HONDURAS CULTURE

EXPRESSION IN HONDURAS OWES ITS ORIGINS PRIMARILY TO BEING PART OF LATIN AMERICA AND TO THE MULTI ETHNIC VALUE OF THE COUNTRY. THERE ARE 90% MESTIZOS AND 10% NATIVE AMERICANS 1 % ANGLOS, 2% BLACK'S.  THESE POPULATIONS INFLUENCE ALL THEIR CUSTOMS AND RITUALS.  THEY PRACTICE HOLY WEEK,  THEY HAVE SPECIAL CULTURAL EVENTS THAT HAVE SPECIAL KINDS OF DANCES AND MUSIC.  THEY CALL PUNTA.  THEY HAVE CARNIVALS AND MANY EXHIBITS EXHIBITIONS,  FERIA JUNAM OF SAN PEDRO IS WITH MUSIC CONCERTS DURING A WEEK.  THEY USE COLORED SAWDUST. ON A STREET TO HAVE A TRAIL WHERE  JESU WILL WALK THROUGH TO LESS PAINFUL  FOR CHRIST.   THEY VISIT BEACHES RIVERS AND POOLS WHEN IT IS SO HOT.  DURING CHRISTMAS THEY COOK SPECIAL DISHES TO MARK THE OCCASION.  SOME ARE TAMALES AND ALL HAVE FIREWORKS AND FIRECRACKERS.  MESTIZOS ARE 93%  OF THEIR POPULATION.  THEY HAD MANY NATIVE TRIBES.  THE GARFINAS DESCEND FROM AFRICAN SLQAVES OF THE CARIBBEAN FAMILY ARE AFRICAN SLAVES OF THE CARIBBEAN.

SALVADOR MONCADA AND OTHER FAMOUS FOLKS FROM HONDURAS ARE IN FOOTBALL.   THEY EAT MANY TYPES OF DISHES, BEANS AND ROASTED MEAT AND SCRAMBLED EGGS  THEY MAKE FRIED FISH AND BAKED PLAINTAIN.  THEY HAVE SOUP WITH BEANS, SEAFOOD AND OTHER VEGIS.  THEY MAKE CORN TOMALES AND PASSION FRUITS

MOST HONDURAN ARE CHRISTIANS AND CELEBRATE A CATHOLIC MASS.  IN 1502 PUNTA COXINAS FOUND THE HONDURANS CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT CHURCHES.  THE CHURCHES MAKE USE OF THE TV, RADIO, AND NEWSPAPER AND UNIVERSITIES.

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