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Cultural Awareness In Haiti

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Cultural Awareness: Haiti

Cultural awareness serves as a foundation through which a nation becomes aware of its cultural values and beliefs. Further, culture is considered as a trademark for a particular nation. In line with this, this paper will serve as a socio-cultural analysis of Haiti.

Culture Defined

According to Zimmermann (2015), people who share a common characteristics and knowledge in everything—starting from the use of language down to social habits. Further, the Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition defined culture as a shared pattern not only of behaviors but also of interactions which people learn through a process called socialization (as cited in Zimmermann, 2015). Thus, culture is what makes a particular …show more content…

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