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Cultural Differences in Latvia
| Nr. | Chapter | Page. |
| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1. | What is a culture? | 4 |
| 1.1. | Cultures within a society | 5 |
| 1.2. | What are cultural differences? | 5 |
| 1.3 | How to overcome the problems in comunication connected with cultural differences? | 6 |
| 2. | Nationalities in Latvia | 8 |
| 2.1. | Latvian culture | 8 |
| 2.2. | Russian culture | 9 |
| 2.3. | Why learning about other cultures is important? | 10 |
| 2.4. | Other cultures in Latvia | 11 |
| 2.5. | Latvia – multicultural society? | 13 |
| 3. | Fighting Discrimination in Latvia | 14 |
| List of literature | 15 |
Differences between people within any given nation or culture are quite big. Nationality, education, social standing, religion, personality, belief structure, past experience, affection shown in the home, and a myriad of other factors will effect human behavior and culture.
This project is about cultural diferences in Latvia. The authors wanted to compare Latvian nation with other nations (minorities) which mainly live in Latvia. In the previous (2007) year in Latvia there were 60% Latvians, 28.3% Russians, 3,7% Belarussians and many other nations the number of whom are 8%. So, it means, that in Latvia Latvians are only one half of all inhabitants, the other half is foreigners.
The main goal of research: to consider cultural differences, especially Russian and Latvian cultures, comparing traditions, religion, language, education, etc.
The main tasks:
To obtain the needed information on the topic
To do analyse about cultural differences in Latvia
To make conclusions
The methods of research:
Analysis of scientific literature and other information sources
Analysis of questionnaire results.…
Cultures within a society, what are cultural differences, how to overcome the problems in comunication connected with cultural differences; Nationalities in Latvia - Latvian, Russian and other cultures in Latvia, why learning about other cultures is important, Fighting Discrimination in Latvia.
