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By: Krist Villacorta,Diego Rivera, Ally Samson, and Dagim Tessema
Is a festival to honor the dead. It's a lively celebration, a Latin American custom that combines indigenous Aztec ritual with Catholicism. The multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and help support their spiritual journey.
Compare and Contrast
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The Mah Meri tribe in Mayalsia, celebrate their dead with a day of dancing that's steeped in tradition. Shamans offer blessings before the ceremonies begin.
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Chuseok is a three-day harvest festival, but it's also the holiday during which Korean people honor their ancestors. Each year, about 30 million people in Korea visit the hometowns of their ancestors to pay homage. People pray, clean the tombs of their immediate ancestors, and offer them food and drink.
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Hindu people honor their ancestors as far as seven generations back; which is a really long time. They begin by bathing in sacred ponds and rivers, and continue by offering prayers and food to their ancestors as they return from the afterlife for the night to feast.
Cultural Influences
To start off what is culture? Well according to Google culture "is the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group." So with this in mind how do different cultures influence each other?
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A example of how cultures influence each other is Tomb sweeping day. This holiday is celebrated by the chinese and they focuses on celebrating spirits of people who died during tragedies, or in situations that are considered “sensitive”, as well as deceased ancestors. This holiday is actually older then Dias de los muertos but this may be one of the reasons of how Dias de los Muertos became to be.
Cultures influences each other because of cultural blending. This is caused by migration, pursuit of religious freedom, trade, and conquest. This why some cultures may have such similar holidays or methods during certain events.
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Cultural Traditions
Cultural similarities
Other than country, there are many things that different cultures share. Some of these things being customs, rituals, and values. An example of this would be Ethiopian and Eritrean culture. Even though they are different cultures, they still have very similar types of foods and lifestyles
How Do Different Cultures Celebrate the Dead?
There are many different cultures around the world, and they each have a certain way they honor their dead. Here is a few examples:
Honoring the Dead Around the World
Japanese
Japan
In Japan, they have a festival called Obon.This Buddhist holiday has been celebrated in Japan for 500 years. Families gather to clean and decorate the graves of their loved ones, and then release lanterns to help guide their spirits. The holiday also features a traditional dance.
Chinese
China
In China, they have the Hungry Ghost Festival.This festival lasts a whole month. In traditional belief, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the time when spirits roam the Earth. To satisfy these ghosts, people burn offerings for them and leave out food.
Ukrainian
Ukraine
In Ukraine, rituals are heavily rooted in tradition. They organize banquet feasts on the third, ninth and 40th days after death, and again on the six-month and one-year anniversaries of the deceased’s passing.