Friday, December 28, 2012

MALAYSIA CULTURE

MALAYSIA IS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.  IT DRAWS ON THE VARIED CULTURES OF THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE OF MALAYSIA.  THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES WERE FOLLOWED BY THE MALASIANS WHO MOVED THERE FROM MAINLAND ASIA IN ANCIENT TIMES.  CHINESE AND INDIAN  CULTURAL INFLUENCES MADE THEIR MARK WHEN TRADE BEGAN WITH THOSE COUNTRIES AND INCREASED  WITH IMMIGRATION TO MALAYSIA.  OTHER CENTURIES ARE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY MALAYSIA - PERSIAN, ARABIC, AND BRITISH.

ARTIST AND MUSIC HAVE LONG TRADITION IN MALASIA DATING TO MALAY SULTANATES.  THEY HAD SHADOW PUPPETS SHOWS THAT DATE BACK TO MALAY SULTANATES.  TRADITIONAL ART WAS CENTERED AROUND FIELDS SUCH AS CARVING, SILVERSMITHING, WEAVING.  THEY MADE GOURD SHAPED JARS FOR HOLDING WATER.  THEY PERFORMED ARTS AND SHOWS,  THE INFLUENCES HAVE A VARITY OF  OF ORIGINS AND IS BASED ON INDIAN THAT CHANGED EVEN AS MALAYS CONVERTED TO ISLAM.  

MALAYSIAN MUSIC HAS  A VARIETY OF ORIGINS.  EACH MAJOR RELIGION  HAS MAJOR  OFFICIAL HOLY DAYS AS OFFICIAL HOLIDAYS.  THEIR MOST HONORED HOLIDAY IS HARI MERDEKA - THE MOST INDEPENDENCE OF  MALAYSIA.  MALAYSIA CONSISTS OF 2 DISTINCT DISTRICTS OR REGIONS.  MALAYSIA WAS FARMED WHEN THE FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA REMAINED WITHIN BORNEO .  THE SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA HAD IS LIKE A MINIATURE ASIA.  THEY SPEAK MALAYSIAN IN IN CONSITUTION.  THE CHINESE HAVE SETTLED HERE FOR CENTURIES AND ADOPTED MALAYSIAN FOR CENTURIES.  TRADITIONS SUCH AS BUDDIST AND TAOIST RELIGIONS ARE COMMON.  THE CHINESE HAVE INTEGRATED WITH MALAY CULTURE IN A NUMBER OF AREAS.

SILAT IS A POPULAR MARTIAL ARTS THAT REMAINS AND INCREASES A PERSON'S SPIRITUAL STRENGTH.  THERE TRADITIONAL HOUSES ARE BUILT  WITHOUT NAILS AND RAISED ON STILTS WITH HIGH ROOFS.  THEY USED BAMBOO AND OTHER BRUSH FOR HOUSING.  MALACCA WAS A TRADITIONAL TRADE CENTER OF A LARGE WOODEN STRUCTURE.

TRADITIONALLY MALAY MUSIC PERFORMING ARTS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN ORI
GINATED IN THE REGION.  THEY HAVE AT LEAST 14 TYPES OF TRADITIONAL DRUMS.  DRUMS.  THEY HAVE AN ORCHESTRA THAT DIVIDED 2 FORMS OF GONGS AND STRING INSTRUMENTS AND WIND INSTRUMENTS.  THESE INSTRUMENTS HAVE BEEN USED FOR CEREMONIES AND CHINESE WEDDINGS.  MALAYSIAN POETRY IS HIGHLY DEVELOPED AND USES MANY FORMS AND IS HIGHLY DEVELOPED AND USES MANY FORMS.  IT IS A TRADITIONAL WAY OF STORYTELLING.  THEIR EARLIEST WRITING IS IN 1303.  IT WAS ORIGINALLY RECORDED IN THE 15TH CENTURY FROM THER LITERARY WORK.  THEY HAVE MANY FOLKTALES.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

PARENTAL GUIDANCE

THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT SOME GRANDPARENTS WHO COMMIT TO BABYSIT THEIR DAUGHTER'S THREE CHILDREN FOR A WEEK.  IT WAS QUITE THE COMEDY.  THE GRANDPARENT WHO COMMITS TO BABYSITS THEIR DAUGHTER'S 3 CHILDREN FOR A WEEK.  IT WAS QUITE THE COMEDY.  THE GRANDPARENT HAS BEEN FIRED FROM HIS BASEBALL COMMENTATOR JOB.  THEIR DAUGHTER  HAS NOT LET GO OF KIDS FOR A WHOLE FOR A WHOLE WEEK AND SHE IS UPTIGHT ABOUT .

