Countries

Group 4Anna NigicserEszter AdamikMooYung Sun

Saro Kkć

Country presentation• The choice of the country I will present is a bit

difficult for me, because I am Croatian, but my parents are from Bosnia and Hercegovina, and I was born and raised in Germany. So actually I would have to present three countries because all of them had and have an impact on me. To make it easy. Because I am studying in Germany, I will present this country and a little bit my hometown Coburg.

• Germany as approximately 82 Million inhabitants, and thus the most populated country in Europe. It covers a territory of around 360.000 km² and is divided in 16 federal states (dt.: Bundesländer). It lies in the Centre of Europe with the following 9 neighboring countries:

• Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium,The Netherlands

• The official language is German and the Capital is Berlin. The national holiday is the 3rd of October, the day of the official unification of East and West Germany, and the national anthem is the third stanza of “The song of the Germans”.

Country presentation• Geographically is Germany a diverse country, because in the North it is bordering the North and the Baltic

Sea and in the South the Alps (these are around 876 km!).• The political system is a federal, representative democracy. The judicial power is the

Bundesverfassungsgericht, the legislative is the Bundestag and the Bundesrat (which consists of the federal governments) and the executive power is the national government. The head of state is Christian Wulff and the head of government is Chancellor Angela Merkel, from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. As Germany has a multiparty system, you can find all in all 5 major parties on the national level:

Christian Democratic Union of Germany / Christian Social Union of Bavaria(CDU/CSU), Socialdemocratic Party of Germany (SPD), Free Democratic Party (FDP), Bündnis 90/ The Greens,The Left. The government consists at the moment of two parties, the CDU/CSU and the FDP.

Germany is founding member of the European Union and is moreover member of the United Nations, the NATO, OSCE, OECD, Council of Europe and the G8 and G20.The German Economy is, measured with the nominal GDP, the biggest national economy in Europe and the 4 th biggest in the world. The GDP is about $ 3.667 Billion. Germany is with 16 other countries part of the Eurozone, i.e. the currency is the Euro.

Country presentation• My hometown Coburg lies in the North of

Bavaria in the Region Oberfranken. It has around 41.000 inhabitants and consists of 12 parts. The next bigger city is Nürnberg. The landmark of the city is the Veste Coburg, the second biggest castle in Germany.

• Due to the fact, that Coburg was once a dukedom, it is rich of historical buildings as its theater, another castle in the city center, the “Ehrenburg”, and other statues, e.g. from the former princes. Probably the most famous prince was Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who was married with Queen Victoria of United Kingdom and Ireland.

The German population and culture is actually pretty diverse. The “land of poets and thinkers” as it is called, produced a lot of outstanding people and geniuses as to mention the poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fridrich Schiller, philosophers as Emmanuel Kant, Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche, classical composers as Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, but as well famous scientists like Karl Benz or Albert Einstein.Still today Germans are well known for their strengths in especially sciences and innovations. Big enterprises as Volkswagen, Siemens, BASF or ThyssenKrupp are well known all around the world.Germany is on place number two, after the United States, in applying for a patent. And who could imagine to live without a car, a TV or toothpaste?

Country presentation•The “everyday culture” of Germans consists of more than just being punctual, keeping order and working hard. As already mentioned, just looking on the big territory shows, that German culture is pretty diverse. Every region has its own traditions,e.g. there are around 53 different dialects.

•An integral part of German culture are sports. Especially soccer is the most popular sport. Anyway, more than 27,5 Million Germans are member in a sports club, this is a third of the population.

•To have a closer look on the people living in Germany, around 19.6% of people have a “Migration background” and 7.2 million foreigners are living in Germany. Migration background means all people who immigrated after 1950 and their descendants. The biggest groups are from:•Turkey, Russia, Poland, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine.

“OUR” COUNTRY : Korea

Based on the conti-nental culture : They

love oily food

Frankly speaking, we have a “victim mentality” with

China and Japan. Our culture is based on the peninsula culture, it means “mixed” but nobody

want to talk we are mixed

Based on the Island culture(Ocean-ori-ented) : They love

fishes

“OUR” COUNTRY : Korea

As I said it before, Korean Culture is really team-oriented! We value on Society such as family or local society. That is the reason why I call my country as “OUR” country. In many case we use “our” not my. For instance, when we introduce the family, we use the ‘our-expression’ such as our-parents, our sister, our grandpa… So when you work with Korean, you should keep their time for his or her family activity

Traditional Korean food

Traditional Music

Korea… Yeah it’s between China and Japan. Both of them have really strong

characteristic and history. But we also have pride on our culture’s autonomy! For half ten thousands

years, we have continued our culture. We lost our

control for 100 years(Mongol50+Japan50

) it is just 2% of our history!

