9 Days Kenya Ultimate Safari Odyssey with Kibera Holiday Safaris
Greenland
1. Prepared by Burakhan Varol to Assistant Associate
Professor Gülşah Gönenli
Class: Comm-101
Subject: Communication in Greenland
2.
3.
4. *
Capital: Nuuk (largest city)
Language: Greenlandic
Area: 2.166.086 km2
(12th largest country)
Water: %81
Population: 56.615
5. - Gunnbjörn Ulfsson discovered Greenland in 900.
- Erik the Red led the Vikings settled Greenland in
986.
- Greenland became a member of European Union
in 1973.
- Greenlandic wanted to leave from EU in 1985.
- Greenland got further autonomy and self rule
from Danmark in 2009
6. - His father commited a murder and he
escaped to sea.
- The Sailors was talking about an
unknown island and he discovered.
- He settled in the Western Greenland.
- He came back to start imigration to
Greenland.
- 25 ships tried to go there but 14 of them
arrived.
- Some ships gave up while some others
disappeared at sea.
7. - Biggest island in the world, is not a continent.
- 81 percent of water
- Avarage temperature is -7°C
- Almost 2 months, Greenlandic do not see sun lights.
8. While the winter season, ice-field expands North America to Russia
9. - There is no official
census data on religion
- They are mostly
Christian
- It is estimated that 85
percent of the
Greenlanders are
members of the Church
of Denmark
10. Ethnic groups :
88% Inuit (including Inuit-Danish mixed)
12% Europeans, mostly Danish
Art:
Tupilaq is an traditional art for Inuits
Music:
Rock and hip-hop is popular kinds of musics in
Greenland and they performed in the 1979
Eurovision Song Contest.
11. - Inuits used to live in Igloos.
Today, it’s an
tradition part of
Inuit culture.
15. Greenlandic down under the snow to looking for mussel when tide happens
It’s really dangerous because water may suddenly come back and sea
level can rise
16. Their favorite meal is Kiviak (Birds)
They save the dish for rainy days
Kiviak is the dish of choice for birthdays
and weddings
17. Polar bears are also a dish for
Greenlandic.
But, sometimes Greenlandics are
a dish for Polar bears.
There are cops for polar bear
security.
Cops are caught polar bears and
carry them to uninhabited ice
islands
19. Now, she aged 20, and a recent graduate of Norway's reindeer college
There are in all 9,785 students distributed among 24 town schools, 62 settlement
schools and one school for the specially handicapped.
20. On January 13th, the entire community comes out to celebrate the
first sunrise of the new year.
21. Football is national sport in Greenland however they are not FIFA member yet.
They took part in the World Men's Handball Championship in Germany,
finishing 22nd in a field of 24 national teams.
24. - It is impolite to raise your voice or gesticulate
in public in Greenland, so modify your tone of
voice and non-verbal gestures accordingly.
- In
Greenland, both
men and women
are equally
involved in the
raising of their
children
- Greenlanders are
individualistic
and egalitarian.
This can be seen
in their gender
equality.
25. Eskimo kiss is the act of pressing the tip of one's nose against another's.