IT IS A COMEDY ABOUT HOW GRANDPARENTS HAVE RAISED THEIR KIDS AND INFLECTED SELF ESTEEM ON THE YOUNGER KIDS AND DEVELOPED SOME RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR GRANDPRENTS.  THE GRANDPA IS A WISE CRACKER WHO LIKES  TRADITIONAL VALUES.  THE GRANDMA EMBRACES CHANGE IN ORDINARY STYLE. THEY TRY TO HAVE KIDS INTERACT WITH THEM IN EACH OTHER  THOUGH THE GRAND PARENTS GOT TO HAVE A FUN TIME WITH WITH THEIR KID  THEY HAVE CONFLICTS IN WHAT TO FEED THEM.   THE KIDS ACT LIKE LIKE THEY HAVE OCD TENDENCIES.  THE KID HAS IMAGINATORY KANGAROO THAT HAS HE THINK GETS KILLED IN BY AN AUTOMOBILE.  THEY BURY HIM IN A FANCY BOX IN THEIR BACKYARD AND THIS CHILD REACHES ANOTHER STYAGE OF HIS CHILDHOOD.  I ENJOYED THE MOVIE AS IT HAD A LOT OF ACTION IN THEW FACT THAT WE ALL LAUGHED AT THE MASSES THE GRANDPARENTS GOT THE MASSES INTO....

Friday, December 21, 2012

GRAND CANYON TRIP

MY HUSBAND AND I HAD OUR ANNIVERSARY AT THE GRAND CANYON WHEN IT BEGAN TO SNOW IN MID DECEMBER. WE REALIZED THAT THE NATIONAL PARKS DID NOT PLOW THERE ROADS.  SO MY MOM AND BROTHER CAME ALONG AND WE GOT STUCK IN THE PARK FOR SEVERAL DAYS.  I WAS WORKING FOR SEVERAL DAYS  AND MY HUSBAND WAS STUDYING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY.  THE CANYON IS BEAUTIFUL WITH THE SNOW.  WE WALKED AROUND THE RIM AS WELL AS WENT TO SEVERAL TO SEVERAL MUSEUMS AND MET SOMEONE I KNEW AT BLM.  IT'S A SMALL WORLD.  FINALLY WE SAW SOME DEER PEERING AT US.  ONCE WE WERE ON OUR WAY BACK TO PHOENIX  WE STOPPED AT ARCOSANTI.  IT WAS ACCESSABLE BY A DIRT ROAD THERE AND WE GOT STUCK IN THE CLAY MUD.  BUT WE FINALLY MADE IT THROUGH .  ARCOSANTI IS A COMMUNE BUILT IN THE 1960'S OR 70'S THAT WAS DESIGNED TO BE SELF SUFFIICENT.

MY HUSBAND AND I HAD SOME FRIENDS FROM ASU HIKED DOWN THE CANYON WITH BACKPACKS.  WE WENT TO HAVASUPAI FALLS WHEN IT WAS STILL FAIRLY REMOTE AND UNPOPULATED.  WE JUMPED INTO THE NATURAL LAKE THERE. IT WAS VERY COLD AND CAMPED AT THIS BEAUTIFUL SPOT FOR SEVERAL DAYS.  THE FALLS ARE TOURQUOISE AND THE HAVASUPI NATIVES  ARE VERY FRIENDLY.  WE HAD A GOOD TIME THERE AND WONDERED ABOUT HOW MUCH FURTHER IT WOULD  TAKE TO HIKE TO THE COLORADO RIVER. 

ARIZONA TIMES

MY HUSBAND AND I HAD A GREAT TIME EXPLORING THE  ARIZONA DESERT.  ONE OF OUR FAVORITE SPOTS WAS IN THE SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS.    NEAR PHOENIX  BY  THE SUPERSITION MOUNTAINS.  IT WAS NEW TERRITORY AND THE LAKES AND THE LAKES ARE IN THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST .  AT WILDERNESS AND WE CAMPED OUT AT SEVERAL OF THESE LAKES WHEN WE HAD TIME DURING GRADUATE  SCHOOL.  IT IS A GREAT PLACE TO GO SWIMMING OR BOATING.  THERE WERE SO MANY BEAUTIFUL CACTI AND MANY WERE IN BLOOM DURING DIFFERENT.  WE PHOTOGRAPHED MANY PETROGLPHS  OF THE HOHOKAM AND SALADO NATIONS.  LATER SPANISH EXPLORERS AND MEXICAN GOLD MINERS MIGRATED TO THIS AREA FOLLOWED BY FARMERS AND CATTLEMENT.  THE MINERS BUILT A 20 STAMP MILL AND FOUND SOME GOLD.  THEY HAVE ABOUT 3 LAKES ALONG THE TONTO CREEK AND OTHER CREEKS.                 

