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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Cultural Universals(3), Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Economics The definition of economics is the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind. Canada's natural recourses are petroleum and natural gas, hydroelectric power, metals and minerals, fish, forests, wildlife, abundant fresh water. In December 1997 the unemployment rate for unemployment in Canada was 8.6%. The total value for exports in Canada are $208.6 billion. The basic recourses and agricultural products are newsprint, wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, machinery, natural gas, aluminum, motor vehicles and parts and telecommunications equipment. Partners for Canadian exports are US, Japan, UK, Germany, South Korea, Netherlands and China The total value for Imports in Canada are $194.4 billion. The basic recourses and agricultural products are crude oil, chemicals, motor vehicles and parts, durable consumer goods, computers and telecommunications equipment and parts. The partners for Canadian Imports are US, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea. Canada is in debt externally since 1996 $253 billion dollars. The Canadian currency is 1 Canadian dollar=100 cents. Economy of US effects the Economy of Canada We Buy 25% of Canada's goods. Canada buys 85% of our goods, Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Government Political Organization of Canada Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Canada, and Head of State. She distributes the powers of judicial, legislative, and executive branches of the Canadian government. This is very complicated, Canada's government consists of two parts: federal, and parliament. There is a federal government because each province has its own local power, and each province has senates. Canada's parliament consists of three components: Legislative, sovereign, and the senate. The Canadian is considered a Parliamentary Monarchy, it has a parliament, and a queen. Person in most power is Prime Minister. House of Commons is the parliament and it reports to the prime minister. It starts like this: The queen appoints a Governor general, then the GG appoints the prime minister, the PM is the head of the government, the PM is also the head of the House of Commons. The GG is Michaelle Jean, the GG is also the head of the Military during the time of war. The PM is Stephen Harper, he is the head of parliament and the Cabinet., Eight of the Major Universals Culture - The sum total of the way of living of a group of humans that can be transmitted from generation to generation. These elements of culture can be found in all groups of people. They are not uniform, but they are universal. For example when applited to Canada Section 3, Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Art in Canada Art in Canada has been around for a long time, and over time changed and has branched out in different types too. Painting, like most other countries, have been around for hundreds of years. Also there are many schools, like Ontario's Collage of Art (founded in 1875) that greatly supports many people that want to be artists. Aside from original arts like painting and drawing, there is also sculpture, decorative arts, and graphic designing. Like the other arts, these are also greatly supported by schools an organizations that are centered around the arts. The architecture of Canada's buildings are based mostly off of European and American trends in architecture especially for public buildings. Along with traditional art, there also many schools in Canada that support theatrical arts too, along with musical arts., Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Food, Clothing, and Shelter Food in Canada Canadian meals are usually very informal other than supper. Canadians usually eat breakfast between 7 am and 8:30 am. Many families breakfast is quick and casual. Coffee cereal, toast, bacon. A Canadian breakfast are very similar to American breakfasts. Lunch in Canada is between 12pm and 1pm. A Canadian lunch usually includes of soup, salad, sandwiches. On school days, a “bagged lunch” has a sandwich, fruit, a cookie, or muffin. A Canadian supper or dinner the largest and most formal meal. Canadians usually eat supper between 5 pm and 6:30pm and usually consists of soup or salad before the main course. A dessert is like pie or ice- cream. Every year during Thanksgiving weekend CBC's Ian Brown picks one food to represent Canada. Last year Tourtiére was chosen. Tourtiére is a popular Quebec dish that is older than the butter tart and Nanaimo bar, two other popular dishes. In tourtiére can be eaten with a slice of saskatoon berry pie. Another favorite food id apple pie. The pie is made with McIntosh apples and Canadian chedder cheese. Some people “say grace” before dinner. If a person does do not accept something the first time it is offered, it is sometimes assumed that you don't want anything to eat or drink. Canada Clothing, Shelter During the time of World War 2, most canadian families lived in a house with one telephone, and siblings sleep in one bedroom. Grandparents would visit a lot. When women married they were expected to stay at home and take care of the children. Now, children most likely have their own rooms. They also have computers, internet access, cell-phones, television. Also children do stuff like going to the mall and sports. Women are not expected to stay at home. They can be successful and have jobs. Families are now smaller than they were, and many people live alone. Clothing Some cities in Canada are competing in fashion weeks. The fashion in Canada sometimes has a European theme. There is a Fashion Week in Montreal every Spring and Fall. Toronto has a L'Oreal Fashion Week every Spring and Fall as well. The fashion weeks are giving Canada international attention. Some famous designers are Lida Baday, and Judith Desjardins. A famous company is Pink Tartan. Many eauropen designers are interested in Canadian