriculture were central to the economy, producing more than half gross domestic product. Coffee is the main cash crop of Venezuela. Most farms in Venezuela are normally organized into three basic types. The first ones are the commercial crop farms, which it covers more than 50 acres, these farms have beneficiated from government provisions of credit. The second type is the family farm, it’s usually small in size, and it’s leased by the farmer. These farm produces food for local consumption. And finally the third type is the large pastoral farms, these are usually more than 6000 acres, commonly found in the llanos. Pastoral farms are used for grazing cattle on the low quality grass. And last but not least tourism is another growing component of Venezuela’s economy. (Martz, Heckel, McCoy & Lieuwen, 2018).
The Venezuelan war of independence (1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in Latin America fought against