Thursday, December 20, 2012

PHILLIPINO CULTURE

PHILLIPINO HAS A COMPLEX HISTORY AND IS SOUTH OF CHINA SEA.

THE PHILLIPINES WERE FIRST BY MELANESIANS THEY HAVE A TRADITION WAY OF LIFE. THEY HAVE AN AUSTRONIAN CULTURE  AROUND HERE ENGAGED IN IN THE ETHNICITY AS A RESULT  OF THOSE  CULTURES.

WHEN THE SPANISH COLONIZED THE ISLANDS AFTER MORE THAN THREE CENTURIES THE PHILIPINES BEING GOVERNED FROM BOTH MEXICO AND SPAIN, RECEIVED A LITTLE HISPANIC INFLUENCE.  THIS IS SEEN THEIR DANCES AND RELIGION.

AFTER BEING COLONIZED BY SPAIN THE PHILLIPINES BECAME A U.S. TERRITORITY FOR 40 YEARS. THEY HAVE INFLUENCE FROM THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

THEY ARE MOSTLY ROMAIN CATHOLIC NATIONS IN ASIA PACIFIC IN ASIA PACIFIC.  SOME ARE ABOUT ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGION . BY THE  16TH CENTURY THE SPANIARDS AND THE INTRODUCTION  OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS INDIGENOUS.  AUSTONESIAN FOLKS WERE A MIXTURE OF SAMANISTIC ANIMISTIC ISLAM AND BUDDISM.  THE ARTS OF THE FOLKS COINSIST OF MODERN FEATRURES OF EUROPE FOLK ART AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ART WATER COLOR, JEWELRY, FURNITURE, PRODUCTS.  THEY MADE PAINTINGS ON RED CLAY POTTERY THAT DATES TO 6000 B.C.  POTTERY MAKING HAS BEEN PRACTICED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.  THEY HEAVILYTATTOO THEIR BODY USING FLORA AND FAUNA DESIGNS OF COLORED PIGMENTS.

THEIR CHURCHES WERE ELABORATELY PAINTED AS WELL.  THEY HAD FRESCOS SCULPTURES AND BIBLICAL ICONS.  THE EARLY ART WOVEN FABRICS WITH A BLANKET DESIGN.  THEY MAKE JEWELRY FROM PEARLS, PLANTS AND METALS.  THEY BY FABRIC FROM A PLANT RELATED TO BANANAS!  IT IS WOVEN INTO CLOTHE WITH GEOMETRIC PATTERNS DEPICTING HUMAN ANIMALS AND PLANTS.

ISLAMIC ART IS A WOOD CARVING AND METAL .  GEOMETRIC TAPESTRIES ARE DONE BY WOMEN.  THEIR MUSIC FEATURES A MIXTURE OF ASIAN SOUNDS THAT FLOURISHED IN EUROPE AND AMERICAN CLONIASM IN THE 16TH AND 20TH CENTURY.  SPANISH SETTLERS AND PHILLIPINO PLAYED A VARIETY OF INSTRUMENTS.  THEY HAD FOLK SONGS  AND PERFORMED DANCES. BY 1900  THEY MADE MOVIES EXPRESSING THEIR ARTWORK.

THEIR PRIMITIVE HOMES WERE OF BAMBOO AND COCONUT.  SPANIARDS WERE INTRODUCED STONES AS HAVING AND BUILDING.  SPANIARDS INTRODUCED STONES AS HOUSING AND BUILDING EUROPEAN CHURCHES.

THE PHILIPINES EAT A VARIETY OF WESTERN ASIAN FOODS THEY EAT 6 MEALS A DAY AND EAT RICE AS A STAPLE.  THEY EAT WITH THEIR HANDS.  THEY ROAST A WHOLE PIG. THEY HAVE SPANISH DISHES AS WELL. SOME DISHES ARE STRANGE - BOILED WITH A FERTIL DUCK INSIDE.  AS WELL AS A PORK BLOOD SOUP.

