Cultura

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I. Define the following.
1. Define culture.
Culture refers to the following ways of life, including but not limited to: lenguage, arts & sciences, thought, spirituality, social activity,interaction.
All of the above collectively define the meaning of Culture.






2. Tell the reason of the existence of the KKK.


Six well-educated Confederate veterans fromPulaski, Tennessee, created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos (κυκλος, circle)with clan. The group was known for a short time as the "Kuklux Clan." The Ku Klux Klan was one among a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence, including the Southern Cross in NewOrleans (1865), and the Knights of the White Camelia (1867) in Louisiana.
Historians generally see the KKK as part of the postwar insurgent violence related not only to the high number of veteransin the population, but also to their effort to control the dramatically changed social situation by using extrajudicial means to restore white supremacy. In 1866, Mississippi Governor William L.Sharkey reported that disorder, lack of control and lawlessness were widespread; in some states armed bands of Confederate soldiers roamed at will. The Klan used public violence against blacks asintimidation. They burned houses, and attacked and killed blacks, leaving their bodies on the roads.
Many different groups had emigrated to America over the years. One group - the Blacks - had beenbrought there against their will and after the success of the northern states during the Civil War and the freeing of the Blacks from slavery in 1865, a sinister group was established which was designedto spread fear throughout the Black population that still lived in the southern states. This was the KKK. Only WASP’s could belong to it —  White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It is a common myth that the...
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