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¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Thread started on: Feb 24th, 2009, 08:53am » |
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Mis amigos: we'll use this link to review and discuss Carnaval in Latinoamérica, and how traditions trace back to early Spain, Catholicism, and how African culture has further enriched the celebration.
http://www.thesummitprep.org/carnaval.asp
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #1 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 10:25am » |
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I think that it is really interesting that the Catholics would put on the devil masks and scare people that don't go to a church as often as they should. I would be scared out of my mind if i saw a guy with that on i would think that the devil is out to get me. another thing that i think is cool about the festival is that you have to be good for 46 days i could not do that. One of the things that i would do on my one day of badness before the 46 days of basically jail is party and watch chicken fights. if i could make a mask i would make it black and red.
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #2 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 10:30am » |
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The carnival celebration in Latin America sounds very scary but also it sounds fun! Some of the masks are made from coconut shells. Some of the people at the carnival wore masks but also some of them wore body costumes. Puerto Rico's big celebratio takes place in the last part of July. The people are really mean on the first day of the celebration but the next forty-six days they have to be very nice to one another! Do you think that it would be hard to be nice to everyone for forty-six days! I think it would be very hard! I would love to celebrate this holiday!
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #3 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 10:31am » |
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First of all, I would think that it would be creepy to get woken up in th middle of the night, because of someone was tapping on your window, and when you opened the blinds you were face to face with something you thouht was the devil!  Second, the masks are really cool, with the spikes and horns. Third, I think the cow/pig bladder thing is really gross! I mean what if you got hit with one! All the reliogous things are kind of creepy how everyone cares so much about religon, but I understand their dilagence. 
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #4 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 10:36am » |
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I think this is very intersting. I mean wearing mask and party until, I can't move. The costume is very cool, the have tons of colors, and they are very unique. I think it would be cool if the USA could have a holiday like Fat Tuesday. I don't think our Americans would be able to let go of choclate, drinking, and cigars. The USA would never be able to pull that off, Spainards have a lot of energy. They party like crazy during Christmas, Fat Tuesday, Easter, and a whole lot more. I really wish I could spend a holiday at a Spanish country. I also think that it would be kinda cruel to make someone not believe in their religion. When Catholics scare other people, it gives Catholics a big advantage. When people go to church, they put money for donations. It doesn't seem good not to put money in the box, so more times they go, the more money they make. I would also think, the Catholics don't have that big of an advantage. Catholics don't go to church 2 or 3 times a day. They probably only go once, but stay there all day long. Then, I would also think, after being acared so many times, they would catch on sooner or later. The religion is still very confusing and intersting! 
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #5 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 10:56am » |
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After reading and listening about Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, and lint I really can’t believe how they were so strict about religion. And how they would sneak by your house and knock on your door or window to scare you if you aren’t a “Good Catholic”. If that happened to me I would be freaked out and scared. Though it would be so much fun to party for days and go crazy, being almost perfect for 46 days might be almost impossible for me. Seeing those masks makes me want one so badly. I wish in the USA we were able to party like that because that would be so much fun. Though I don’t like having to be almost perfect for 46 days, but the partying, yes.
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #6 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 10:56am » |
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A lot of people think it would be scary but fun I would have to agree with them. I would enjoy going to a carnival because it is different from anything we do here in America, except for the getting hit randomly by a person in a big, great, scary mask or someone tapping on my window and you go and see a big mask who you thought looked like the devil. That we could leave out but then it would not be the same. The Masks take a lot of time to make they are a master piece. The masks are made of paper mache. When they celebrate this Carnival (also known as Fat Tuesday as American say.) They dance, play, talk, and drink until you can't dance, play, or drink anymore. I don't think it is very fair that Americans change all these cool holidays. Well sort of but we (as Americans) celebrate the carnival but as “fat Tuesday!” But we don’t make “fat Tuesday” as fun or existing. My question is: if you are not Catholic do you still dance party, drink, make mask/ buy masks for the carnival?
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #7 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 12:33pm » |
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The concept of partying crazily and then being a goody two shoes for the next 46 days seems really fun! It depends on how you perceive it; its sort of ironic in the sense that you can let out all you craziness one day, but need to be saint the next, but on the other hand it totally makes sense: letting out everything in order to rid yourself of evil or bad habits.
I wish America had more partying opportunities because it would be awesome to join in on the fun regardless of your religion. People often use religion as a barrier and a set of rules of what you should and shouldn't do. It doesn't have to be that way. I think we all should be able to party and have fun times without wondering if it is acceptable in religion. Because religion isn't supposed to set boundaries it is simply a particular system of faith and worship. A lot of religions are actually more related to others than you think.
From what I've seen and read I have gathered that Latin America is more a community based culture. That is, they interact a lot more with each other than we do in the United States. I think over all that community culture is a positive factor in Latin American life. I cannot even begin to fathom dancing in the streets in America. The concept is great but the execution is hard to imagine.
Ps. Theo, I also like to celebrate with mardi gras beads. Fortunately for me I'm not really into the whole "resolution" thing.
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #8 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 12:33pm » |
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Religion is something that is more complicated than a difficult math problem. I don't understand why we have millions of different religions and different beliefs. Humans are a complicated race and have extravagant minds. I think it's pointless to have many different religions, but that in a specific religion, there are different beliefs. In Protestantism, there are Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and many more, and even in one section of Christianity, there are still different beliefs. I said all of that to say that religions can be so different.