THE AUSTONESIANS HAVE RETURNED THEIR INDIGINEOUS CUSTOMS WITH 100 HIGHLAND FOLKS.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

CULTURE OF MALI IN AFRICA

MALI DERIVES FROM THE SHARED EXPERIENCES AS A COLONIAL AND AND POST COLONIAL COUNTRY THE NUMEROUS MALI NATION WAS FIRST UNITED IN MEDIVAL TIMES.  THE TULA PEOPLE ARE FORMALLY PEOPLE.  THEY LIVE IN THE NOMADIC DESERT.

THEY HAVE DOZENS OF ETHNICITIES.  MANY PEOPLE SHARE A CASTE SYSTEM  IN WHICH CERTAIN SKILLS ARE PASSED DOWN THROUGH FAMILIES.

MANY PEOPLE SHARE A CASTE SYSTEM OF NETWORKING, FISHING, HISTORY THROUGH FAMILIES.  THESE RITUALS ARE SPREAD FAR BEYOND THE MANDE COMMUNITIES.

THE MALINKE PEOPLE FORM A MANDE CORE OF HEAVILY POPULATED REGIONS. THE TULIANI ARE NOMADIC BUT NOW AS LIKELY VILLAGE .  A NATION OF AS THEY ARE OVER WEST AFRICA.  THEY BELIEVE IN ISLAM A RELIGION THAT ORDERS THE LIVES OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF MALIANS.  THEY HAVE DEPENDENCE BETWEEN CERTAIN COMMUNITIES.   TODAY TEY CREATE FORMAL REATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CERTAIN CULTURES.  SOME OF THE RELATIONSHIP ARE JOKING .  THE DOGON HAVE MAINTAINED A UNIQUE CULTURE  WITH ART AND LIFESTYLE WITH A SOURCE OF PRIDE FOR ALL MALIANS.  THE BERBER TAUREG AND MAIRES OF ARIB ARE NOMADICAND ONLY ARE 10% OF THE MODERN MALI.

THE MUSIC IS BLUES AND IS KNOWN AS KORA VIRTUO AND SOME POPULATED ARTISTS.  MALI IS ONE OF AFRICA'S INTELLECTUAL CENTERS.  ONE OF HISTORIAN HAS RECORDED THE ORAL TRADITIONS OF FULA TEACHERS.

THEY HAVE FREQUENT FESTIVALS AND THEY WEAR COLORFUL ROBES AND THEY HAVE DANCES AND PRAYERS . THEN EAT RICE AND MILLET WITH SAUCES WITH SPINICH OR BAOBOBS GRILLED MEAT OF VARIOUS SORTS.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

LIBYA CULTURE

THE LIBYA ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE COUNTRY IN NORTH AFRICA.  THEIR CUISINES IN NORTH AFRICA.  THEIR CUSINES IS MUCH LIKE THE TRADITIONS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.  THEY HAVE A THICK SPICY SOUP WITH TOMATOES, MEAT,  CHILI PEPPER, AND SAFRON.  BAZEEN IS MADE OF A MIXTURE OF BARLEY FLOUR.  IT IS BOILED AND HAS A SAUCE OF ONIONS AND LAMB MEAT WITH PAPRIKA.  THEY ADD POTATOES  AND EGG .  THEY ALSO FRY EGGS AND MINCED MEAT WITH EGG.  MOST FOLKS EAT AT HOME WHEN THEY ENJOY FAMILY AT BEACHSIDE PICNICS.  ALCOHOL IS BANNED IN LIBYA!  MOST PEOPLE ARE WATCHING T.V. AT NIGHT.

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ALGERIA CULTURE IN AFRICA

THE CAVE PAINTINGS ARE FOUND AROUND NORTHERN TAMARASSET AND DEPICT EVERYDAY LIFE IN PREHISTORIC ALGER 8000 TO 4000 YEARS AGO..  THEY WERE HUNTERS AND IN A SAVANNAH REGION.  THE PICTOGRAPHS SHOW BUFFALO, ELEPHANTS, RHINOCERO AND HIPPOS, ANIMALS THAT ARE NOT THERE TODAY.  THEY PROVIDE A COMPLETE RECORD OF PREHISTORY.

ACCORDING TO SOME ALGERIANS THIS WAS THE SITE OF THE HIGHEST STATE OF THE PERIOD OF MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC. TOOL TECHNIQUES ARE DATED TO 30,000 B.C. AND HAVE HIGH STANDARDSOF WORKMANSHIP.  THE NEOLITHIC ANIMALS AND AGRICULTURE DEVELOPED.  IT WAS DEPICTED ON CAVE PAINTINGS.

IN NORTH AFRICA THE NATIVE POPULATION  WAS CALLED BERBER,  THEY WERE TYPICALLY NOMADS BY  ROMANS, GREEKS, BYZANTINE, AND ARAB MUSLIMS.  HOWEVER, THEY PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE ALGERIA HISTORY.

