The Greeks of the 5th century BC were not united by statehood or geographical unity; they were a people scattered across islands and shorelines from Asia Minor to the Black Sea to Marseille, a collection of quarrelsome, independent, politically heterogeneous city-states united by language, custom, religion, and, briefly and partially, by enmity to the aggressive Persian empire to their east.
As long as women, through custom, tradition, religion or lack of effective birth control, have too many children to support, the problem will continue.
Inhabiting the westernmost edge of northern China, Uighurs share little in the way of customs, religion and language with Han Chinese.
It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him.
Herodotus, the Greek traveler and historian of the 5th century bc, wrote of some 50 different peoples he encountered or heard of, remarking on their laws, social customs, religion, and appearance.
In four books written during this time Exotics and Retrospective (1898), In Ghostly Japan (1899), Shadowings (1900), and A Japanese Miscellany (1901)—he is informative about the customs, religion, and literature of Japan.
He divided his treatise into eight chapters on the country of the Mongols, their climate, customs, religion, character, history, policy and tactics, and on the best way of resisting them; in a ninth chapter he described the regions traversed.
Mr. Castro wrote that the war in Afghanistan "was the same thing that the U.S.S.R. wanted to do, occupy the country with its powerful armed forces that were ultimately defeated when they ran into its customs, religion and cultural differences".
What a city eats is a potent stew of its own history, economy, geography, customs, religion and immigration patterns.
The undertaking of a project in a different country where language, customs, religion, economic, and political climates all vary requires significant preparation [23].
People who assume that 'the other' is culturally inferior (different language, customs, religion) assume that their national identity -whatever this means to them- is being threatened by the other.
