Socio-Cultural Analysis

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Andorra Our own field manual for Counterinsurgency, FM 3-24, defines culture as the basis of how people interpret, understand, and respond to events and people around them. Understanding what a population’s culture is and how all of our actions can affect a population allows us to be successful in all of our missions. In this essay I will be using the tiny principality of Andorra located inside the Pyrenees Mountains to show how to prepare a socio-cultural analysis to understand the culture or a region. We can better study our target community by breaking down culture into five distinct aspects. The biggest aspects of culture are symbols, language, tools, values, and transportation (Barkan, 2016). Symbols have the ability to be non-verbal, …show more content…
Seen from the length of time they dismissed all German citizens to the craftsmanship of everyday objects, Andorrans will always be proud of their accomplishments. A sense of communal responsibility keeps their pride in balance with their hubris (O 'Conner, 1913). During harsher falls with lower farm yields is it common for all citizens to give everything they have to the town and have the food and goods divided up evenly. An underlying idea of community creates a social acceptance instead of a law (Riding, 2009). Today Andorrans support those less fortunate by a higher rate than the surrounding communities (CIA, …show more content…
Their capitol of Andorra la Vella does over three fourths of their tourism. Nature trails and skiing are the biggest attractions in Andorra, just as they are the biggest hobbies of the locals. Andorra invests their interest in the world market more than the European market due to not being part of the European Union (EU). They created a tax haven for multiple European business allowing them to skirt EU tax laws and local regulations. Most of the EU has not taken action against Andorra due to their fiscal ambiguity with the understanding that they will always report if any of the business using their banks are violating any EU laws. Andorra uses the Euro as their currency as an agreement allowing them to maintain their current fiscal independence from the EU (Riding, 2009). Understanding this is it important to realize that Andorra might be a little principality but its bank represents over 19 trillion in global

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