BY 600 B.C. THE ALGERIANS HAD SMALL SETTLEMENTS AT NORTH AFRICA COAST.  THEIR POPULATION INCREASED DURING THE BERBER CIVILIZATION.  THEY HAD TRADE, AGRICULTURE, AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION  IN SEVERAL STATES.  THEY HAD A WAR IN 238 B.C.  CARTHAGE WAS DESTROYED BY 116 B.C.

IN MID 7TH CENTURY A LARGE NUMBER OF LOCALS CONVERTED TO THE NEW FAITH.  AFTER THE FALL THE  UMAYAD AROLE DYNASTY, BERBER DYNASTIES EMERGED;

ALGERIA WAS HOME TO MANY CULTURES.  ALGERIA IS A SEMI PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLIC CONSISTING OF 48 PROVINCES AND 1541 COMMUNES.  THEY HAVE 37 MILLION PEOPLE ITS ECONOMY IS OIL BASED  SUFFERING FROM DISEASE.  ALGERIA IS THE 10TH LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

THE COUNTRY NAME IS DERIVED FROM AN ARABIC BERBER RELATED  TO ZIRID DYNASTRY.

U.S. SHIPS PAID THE TRIBUTE AND DEMAND BY THE RULERS OF ALGIERS, TUNIS, TRIPOLIAND MORROCO BY PREVENTING ATTACKS ON THEIR SHIPS BY MEDITERRANEAN FOLKS  NOT COVERED BY GREAT BRITAIN.  DESPITE THE US SIGNED TREATY OF $10 MILLION WITH ALGERIAN FOLKS THERE WAS 12 YEARS OF ATTACK FREE SHIPPING .  IN 1830 THE FRENCH CAPTURED ALGIERS AND THEIR POPULATION DECLINED ABOUT 1/3 FROM 1830 TO 1872.

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BALI CULTURE

BALI IS A PRIME TOURIST DESTINATION  IN INDONESIA.  THEY HAVE A UNIQUE HINDU ANIIST RELIGION.  THIS ISLAND IS 2000 SQUARE SQUARE MILE AN AREA SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN DELAWARE.  IT HAS A CHAIN OF VOLCANOES AND VALLEYS.  THEY SPEAK AUSTRONESIAN WITH A RELATIVE OF SASAK,  THEY HAVE A TRADITION OF JAVENESE  ALPHABET,

THE BRAHMANA PRIESTS SPEAK ONLY A HIGH LANGUAGE.  THE CULTURE HAS A SYSTEM OF POLITENESS.  ONE COMMON WAY OF REFERING TO ADULTS IS IN RELATION TO A CHILD.  THEY HAVE A CUSTOM OF ASSIGNING NAMES TO BIRTH ORDER .

LEYAK ARE WITCHES WHO ARE ORDINARY PEOPLE BY DAY BUT WHO CAN CAUSE DISEASE OR CROP FAILURE OR FOOD POISON.

BALANESE  ARE NOT MUSLIM BUT HINDU.  THEIR HINDUISM COMBINES INDIAN MODEL  WITH NATIVE RELIGION.  THEY MAINTAIN A BAL;ANCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.  THEY MAKE OFFERINGS TO A LOT OF GOODS AND DEMONS.  THEY HAVE MANY SUPERNATURAL BEINGS,  THEY HAVE MANY RITES OF PASSAGE RITUALS.  SOME ARE FOR PURIFICATION.  THEY HAVE MANY MARRIAGE CEREMONIES.  THEIR SOCIETY IS DIVIDED UP INTO 4 CASTES.  ONE TAKES ADVICE OR CRITICISM BY SAYING NGGIH OR SILENCE.

ONLY TEENS ARE ALLOWED TO CHAT AT FOOD STALLS IN PUBLIC.  THE BALI FAMILY LIVES IN A WALLED COMPOUND BY A GROUP OF BROTHERS AND THEIR FAMILY HEIRLOOMS.

MANY MARRY BETWEEN CASTES .  MENSTRUATING WOMEN DO NOT ENTER TEMPLES .  AT LEAST ONE SON MUST STAY BEHIND TO TAKE CARE OFOLDER PARENTS.  

WOMEN BUY AND SELL IN THE MARKETS.  MEN WORK IN THE COMMUNITY TO CATCH MEAT, WATCH COCKFIGHTS. DRINK TOGETHER AND PLAY IN THE ORCHESTRA.    WOMEN JOIN THE CASTE SYSTEM OF THEIR HUSBANDS.  

