Knoema.com - Culture http://pt.knoema.com 2017-11-13T05:36:25Z /favicon.png Knoema é o seu caminho pessoal do conhecimento World's Top Festivals of 2018 //pt.knoema.com/zgezvfd/world-s-top-festivals-of-2018 2017-11-13T05:36:25Z Alex Kulikov pt.knoema.com://pt.knoema.com/user/1847910
World's Top Festivals of 2018

Driven by geography, culture and so much more, countries around the world host an amazing diversity of festivals, some to celebrate, some to remember, and some, … just because! Everfest publishes FEST300, a list of the 300 best upcoming festivals. Here are some fun facts pulled from FEST300:Of the 170 festivals coming up 2018, Everfest rated 26 as 5 star, the highest rating, while the majority—111 festivals—received a 4.5, and only one festival—the Maha Shivaratri in Nepal—earned a 3.  Another five festivals were included in FEST300 but have a zero rating because site visitors have not yet provided assessments for those festivals.In 2018, the US will host 51 of the FEST300 festivals, more than any other country. The US is also the only country to have three host cities make the FEST300: Chicago, Miami, and New Orleans.A burst of festivals were launched in the early 1990s and remain on the FEST300 today, with more than 40 festivals dating to 1991.Of the 12 types of festivals in the ranking, music festivals make up a disproportionate share. Even the newest festival on the FEST300 is a music festival: the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Debuting in 2016, it is “the largest music festival in Florida, with a freewheeling lineup encompassing superstars and up-and-comers.”First celebrated in 1412, the oldest festival on the FEST300 is the Inti Raymi, “a nine-day winter solstice celebration worshiping an Incan god and involves colorful costumes, lavish banquets, festive music, and historical recreations.”

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Worldwide Box Office: Respect is Earned, Not Given //pt.knoema.com/jtknpgb/worldwide-box-office-respect-is-earned-not-given 2017-05-25T03:03:11Z Alex Kulikov pt.knoema.com://pt.knoema.com/user/1847910
Worldwide Box Office: Respect is Earned, Not Given

I understand. You found paradise in films, you had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. You didn't need a friend like me. But, now you come to me, and you say: 'Don Corleone, give me a good film.' But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call me Godfather. Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me what is the most ranked movie. - The Godfather   One way to discover great movies and brush up on your movie trivia is through browsing the Internet Movie Database - better known as IMDb - which is one of the most popular sources for film, TV, and celebrity-biography content. More than 250 million people visit the site each month. The IMDb database includes more than 185 million data points related to the more than 3 million film and television productions included in its database. Movie information IADb includes: box-office data, showtimes, and cast, credits, and other descriptive statistics. Full filmography is available for cast and crew.Thanks to registered users of IMDB, ratings based on a 10-star scale are available for the each movie and television show.IMDb also provides adjusted gross earnings estimated on movies based on 2017 ticket price ($8.84). So, if 'Gone with the Wind' (1939) box office earnings were less than $200 million, adjusted for ticket price inflation, today's earnings would be $1.8 billion. Movies today tend to better meet viewers' expectations than in decades past. While box office earnings may provide better insight into how desirable a movie was before viewing, an IMDb ranking is a useful indicator of the impression a movie makes on actual viewers, helping us to understand if movies live up to their hype.A comparison of gross worldwide box office earnings and IMDb ratings for the highest grossing films in each year from 1989 to 2017 consistently shows modern films out shining those released prior to 2010.The worst rated among the highest grossing movies of the 1990s (Mission: Impossible II) has an IMDb rating of 6.1; the highest grossing of the 2000s (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) rates 7.1 stars; and in the current decade, Frozen earns 7.5 stars.There is another plausible explanation for this correlation between box office earnings and IMDb ratings: maybe the user base and/or attitudes toward the movies being rated has shifted through time, resulting in more recent releases earning more stars. Dig into the data below to decide for yourself.   Note: IMDb ratings change daily data. Data below were collected on April 20, 2017.

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World Values: Family, Work, Friends, Leisure, Religion and Politics //pt.knoema.com/hxpxvpg/world-values-family-work-friends-leisure-religion-and-politics 2016-09-28T13:47:34Z Alex Kulikov pt.knoema.com://pt.knoema.com/user/1847910
World Values: Family, Work, Friends, Leisure, Religion and Politics

Researchers from the Vienna-based Institute for Comparative Survey Research surveyed 86,000 people from 60 countries worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2014 to gain insight into the relative importance of a select set of values. These values were: family, friends, leisure time, politics, religion, and work. Participants of the World Value Survey (WVS) were asked to define the importance of each value, with ranking options of very important, rather important, not very important and not at all important.The combined share of positive responses - very important and rather important - for a single country provides a useful measure to compare the relative importance of specific values among countries worldwide. These results are shown in the visualizations below. Test yourself Following are some of the interesting findings from the most recent survey responses:On average, values rank in the following order from most to least important: family, work, friends, leisure time, religion and politics.For all but five countries surveyed, family was the highest ranked value. Among countries where family was not ranked first, the Netherlands was the only country where respondents ranked friends as the highest priority, while Ghana was the only country where  respondents ranked work above all else. The three remaining countries - the Arabic countries of Algeria, Egypt, and Qatar - religion was ranked most important. In other Middle-Eastern Arabic and Islamic countries, like Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Palestine, and Yemen, religion was ranked second only to family.In sharp contrast to family, politics was nearly universally the least important value among respondents from the 60 countries. Bahrain respondents placed the highest relative importance on politics among all countries, ranking politics above work and leisure but below family, religion, and friends.In three-fourths of the countries surveyed, work ranked more important than leisure. This contradicts economic theory, according to which leisure is a "good" while work is a “bad”. Increased consumption of leisure should increase an individual's level of satisfaction while work should decrease levels of utility. Interstate differences in the importance of work, however, did emerge. Respondents from high-income developed countries - where this economic theory originates - valued leisure more than work. At the same time, respondants from relatively poor countries - like Ghana, where the GDP per capita is 40 times less than that of the US - considered work to be of higher importance than leisure.Respondents from 60 percent of the countries ranked friends as more important than work. But, in only 53 percent of countries did friends outrank religion.Analysis of the WVS survey data also shows that following an increase in standards of living countries tend to move from traditional to secular-rational values and from survival to self-expression values.

