The Stranger Book Report

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As civilizations progress over the course of hundreds of years, interaction is bound to happen. You can see examples of the mixtures of cultures all over the world. For example, the book The Stranger takes place in the country of Algeria which has a rather interesting collaboration of cultures. Location and outsider influences are the main sources of the components of a culture.
Due to Algeria’s North African location, it has gained many Islamic traits from the neighboring areas. Islam provides the society with its central cultural identity, most with their ethics and views, and language. Arabic is deeply based off of the writing of the Quran and has taken words from different languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Persian and Syriac. Arabic

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