BALINESE WEAR WESTERN STLYE CLOTHING, SHORTS AND TANK TOPS.  THEIR TRADITIONAL CLOTHING INCLUDES A SARUNG WOMEN WEAR A TANBAREN SARONG OF BATIK.  WOMEN WEAR THEIR HAIR SHORT FOR TRADITIONAL HAIRSTLES.  THEY WEAR WIGS TO GO WITH THEIR DRESSES.  

THEY EAT THEIR MEALS QUICKLY AND AT NO FIXED TIMES AND THEY SNACK AT NO FIXED TIMES VERY FREQUENTLY..  THEY EAT RICE, SIDE DISHES OF VEGETABLES  WITH PIECES OF CHICKEN.  THEY ALSO EAT TOFU, BEAN CURD OR TEMPEH AND SEASONED CHILI SAUCE MADE FRESH DAILY.

MANY DISHES REQUIRE A BASE OF NELP AND A SPICE MIXTURE OF SEA SALT, PEPPER, CHILI, GARLIC, SHRIMP, PASTE, GINGER AND OTHER INGREDIENTS.

FOR CEREMONIES, MEN EAT EBAT CHOPPED PIG, OR TURTLE MEAT WITH SPICES SUCH AS COCONUT AND UNRIPE MANGO.  THEY HAVE SPECIALTIES. OF BABI GULDING OR STUFFED PIG OVER A FIRE.   THEY HAVE STUFFED DUCK WRAPPED IN A BANANA LEAF AND COOKED IN ASHES.

THE FORMAL ARTS OF BALINESE ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES.  THEY HAVE A MUSICAL ENSEMBLE OF GAMELAN ORCHESTRA FOR WHICH INDONESIA IS FAMOUS .  DRUMS, FLUTES, BRONZE INSTRUMENTS.  AN ARRAY OF DANCES ARE PERFORMED.  THEY HAVE A MYTHICAL LION IN ONE.  SEVERAL TYPES OF DRAMA .  BALINESE LITERATRE IS PRESERVED IN BOOKS.  THEY HAVE EPICS OF GODS AND HEROS AND TALES OF THE OLD BALINESE KINGDOMS.

SOME OF 90% EARN A LIVING FROM AGRICULTURE.  THEY HAVE WET RICE CULTIVATION . MANY HAVE SMALL COTTAGE BUSINESSES.  SINCE 1970'S THE GARMENT INDUSTRY HAS GROWN DRAMATICALLY.  TOURISM PROVIDES WORK IN HOTELS, TRAVEL AND BUSINESS GUIDES, A TAXI SERVICE AND CRAFT SHOPS.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

CUBA CULTURE

CUBA CULTURE IS WHERE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS LANDED ONTHE ISLAND IN 1492  AND NAMED IT JUANA.  THE AREA IS 48,800 SQUARE MILES. WITH 1/3 OF THE ISLAND AS MOUNTAINOUS.  ABOUT 1/3 OF THE ISLANDS ARE MOUNTAINOUS.  ABOUT 1/3 OF THE ISLANDS THE ISLANDS ARE MOUNTAINOUS.  BETWEEN THESE MOUNTAIN SYSTEYMS.IS A LARGE PLAIN IN THE WESTERN PROVINCE.  THE BRITISH ASSIGNED THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE ISLAND TO MILITARY OPERATIONS.

CUBA HAS MOSTLY EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS., ANGLOS, AND CHINESE .  MOST ALL SPEAK SPANISH .  AS MOST COUNTRIES THEY HAVE HAD STRUGGLES.  AARAWAK AND COLUMBIAN FOLKS. WHEN SPAIN CAME HERE THEY ENSLAVED SOME INDIGENOUS FOLKS TO HELP WITH PROJECTS. THE INDIGENOUS FOLKS WERE LARGELY ABANDONED. THE FOLKS WERE BORN IN SPAIN. MANY LEFT AND OTHERS CAME FROM EUROPE AND AFRICA.

THE BRITISH OCCUPIED HAVANA IN 1952 AND AFRICAN SLAVES WERE ALMOST MOST OF THE POPULATION. BY 1868 THE EASTERN PLANTERS DECLARED WAR ON SPAIN. AND CALLED FOR COMPLETE FREEDOM AND THEY ENDED SLAVERYFTER THEIR REVOLUTION IN 1957, THEY BECAME TRUELY INDEPENDENT.  THEIR PRECOLUMBIAN  CULTURE HAD 112,000 ARAWAK FOLKS.   WHEN SPAIN CAME HERE THEY ENSLAVED SOME INDIGENOUS FOLKS TO HELP WITH THEIR DTHEIR PROJECTS.  THE INDIGENOUS FOLKS WERE ABANDONED.  FOLKS FROM SPAIN AND AFRICA WERE LEFT.

