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FM 3-24 defines culture by the following five main characteristics: 1) A system of shared beliefs, customs, values, behaviors and artifacts. 2) Having acquired culture through a process of gradual acquisition. 3) Shared by members of society, there is no culture of one single individual. 4) Patterned forms of thinking and acting. 5) Changeable through social interactions with others. Furthermore, culture is the manifestation and shared cognition within a group of people who collectively concur traditions along with other practices. Venezuela’s cultural population roots from Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African and indigenous ethnicities (Belanger 1). Belanger’s article states that according to the CIA’s World Factbook over ninety-six percent of its population is Catholic (2). One of their most influential cultural figures is Simon Bolivar,