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Cuisine of Quebec
Cuisine of Quebec (cuisine québécoise): regional cooking of French-speaking Quebec, rooted in New France, Indigenous and French traditions, with dishes like tourtière, pâté chinois, poutine, and maple desserts, renamed from canadienne-française in the 1980s.
Cuisine of the Midwestern United States
Cuisine of the Midwestern United States: hearty, lightly seasoned regional cooking of 12 north-central states, also called Heartland or breadbasket cuisine, shaped by German, Scandinavian, and Eastern European immigrants and corn, dairy, and meat agriculture, with dishes like deep-dish pizza, Cincinnati chili, and hotdish.
Cuisine of the Southern United States
Cuisine of the Southern United States: the regional cooking of the American South, also called Southern food or soul food. A fusion of Native American, West African, and European foodways, spanning Cajun, Creole, Lowcountry, and barbecue traditions.
Culinary arts
Culinary arts: the discipline of preparing, cooking, and presenting food, spanning technique, food science, nutrition, culture, and aesthetics; historically a vocational trade, now a formal higher-education field with certification bodies and research programs.
Culinary diplomacy
Culinary diplomacy is the use of food and cuisine to foster cross-cultural understanding and improve international relations. It is a soft power tool used by states worldwide.
Culinary tourism
Culinary tourism, also called food tourism or gastronomy tourism, is intentional, exploratory engagement with unfamiliar foodways. Coined by folklorist Lucy Long (1996), it spans scholarship, industry, and curiosity-driven eating.
Culottes
Culottes are wide, knee-length or calf-length trousers cut to resemble a skirt, from French culotte (breeches). Known for the 1911 jupe-culotte, Norman Norell's 1960 culotte suits, and the sans-culottes of the French Revolution.
Cultural depictions of tigers
Cultural depictions of tigers: images and symbols of Panthera tigris across societies, from Chinese protective deities and Korean hojakdo folk art to Tipu Sultan's emblem, Blake's Tyger, and Korea's Olympic tiger mascots Hodori and Soohorang.
Cultural diversity
Cultural diversity: the manifold ways cultures of groups and societies find expression, defined in UNESCO's 2005 Convention; grounded in the 2001 Universal Declaration, protected by human rights limits, and central to education and cultural-sector policy.
Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage: the tangible and intangible legacy passed down through generations, including monuments, artworks, folklore, and rituals. Defined by UNESCO conventions from 1954 to 2003, notably the 1972 World Heritage and 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions.
Cultural history of the buttocks
Cultural history of the buttocks: how societies represented, clothed, and politicized the rear of the body, from the Venus of Willendorf and Aphrodite Kallipygos through Renaissance art, bustles, Sarah Baartman's exhibition, and modern body-image and surgery trends.
Cultural views on the midriff and navel
Cultural views on the midriff and navel: from exotic dance wear and Production Code censors to Cher's 1975 TV breakthrough, Indian navel symbolism, Beijing Bikini, and 2025 menswear.
Culture and menstruation
Culture and menstruation covers the taboos, rituals, purity rules, and stigma societies attach to menstruation. Key facts: 2.1 billion menstruators, 500 million lacking facilities, and a cultural range from Nepali chhaupadi seclusion to sacred Beng and neutral Rungus views.
Culture of Africa
Culture of Africa: the continent's social practices, arts, and self-expression, centered here on dress and cloth, including kente, àdìrẹ, aṣọ-òkè, bògòlanfini, Kuba cloth, the grand boubou, ankara wax print, and textile trade and industrialization.
Culture of Asia
Culture of Asia: the languages, religions, festivals, arts, and heritage practices of the world's largest continent, spanning Confucian East Asia, South and Southeast Asian traditions, Silk Roads exchange, and UNESCO-safeguarded intangible heritage.
Culture of Australia
Culture of Australia: shaped by the world's oldest continuous living cultures, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions, and multicultural immigration. Distinguished by NAIDOC Week, Garma, 535 annual music festivals, and the Revive national cultural policy.