THE BRITISH OCCUPIED SAVANNAH IN 1952  AND AFRICAN SLAVES WERE MOST OF THE POPULATION.  BY 1868 THE EASTERN DECLARED WAR ON SPAIN CALLED FOR COMPLETE FREEDOM AND THEY ENDED SLAVERY.  BY 1906 CUBANS PROTESTED AGAINST THE THE US INTERVENTION.     THERE HAVE BEEN MANY COUNTRIES WHO WANTED TO TAKE OVER CUBA.  CUBANS NOW REJECT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.  SOME WEALTHY CUBANS FLED TO MIAMI.  CUBANS ARE NOW ACCUSTOMED TO BEING IN PRIVATE SPACE.  THEY ARE IN COSE CONTACT.  THIS IS GOOD SINCE HOUSING IS NOT ABUNDANT FOR CUBANS.  THEIR NORMAL DIET IN CUBA IS RICE, BEANS,  WITHPLANTAINS, TUBERS AND VEGETABLES.  THEY ALSO EAT PORK AND CHICKEN.  HISTORICALLY ABOUTR 1/2 OF THEIR INTAKE HAS BEEN IMPORTED  SINCE THEY HAVE HAD LITTLE TRADING NETWORK.  THEY  TYPICALLY EAT SWEETS.

BY 1959 FIDEL CASTRO ESTABLISHED A COMMUNIST PARTY THAT HAS EXISTED THERE EVER SINCE.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

SPIRIT CAFE

YESTERDAY I VISITED AN OLD CHURCH WHERE I HAD ORIGINALLY ATTENDED.  I ALSO WAS HERE FOR A MOM'S CLUB LONG AGO.   MY GIRLFRIEND HAD INVITED ME TO THEIR FREE MEAL BEFORE A SERVICE.  THEY HAD A NEW MINISTER AND MY GIRLFRIEND PLAYED THE PIANO.  THEIR WERE SOME FOLKS WHO WHO REMEMBERED ME FROM THE CHOIR  I WAS IN.  IT WAS A NICE SERVICE.  THE MINISTER TALKED ABOUT MIRACLE'S THIS SEASON.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

AUSTRALIAN CULTURE - OLD TRADITIONS MIXED WITH A MULTIETHNIC GROUP

AUSTRAILIA WAS FORMALLY ADOPTED AND POPULACE  ADOPTEDAND POPULARIZED 1817 BY BRITISH GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES

AS A BRITISH COLONY IT HAS DEVELOPED A COMPLEX NATIONAL CULTURE AND TERRITORY HAS NOT DEVELOPED INTO MAJOR SUBCULTURAL DIVERSITY.
A MORE PLURAL POLICY OF MULTI-CULTURALISM CAME TO PRONOUNCE OFFICIALLY THE  CELEBRATION OF A NATION

AUSTRALIA IS  A LARGE ISLAND IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BETWEEN ANTARICA AND ASIA.  THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION IS HIGHLY EVIDENT IN THE CULTURES  OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA.  IT HAS NOT BEEN AS STRONG A FACTOR IN EMIGRANT CULTURES. 

CANBERRA IS THE CAPITOL OF AUSTRALIA AND WAS BUILT IN 1909.  THEY PRIMARILY SPEAK ENGLISH BUT VARIOUS ABORIGINAL AND  OTHER IMMIGRANTS SPEAK OTHER LANGUAGES.  THERE WERE ABOUT 250 ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES STILL SPOKEN BY CHILDREN.   CREOLE DIALECTS MIX ABORIGINAL LANDFILL  WITH ENGLISH.  THERE ARE 12 COMMUNITY LANGUAGES  SPOKEN BY 6000 SPEAKERS.   THIS COURTYARD COURTYARD HAS ITALIAN, GREEK, CHINESE,  SERBO -CROATIAN, ARIBA, GERMAN, VIETNAMESE, SPAIN, AND FILIPINO AND OTHERS.

THEIR FLAG IS A SOUTHERN CROSS WITH THEIR NATIONAL ANIMAL THE KANGAROO IN A GOLDEN WATTLE TREE.  AUSTRALIA'S CHARACTER WAS PREDOMINANTLY  IMMIGRATION  AND RACE RELATIONS.  THE BUSH MYTHOLOGY HAS CONTINUED TO MIXCONTINUED TO INFLUENCE CONCEPTION OF THE RURAL PEOPLE.  BUT MOST MOST OF THE POPULATION IS URBAN.

