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Culture Of North Korea

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The Culture of North Korea
What is culture? Culture is everything, simple but a complex make up of a people that binds us together. The word culture is broad and encompassing. There is no simple, universally accepted definition of the word culture. It is by definition: the behavior and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic or age group. It is characterized a group of peoples’ traditions, religion, food, customs and language. Culture is dynamic. Culture is static. It both changes with the times and withstands the test of time. Culture is what will be left of us as people when we as people are gone. Culture in my opinion is a peoples’ way of life. Our culture permeates into every detail of our daily lives and we seldom notice it. Our culture celebrates independence with explosions in the sky on the fourth day in July. It is our freedom to practice a faith of our choice. It is hot dogs and hamburgers. It is a firm handshake and a 26 letter phonetic alphabet. All of these things help to define us as Americans and make us who we are. They are all a part of American culture. There are thousands of different cultures and subcultures in the world. Some of them share some customs and ideas, but they are all still very different and distinct from one another. One of the most unique cultures on our planet is North Korea.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s formal name, is the northern section of the peninsula above the 38th

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