Ethnic Culture

Today we learned more about Ethnic culture some more. We learned that in the countries of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa, two ethnic groups are dominate the Tutsis and Hutus. Hutus are dominant in one part of Africa and they perscute the Tutis. In another part of Africa the Tutis dominate and persecute the Hutus. This has lead to almost constant war between the groups. The United States and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries. Korea and Japan have primarily one ethnic group. Religion can be both a unifying and disunifying force. There are five major religions in the world today Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Christianity started in 40 AD. Jesus is the central figure in the religion.Paul was another person that helped spread Christianity. Before he was called Paul his name was Saul. Saul was known for persectuting Christians. One day Sual was riding on a horse and was stroke by a light cuasing him to go blind. He was blind for three days until he heard a voice from God telling him to act better. He stopped persecuting  and got his eyesight back. He became a devote Christian and changed his name to Paul. Islam has 1.6-1.7 billion followers and the cental figure is Muhammad, their God.He lived from 570- 632 AD and he did not intend to start a new religion, but to restore the teachings of Adam, Abraham,Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. The Mulims are mostly found in Indonesia, PAkistan, Bahgladesh, and the middle east.