chapter 1  cultural background of middle east and persian gulf oil producing countries  1.1  islam,traditional arab and bedouin culture revolves in emirati culture  1.2  influence of islamic and arab culture in kuwait  1.3  iran culture, a mix of ancient pre - islamic culture and islamic culture  1.4  "mesopotamia", iraq is the home to successive civilizations  1.5  saudi arabia, conservative country with centuries - old traditionschapter 2  south american oil producing countries  2.1  blending of indigenous cultures and the spanish culture in mexico  2.2  venezuela, the melting pot of three different families: the indigenous, african and spanish  2.3  core culture of brazil is derived from portuguese culturechapter 3  european and north american oil producing countries  3.1  five famous symbols of american culture  3.2  danish national church,a lutheran church  3.3  unique norwegian farm culturechapter 4  russian oil producing countries  4.1  distinctive eastern orthodox church  4.2  cultural diversity in the soviet union and russiachapter 5  african oil producing countries  5.1  the largest oil producing country in africa and its cultural traits  5.2  religious clashes in nigeria  5.3  the arabized berber in algeria  5.4  ethnic and racial divisions leading to the splitting of sudan  5.5  cradle of civilization in africachapter 6  asian and pacific area oil producing countries  6.1  the "oldest living civilization of earth"   6.2  the muhicuhural indonesia  6.3  multiracial, diverse and unique malaysian culturechinese translation and key to exercisesreferences