AFTER BRITISH CAME HERE THE ABORIGINALS EXPERIENCED  DISEASE AND RACISM. THE ASSIMILATION OF PEOPLE HAD IMPACT ON CHILDREN OF MIXED DESCENT AND WERE BROUGHT TO AWHITE CEREMONY.  IRISH CATHOLICS CAME IN DURING MID 1900'S.  SINCE THEN AUSTRALIA HAS BECOME AN ANGLO FRAGMENTED SOCIETY.  THE AUSTRALIANS FEEL HEARTY AND SELF RELIANT.  THEY CONQUERED A BRUTAL LANDSCAPE.  AUSSIES ARE MOSTLY CHRISTIAN, EVEN THE ABORIGINES.

THE ASSIES CELEBRATE ANZAC DAY IN APRIL TO HONOR THOSE WHO DIED IN WAR.  THEY CELEBRATE THEIR NEW COLONY IN JANUARY WHEN THE NEW COLONY CAME TO BE BY THE ENGLISH.

BY AGE 18 A CHILD BECOMES AN ADULT.  THIS COUNTRY HAS HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF HOME OWNERSHIP.  AUSTRALIANS EAT SEAFOOD ABUNDANTLY.  BEEF, LAMB, AND FOOD FROM ALL CULTURES.  THEY EVEN HAVE GREEK  AND ITALIAN FOOD.      

AUSTRALIANS ARE FAMOUS FOR MEAT PIES.   THEY EAT FRUIT FOR DESERT WITH CREAM. AUSTRALIA HAS AN IMPORTANT FILM INDUSTRY AND IS THE SETTING FOR MANY FILMS.

MOST ABORIGINAL PEOPLE SPEAK ENGLISH AS THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE AND SOME SPEAK KREOLE.   THEY HAVE A LONG AND COMPLEX MYTHOLOGY PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATIONS AGO.  IT IS KNOWN AS DREAM TIME THIS REFERS TO A MYSTICAL TIME DURING WHICH THE ABORIGINES ESTEEM THEIR WORLD.  THEY DOMINATE THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE PEOPLE. ONE OF MANY TALES IS ABOUT HOW THE SUN WAS MADE.  ABORIGINAL RELIGION IS CENTERED AROUND DREAMTIME.  THEY HAVE CERTAIN ANIMALS.  THEY HOLD RITUALS TO PLEASEAND INCREASE CERTAIN ANIMALS.

THEIR MARRIAGES WERE COMPLEX SOME WERE ARRANGED.  THE TIWI  SOMETIMES HAD PREARRANGED MARRIAGES.  THEY BELIEVED THE WOMEN GOT PREGNANT BY SPIRITS.  BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ORIGINALLY WORE NO CLOTHING.  TODAY OF COURSE THEY DRESS LIKE WE DO.  IN PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC TIMES THE ABORIGINEES WERE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS WHO DID LITTLE FOOD PREP.

THEY DID NOT VALUE MATERIAL OBJECTS NOR DID THEY DEVELOP MANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.  THE MEN USED A BULLROARER TO SCARE WOMEN AT MALE CEREMONIES.  THEIR  DANCES IMMITATE ANIMALS.  THEY HAVE DIFFICULTY PURSUING THEIR TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLE.

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Monday, December 3, 2012

SCHOLLENBERGER PARK

YESTERDAY I WENT TO SCHOLLENBERGER PARK IN PETALUMA.  THERE WERE QUITE A FEW PEOPLEWALKING THEIR DOGS.   IT TOOK ME ABOUT 1/2 HOUR TO FIND THIS SMALL WETLAND PARK.  IT HAD A SMALL OUTHOUSE.  THEY HAVE A GRAVEL AND PAVED PATH.  IT IS ABOUT 2.5 MILES AROUND THE PARK.  I LEARNED ABOUT SOME NEW BIRDS -KEETS, SWANS, EGRETS, PIGEONS, AND VARIOUS BIRDS.  THERE WERE SOME NATIVE PLANTS SUCH AS SORREL,  COYOTE BUSHES, SOME CATTAILS, AND SMALL LIVE OAK ACORNS, AND CURLY DOCK.

THERE WAS QUITE A WIND DURING THIS DAY.  THERE WER SOME PEOLE FISHING BUT THE WATER LOOKED VERY MUDDY.

IT IS A GOOD PARK TO STROLL AROUND TO FIND VARIOUS BIRDS.