Cultural Communities

Some articles on cultural communities, cultural, communities:

History Of Belgium - Postwar Belgium - The Rise of The Federal State
... In 1970, there was a first state reform, which resulted in the establishment of three cultural communities the Dutch Cultural Community, the French Cultural Community and ... This reform was a response to the Flemish demand for cultural autonomy ... The second state reform took place in 1980, when the cultural communities became Communities ...
Demographics Of Peru - Ethnic Groups
... indigenous or ethnic groups are the Quechuas (belonging to various cultural subgroups), followed by the Aymaras, mostly found in the extreme southern Andes ... highlands still speak Quechua or Aymara, and have vibrant cultural traditions, some of which were part of the Inca Empire, arguably the most advanced agricultural ... Historic communities inhabited by people of Chinese descent are found throughout the Peruvian upper Amazon, including cities such as Yurimaguas, Nauta, Iquitos and the north central coast (L ...

Famous quotes containing the words communities and/or cultural:

    “I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
    —Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)