BITS OF CULTURE - Greenland
Languages
Map
Cultural Values
Main Religion & Death Concepts/Rituals
Health Care Values
Diet
Interesting Facts
Languages
Official language:
Greenlandic
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Map
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Cultural Values
Evangelical Lutheran
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Main Religion & Death Concepts/Rituals
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Health Care Values
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Diet
They hunt seals and other animals to eat the meat and use the blubber for fuel.
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Interesting Facts
Greenland is the source of many of the weather changes in the northern hemisphere.
World's largest island. Approx. 85% covered with ice.
To encourage his fellow Norsemen to go to a large land of ice and snow that he discovered in 982 A.D., Eric the Red named it Greenland.
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