Culture is the norms that are socially accepted by a society within a territory. Horton and Hunt defined culture as “everything which is socially shared and learned by the members of a society”. The five characteristics that define and make up Culture are learned, social, shared, transmitted and accumulative (Farooq, 2011). Understanding a region’s cultural characteristics can assist when traveling to another region to avoid disrespecting the locals. Somalia has a very misunderstood culture due to the state collapse, clan war and famine of 1991-1992, many people believe that Somalia is an aggressive, war driven country, but there culture is actually revolved around their values, language, religion and family (Somali social structure, 2017).
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The president was head of the state and the prime minister was head of the government appointed by the president and approved by parliament (Muddassar, 2012). After recovering from a civil war the Somali economy is actually in good physical shape based on livestock, money transfer companies and telecommunications. Somalia’s economy has a traditional as well as modern production with 40% from livestock and 50% from exported goods brining in $270 million. With over half of the populist being self-employed, herders, farmers and independent business owners. Somalia exports fish, charcoal, bananas sugar and corn to India, Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations along with the world’s largest population of camels (Advameg, …show more content…
Somalia’s plain are in the southern portion of the country which is used for farming. Moving northeast along roughly 1,880 miles of coastline, the longest of any African country sits the plateaus with adequate mountainous terrain (Worldatlas.com, 2015). As you can see, Somalia consists of limited land styles which provides locals with many different activities. Somalia is a country with very little seasonal change, staying between 75 and 85 degrees in the low plains and warmer in the plateaus. Throughout the year there are at least two monsoon seasons, June through September and December through March. It does, in fact, rain throughout the year, but is more common in the summer months (Climate,
The president was head of the state and the prime minister was head of the government appointed by the president and approved by parliament (Muddassar, 2012). After recovering from a civil war the Somali economy is actually in good physical shape based on livestock, money transfer companies and telecommunications. Somalia’s economy has a traditional as well as modern production with 40% from livestock and 50% from exported goods brining in $270 million. With over half of the populist being self-employed, herders, farmers and independent business owners. Somalia exports fish, charcoal, bananas sugar and corn to India, Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations along with the world’s largest population of camels (Advameg, …show more content…
Somalia’s plain are in the southern portion of the country which is used for farming. Moving northeast along roughly 1,880 miles of coastline, the longest of any African country sits the plateaus with adequate mountainous terrain (Worldatlas.com, 2015). As you can see, Somalia consists of limited land styles which provides locals with many different activities. Somalia is a country with very little seasonal change, staying between 75 and 85 degrees in the low plains and warmer in the plateaus. Throughout the year there are at least two monsoon seasons, June through September and December through March. It does, in fact, rain throughout the year, but is more common in the summer months (Climate,