China, Japan, and Korea have similar but different

culture

“OUR” COUNTRY : Korea ( Why we don’t like China, and Japan)

B.C. 2333 Founded

Continue to fight against

China

16c. Japanese Sudden attack

(How dare you!)

We handed a lot of cultures to

Japan Victory after 7 years war

For fifty years Japan

Governed our country!

(How dare you 2!)

1945.

Separated

“OUR” COUNTRY : Korea and Korea

What do you think about the North Korea?

1. Our government teach us North Korea is our enemy!

2. Some of South Koreans really want to make war to conquer the North part.

3. Government motivate the “Some Koreans” for their longer political life.

4. Some of South Koreans have family on North part.

5. And they are starving now

6. China – help them Korea – fight them Now North Koreans are more friendly with Chinese than

South Koreans… That’s the problem!

The capital of Hungary is Budapest, which is the biggest city in my country, it has 1 733 685 inhabitants.

Our currency is the Forint

Over-populationUralic-speaking people split-up

• Ungrian speakers distinguished• settled down

Jewish religion

Hungarian language is related to finnish

nomadism

plunderageEntering the Carpathian Basinin the 890ies

The latest scientific research refutes the claim that Hungarians are genetically related to the Finn-Ugric peoples.

The Asiatic origin of 9-bp is completely missing from the Hungarian population. We have found the Asiatic M haplo-group in the Finns, the Ezras and the Lapps, but we did not find it in a single Hungarian individual tested.

Our origin: a contentious issue

•coronation→ Joined Chrisitanity•Independent Hungarian Kingdom

1001.1920. Trianon peace-treaty

1949-1989.People's Republic of Hungary•Under the guidance of the Soviet-Union• Kommunist period

19. centuryReform-period•culture•Hungarian Academy of Sciences• economy booming

1848-49. National independence struggle and revolution

1458-90.Matthias Corvinus

1526.Battle of Mohács

Turkmen took a huge part of Hungary

• in april 2011 the estimated population: 9 972 000

• the population decline since 1981 is 737 000, and without

the migrant hungarians coming from the neighbouring

countries it would be 1 000 000.

• 1,3 child/women

• the number of women between 20-35 years who give birth

to a child is decreasing, while the number of women giving

birth to a child between 35-39 years is on the increase

• this process affects negatively the healthcare,

the social security and the economy

So we need more hungarian babies!!!

One of our great problem apart from our badly performing economy is that the population of hungary is decreasing

Visegrád + Danube Bend: just a beautiful view from the castle on the top of the hill. Visegrád was for several centuries the royal seat of Hungary. Our capital: Budapest, is

included on the UNESCO list with it’s beautiful medieval Buda Castle quarter, the romantic Danube riverscape , termal bath’s and the city’s stunning architecture.

Just a few sights of Hungary we’re proud of…

Héviz: here is the worl’s largest termal lake suitable for bathing all year, since it’s temperature never drops below 79 F/ 26 C.

Pécs: a cultural stronghold with both Roman and Turkish architecture. The city has a srtreet lined with museums and Pécs was the European Capitual of Culture in 2010.

Just a few famous Hungarian people we’re proud of…

Béla Bartók took inspiration from the traditional folk music of the country’s

villages for his compositions during the early 20th century.

The wild-haired Ferenc Liszt needs a little introduction; the 19th century composer and pianist is one of the greats in the canon of classical music, and established a musical academy in the capital, Budapest.

Zoltán Kodály, born just a year after

Bartók, was similarly fascinated by folk songs. As well as

writing, Kodáyl famously devised a unique and radical

way of teaching music to students.

I think it’s not a secret, that Hungarians have always been good at music, so I’d like to introduce three musicians who stend out from the croud:

Just a few famous Hungarian people we’re proud of…

Ferenc Puskás, captain of the all-conquering Hungarian football team of the 1950s, passed away in 2006 having staked his claim to being one of the greatest footballers ever.

Hungarian inventions range from the life-changing to the purely entertaining. Albert Szent-Györgyi was the first to discover vitamin C, after extracting it from paprika in the 1930s.

It was Ernő Rubik who came up with the world’s best-known toy – the coloured cube puzzle: Rubic’s cube