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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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....

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.                 

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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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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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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