"Cultural characteristics of a region include all of the following except climate, which is a physical characteristic."
Architecture style, clothing style, and common foods are cultural characteristics of a region developed throughout that community's history. Their source is the patterns of taste, behavior, norms, idealisms, and beliefs of a society, and form its identity.
The different collection of cultural symbols allow us to separate and identify many unique societies; The role of History and it's branches such as sociology and anthropology is to study how and why the culture was constructed as it is by the people.
