World Cultures Mapped
1 min readAug 15, 2020
A culture is a group of patterns of human activity inside society and the symbolic structures that give importance to such activity. Social norms, religious faiths, and traditions, laws, architecture, dress, are all examples of cultural elements.
Despite the wide variety of cultures, all cultures can be conventionally combined into large groups or clusters. There are several classifications of human cultures.
World Cultural Spheres
The U.S. political specialist Samuel P. Huntington split the world into the “major civilizations”:
– The Catholic and Protestant countries of Europe and their former colonies;
– Orthodox countries;
– Latin America;
– Muslim countries;
– Hindu countries;
– Buddhist countries;
– Countries of tropical Africa