fashion., Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Language Communication- Body Language- Most Canadians shake hands when they greet each other. Other mannerisms of Canadians are they sometimes touch each other on the shoulder or elbow but unlike the french they do not kiss each other on the cheeks when they are greeted by one another. Spoken Language- Canadian French is what the Canadian speak. It is very common in Canada to use both french, Canadian french, and English in an average day. There are also aboriginal languages which are not common to speak and only spoken by 1 percent of Canadians. English is 67.1%, French is 19.1%, Chinese 2.6%, Punjabi 0.9%, Spanish 0.7%, Italian 0.6%, Ukrainian 0.5%, Arabic 0.5%, German 0.4%, Tagalog 0.4%, Vietnamese 0.4%, Portuguese 0.3%, Urdu 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Korean 0.3%, Persian 0.3%, Russian 0.3%, Tamil 0.3%, Greek 0.2%, Gujarati 0.2%, Romanian 0.2%., Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Religion: Cathilic, Protestant, Christain Orthadox, Christan, Muslum, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Slkh. Main Religion is Cathlic Same things as in America a lot of hate crimes in canda Death Rituals: They Burry people the same There is a weiwing held for 4 days A mass dedicated to the dead before and after there funeral. The have a wake then they burry the person before people die they have wills and they dontate body parts to sience you are officaly dead when your brain waves are no longer detected funeral homes are a service industrie In places like Ontario you must have a funeral director ( it cost money) They tumb stones, markrs, and flowers, Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Recreation Canada Basketball James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian College in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), J ames Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball. The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored. The Ice Hockey is unknown to the rest of the world, however, ice hockey probably evolved from the game of field hockey that has been played in Northern Europe for centuries. The rules of modern ice hockey were devised by Canadian J G A Creighton. In 1875, the first game of ice hockey with Creighton's rules was played in Montreal, Canada. Today ice hockey is very important to the world because many people are trying to get more people on there team or money is very important too. Back in the day the puck was a strong rubber that was very hard. The first artificial ice rink was built in 1876, at Chelsea, London England. It was named the Glaciarium. It was buil near the King's Road in London by John Gamgee. Today, modern ice rinks are kept clean and smooth by the use of machine called the zamboni. Rugby Canada Rugby football has a long history in Canada dating back to its initial appearance in the 1860's. Introduction of the game and its early growth is generally credited to immigrants, members of the regimental armies, and to the Royal Navy in Halifax, NS and Esquimalt, BC. . The first game of rugby recorded in Canada took place in Montreal among artillery men in 1864. That same year, T rinity College in Toronto, published the first set of rules for the game of rugby in Canada. In 1868, the first club, the Montreal Football Club was formed. It was six years later, in 1874 when the first North American international game took place in Cambridge, MA between McGill and Harvard Universities. Later that year, Ontario and Quebec played the first interprovincial match in Canada. O, Canada Section 3 can be broken down into the following categories Social Organization The results of the 1996 show that “married couple families” are still a large majority of the failies. Eversince 1986, the proportion has gone from 80 percentile range to the 74 percentile range due to the substantial increases of both the common law and the lone parent families. In 1996 there were over 5.8 million married couples living in Canada. Although legal marriage's still is still a perfered lifestyle of the majority of Canadian adults, however, marriage is now taking place later on in a persons life. There has also been the increase in the couples who have not married at all. Research has indicated the fluctuating marriges rate has been taking the place with the social and economic indicators over the past seventy years. This has caused some people to go without finnacial security to allow people to postpone or not marry at all. This also happened during the depressions when there was the lowest marriage rate where it would be 6 people out of a 1000 instead something like 425 people out of 1000 people. The highest was in 1960 were it was 950 out of 1000 people. The common law union marriages have been more likely to be found in the New Brunswick area were there is a larger population where they speak french. Another area where there is a large amount of french speaking people where there is 25 percent of the french speaking people. One of the lower parts that speak french is in Ontario. Their has been an increase in the amount of Common law couples from 8 percent to 25 percent. Family and Kin & Human Environment Interaction Today, 77 percent of Canada's population live in cities. There are more than 20 metropolitan areas with a population of 100,000 people or more. The invention of the canal lock, which is “an enclosed area on a canal that raises or lowers ships from one water level to another” (Baerwald, 183-184). “Because of increase in separation, divorce, remarriage common-law unions, and lone-parent families” Canadian families have become more diverse over the past twenty years. Most families in Canada are married families, but this has decreased from 80 perecent to 74 percent since 1986. Married families are more commonly found in the Prairies Provinces, southern Ontario, and Newfoundland. Lone-parent families are more commonly found in urban communities. Lone-parent families has increased by 33 percent between 1986 and 1996. Lone-parents families are 22 percent of Canada's population.