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The culture of Mexico is a blend of native culture (particularly Mesoamerican) with Spanish
culture and other immigrant cultures. In many ways, contemporary life in the cities of Mexico has
become similar to that in neighboring United States and Europe, while most Mexican villagers follow
the older way of life more so than the city dwellers.
Folk dances are a feature of Mexican culture. Significant in dance tradition is the "Jarabe Tapato",
known as "Mexican hat dance". Traditional dancers perform a sequence of hopping steps, heel and
toe tapping movements.
The contemporary culture of South Korea developed from the traditional culture of Korea which
was prevalent in the early Korean nomadic tribes. By maintaining thousands of years of ancient
Korean with influence from ancient Chinese culture South Korea split on its own path of cultural
development away from North Korean culture since the division of Korea in 1948.
The industrialization and urbanization of South Korea, especially Seoul, have brought many changes
to the way Korean people live. Changing economics and lifestyles have led to a concentration of
population in major cities (and depopulation of the rural countryside), with multigenerational households separating into nuclear familyliving arrangements.
GERMANY (the country of poets and thinkers).
German culture as a nation-state and spanned the entire German-speaking world. From its roots,
culture in Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both
religious and secular. Historically Germany has been called Das Land der Dichter und Denker ([