Culture of Brazil
Culture of Brazil: the hybrid national culture formed by Indigenous, African, and Portuguese roots plus immigrant influences, expressed in festivals, religious syncretism, music, and cuisine, and protected through the 1988 Constitution, Iphan heritage registration, and UNESCO conventions.
Culture of Cambodia
Culture of Cambodia, also called Khmer culture: the language, Theravada Buddhist and Hindu-inflected traditions, Angkor-era architecture, and performing arts of the Khmer people, marked by five UNESCO World Heritage sites, seven intangible heritage elements, and post-1975 cultural revival.
Culture of Canada
Culture of Canada: national celebrations (Canada Day, Celebrate Canada season), a festival sector of roughly 200 major festivals, multiculturalism, Indigenous cultural days, and federal arts funding programs.
Culture of Cuba
Culture of Cuba: the island's Spanish-African creole culture with Chinese and Caribbean influences; Cuban Spanish, Santería, state-directed cultural policy since 1959, the 1961 P.M. ban, and a large diaspora in Miami, New York, Madrid, and Mexico City.
Culture of Egypt
Culture of Egypt: the continuous tradition spanning pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, and Islamic eras to the modern Arabic-speaking state. Also called Misr's civilization; known for Historic Cairo, Al-Azhar, Mahfouz's Nobel-winning literature, 7 UNESCO World Heritage sites, and the 2025 Grand Egyptian Museum.
Culture of England
The culture of England, also called English culture, comprises the customs, language, and arts of England, shaped by settlement, Christianity, and union within the United Kingdom.
Culture of Eritrea
Culture of Eritrea: heritage of Eritrea's peoples, rooted in Aksum, with Tigrinya language, 1960s-rooted music, Italian-influenced cuisine, and the bun coffee ceremony (jebena, three rounds awel, kale'i, baraka) as its central daily ritual.
Culture of France
Culture of France: festivals (7,283 listed; 46% in deficit in 2024), national holidays (14 July since 1880, Fête de la musique 1982), state-led heritage protection since 1830, and live performance drawing 65.4 million spectators in 2024.
Culture of Germany
Culture of Germany: federal, regionally varied culture of ~83.6 million people, also known as deutsche Kultur. Marked by Länder cultural sovereignty, dialects, Tracht, secularization, immigration history (26%), and a strong culture of remembrance.
Culture of Hungary
Culture of Hungary (Hungarian culture, Magyar culture): the language, folk traditions, cuisine, festivals, and arts of Hungary and Hungarians abroad. Finno-Ugrian Magyar language, táncház dance houses, ten UNESCO intangible-heritage items, Sziget festival, tokaji aszú, and hungarikum register distinguish it.
Culture of India
Culture of India: millennia-old, highly diverse culture of 1.4 billion people; over 1,600 languages, 2,000 ethnic groups, Hindu majority (~80%), 45 UNESCO World Heritage sites, constitutional secularism under Hindu nationalist pressure.
Culture of Indonesia
Culture of Indonesia (Bhinneka Tunggal Ika): the diverse arts, languages, religions, and heritage of 1,300+ ethnic groups and 700+ languages, with 10 UNESCO World Heritage sites, 16 intangible heritage elements, and a dedicated Ministry of Culture since 2024.
Culture of Iran
Culture of Iran (فرهنگ ایران): the layered civilization of the Iranian plateau, blending pre-Islamic traditions like Nowruz with Islamic influence, marked by the Persian language and poetry, ethnic and linguistic diversity, taarof etiquette, and UNESCO-recognized heritage.
Culture of Ireland
Culture of Ireland: the island's food, drink, festivals and hospitality traditions. Rooted in Neolithic cattle farming and the potato, now defined by dairy and grass-fed beef exports, Blas na hÉireann awards, Michelin-starred restaurants and the diaspora-shaped St Patrick's Day.