Being raised as a southern baptist, I would have never even imagined wearing a terrifying mask on a holiday, I wouldn't celebrate by dancing in the streets and I certainly wouldn't party. That would've sounded crazy to me as a child. Now, as we learn about different cultures and different religions, I'm thinking, We're boring! The closest thing to partying Southern Missouri is New Years Eve and I'm sure that's no where near as exciting as Fat Tuesday.
I want to go to Rio de Janeiro and party in the streets. I think that would be "fun" (to quote Theo), and such a different experience. Like I've said before, other cultures fascinate me, and I would love to take one year and go visit another country. I would like to just get to know their ways, and live the way they do. Someday, *when I have money!* I'm going to go to Rio and spend Fat Tuesday with the Brazilians! Party!
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #9 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 12:33pm » |
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Even though Fat Thuesday is a holiday for Catholics, I think it would be fun to join the celebration. Fat Tuesday is a good way of pigging out and giving up something that is really hard to give up. It probably helps you accomplish something new every year. Quiting, stopping, ending, something that would be really hard to do. I think that Fat Tuesday would take away a pleasure but, replace it with a good accomplished feeling.
The "Carnival" sounds really snazy and fun, full of energy pumped and scared stiff people. If I could I would go! Though I would also have to look at the possibility of being spooked from people in clown like costumes and Vejigante masks randomly popping up. Not only are the masks decoration or costume but, are also used to represent, which I add is also neat.
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #10 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 12:34pm » |
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When browsing through the information and pictures of the Carnaval celebration in Latin America, the one word that keeps coming back to my mind is "fun" and I think I'd be willing to attempt to dodge the air-filled animal innards if ever given the chance to join in this fun. Since I was old enough to understand any holiday, I was celebrating Mardi Gras, but the extent of said celebration for me was a few strands of beads, and possibly a cajun meal, compliments of my older sister, none of which are remotely comparable to the party in Rio de Janeiro. The bulk of my celebration since my first year at Catholic school (first grade) has been in making Lent resolutions with my always self-improving mother. Fun! ..... Not.
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #11 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 12:35pm » |
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Everyone says that having someone in a big "scary" mask tap on your window is scary, well i don't think that would be very scary. In fact it would be funny, i would most likely laugh at the person for trying. They may know how to party but how am i supposed to sleep if everyone is shouting. I know everyone will just say, why don't you go party with them or something, well i would. I would but i can't for more than three hours, i tire fast. Sure it would be fun and all but why does everyone think americans can't party? Haven't you people ever heard of the 1920's? Or the 70's and 80's? That was all we did for over 10 years!!! Anyway i still think it would be fun, but i would get really, really mad. Because everyone would throw stuff at me i would hate that. Even if i didn't do anything. Oh well, i still want to go just to say that i went, AND DID SOMETHING. (Because everyone thinks I'm lazy) As for the costumes, well i just think they are ridiculous they look like clowns, not kidding, devil clowns. The mask are pretty cool, the ones that don't have a nose like an elephant, the ones with red tipped horns are the best. But the way it got started was very interesting, i would've never guessed that. I think that it's cool how they started to make the mask, I mean scaring people into believing you and starting an awesome holiday, what could be better. I also would've never thought people could use cow bladders like THAT. I also would've never thought that the catholics started that holiday, it's quite surprising.
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« Reply #12 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 12:39pm » |
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I think that the masks are really cool. If I had a job down there I would want to be a mask/costume maker because they probably make a lot of money making masks for everyone else and I would get to make my mask free for myself. I also think that they throw way better parties than we do. They get a whole country to party while we barely party.
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #13 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 12:43pm » |
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Carnaval is the beginning of the Catholic holy season, where during Carnaval they pig out, then they have to give up something that they really like; for example, chocolate, I would have to give up chocolate or at least eating it for 46 days. The idea of masks are for scaring people who do not go to church as often as they should, and they think that the mask is the devil tapping on their window, coming to haunt them. The masks came along when the African slaves were told to convert from Santaría to Catholicism by the Spaniards, but they had no intention of doing that, and then they started wearing masks of their good or evil (for both were scary and unusual) for rituals and worshipping, which pleased and fooled the Spaniards, and they continued their practice of Santaría.
Carnaval seems like a lot of fun, especially the devil masks and scaring people; as long as I'm not the one being scared! The devil masks being made of cow and pig bladders is kind of gross, but to have fun, that's a sacrifice that you would have to make.
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Re: ¡Carnaval en Latinoamérica!
« Reply #14 on: Feb 24th, 2009, 2:16pm » |
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I think that it is very intersting that they do this. I think they are very colorful and take a lot of work to do. I think that it would be scary to see someone come to your door and scare you becuace you haven't been to church. I think it is intersting how they will be bad and drink and eat and then they turn their self off and be all good and give up somthing they love and like to eat or do. We celebrate it a little here but not like they do in Brazil and Domincan Republic. we also do not make scary masks and celebrate it for days and days. Then they sleep after they stay up for that long time. It amazes me that here in America that we do not miss school for just that and in Brazil or any other country that celerbrates the Carnaval.
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