Latin+America-Party+Atmosphere

by: Devon Jon Emillio and Nik Decorations in Latin America

Many different cultures have many different decorations for different celebrations. The importance of festivals of south american cultures not only south american, but all cultures is very important to their and shows disrespect if not done correctly. Cinco de mayo the fith of may is marks the 1862 victory of the mexican army over the frech at the batalla de puebla. that battle not only serves as a symbol of mexican patriotism and unity of decorations and mexican culture as well. The day of the dead festival or Dia de los Muertos. The day of the dead celebrations can be traced back to the indigenous cultures. Ritual celebrating the death of ancestors have been observed by civilizations perhaps as long as 2500 to 3000 years ago. Some decorations that would be used would be pinyatas altars to show respect for their elders. the altars have asorted fruits and other foods and drinks that the dead person likes. these altars also have a picture of the person and flowers. Candles are a big decoration in this festival. The candles are there to direct the dead spirits in the dark. Foods include day of the dead bread and things such as candy skulls. Skeletons are a widely used decoration for this holiday. This holiday however is not a sad holiday it celebrates life after death. Brazilian cultures have many differnt customes compared to latin american but still have the latin culture in it with a little twist.Some things they dont have in common witch realy people dont cuncider them latin american would be there languge witch is a big differnce. Brazil is the 6th largest population in the world with 148,000,000 people. Sao paulo have peraids called bloco dose sujos "nasty school" witch is alot like marty gra witch is one of the biggest festivals in the world. So what we were trying to get at to you though this paper were that in many culturs that are conciderd latin america even though they have differnt tasts have the say concept and in every cultur of latin american have differnt tastes in decorations through music to food to decorations in genuarl. In this infomation we are trying to discrib what differnt culrurs in the same ethnissity are like in the decorations in every differnt holiday they have hope you like it! media type="custom" key="6453079"


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