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The Most and Least Tolerant Countries //pt.knoema.com/irloetd/the-most-and-least-tolerant-countries 2016-08-10T13:58:30Z Alina Buzanakova pt.knoema.com://pt.knoema.com/user/1293450
The Most and Least Tolerant Countries

The World Values Survey (WVS) examines the changing values of societies and the impact of these changes on social and political life. The WVS is composed of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries that represent almost 90 percent of the world’s population. Initiated in 1981, the WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed. The survey repository includes interviews with almost 400,000 respondents, covering all of the world’s major cultural zones. Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks is one about tolerance for other races. World Values asked respondents in more than 80 countries to identify the kinds of people they would not want as neighbors. Some respondents, picking from a list, chose "people of a different race." The more frequently that people in a given country gave that response, the less racially tolerant the society is rated. Quick Facts:Anglo and Latin countries most tolerant. People in the survey were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor in the United Kingdom and its former colonies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US) and in Latin America.Wide variation across Europe. Immigration and national identity are pervasive, sensitive issues in much of Europe, where the racial make-up is changing.Racial tolerance low in diverse Asian countries. Nations such as the Philippines, where many racial groups often jockey for influence and have complicated histories with one another, showed more skepticism of diversity.Pakistan, remarkably tolerant, an outlier. Although Pakistan has a number of factors that coincide with racial intolerance – sectarian violence, its location in the least-tolerant region of the world, and low economic and human development indices – only 15 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race.

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A Global View: Language, Ethnicity and Religion //pt.knoema.com/dbegeq/a-global-view-language-ethnicity-and-religion 2016-07-04T12:24:46Z Alex Kulikov pt.knoema.com://pt.knoema.com/user/1847910
A Global View: Language, Ethnicity and Religion

It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. Ninety percent of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages. The world's five most widely spoken languages by the number of native speakers are: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, and Arabic (all dialects). English is the most widespread language in the world by the number of ethnic groups in different countries who use it as a mother tongue. In today's Viz, Knoema provides the ethnolinguistic data from the Joshua Project - a research initiative that collects information about people groups, languages, and religion from a variety of sources including the Ethnologue, SIL, WCD, IMB, regional research such as COMIBAM, MANI, Asia Harvest, Omid, Finishing The Task (FTT), Jesus Film, Global Recordings, Faith Comes by Hearing, Operation World, and a wide variety of mission agencies, field workers, census data, denomination reports, and surveys. Browse by Language | Browse by Country Please note, that Joshua Project compiles the work of numerous missions researchers to develop a list of all ethnic peoples that is as complete as possible. Many errors, duplicates, and overlaps exist and the data is continually being updated. For further information please visit the JoshuaProject website

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A Song of Ice and Fire in Figures //pt.knoema.com/otjivpe/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-in-figures 2016-05-17T10:27:12Z Alex Kulikov pt.knoema.com://pt.knoema.com/user/1847910
A Song of Ice and Fire in Figures

Millions of people worldwide are looking forward to the next episode of A Game of Thrones, a television series adaptation of the epic fantasy novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire, by American author George R. R. Martin. Fans are likewise eagerly awaiting the expected release of the sixth book in the series, The Winds of Winter, later this year. Since its first publication in 1996, A Song of Ice and Fire has gained extreme popularity while also accumulating a wealth of criticism. The series' numerous admirers along with researchers and writers have sought to puzzle out the numerous enigmas, mysteries and questions of the novels, a phenomenon which contributes to the unique connection some have developed to the series.  One such analytic fascination has been the inhabitants of the world of Ice and Fire and the dialogue among them. Numbering well over 1,000, their relationships have received intense scrutiny in terms of the total volume of words spoken, total words spoken by character, and the relative quality of the books in the series based on total lines spoken in each.In the 4,273 pages of the 5-volume series, the characters speak a total 749,406 words.The most talkative character in the series is Tyrion Lannister even though he was not included in the fourth book, A Feast for Crows. He has spoken 46,997 words total in the series, which is 17,000 words more than Jon Snow, the second most talkative character.The House of Lannister as a whole spoke more words than the House of Stark (including Jon): 125,837 words as compared to 86,282.Most often conversations occurred between Dany Targarien and Jorah Mormont who are the fourth and the tenth most talkative characters, respectively.Not all characters in the Song of Ice and Fire are as talkative as Dany and Jorah. More than half of all the characters (617) spoke less than 100 words in the series. Even Hodor, who due to his mental deficiency can pronounce only one word - his name - has spoken 234 words.If you assess the quality of the books by the number of lines spoken by the characters in each, then books four and five rate slighlty worse than the first three. However, the number of speaking characters themselves (440) in book 5, A Dance with Dragons, exceeds the other books in the series and is more than twice the numer of speaking charactres in book 1, A Game of Thrones.  

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