We watched a video It was about a guy absorbing people. There are the same symbols that mean different things in different areas. The OK symbolist ok in some places. Anti-clock wise for crazy and clock wise for intellect. The smiling comes fear. So basically everywhere is different in many different ways.
If they are moving to Japan I think that we should be prepared to speak there language. But if they are just visiting at least no some basics.
It depends on the person why they are getting a tattoo. some people just have them because they think they are cool, and others because they may have lost someone or had a hard time. So I think if the person has a prayer or someones name or picture of someone the tattoo says something about the person.
I think a person needs to learn the language of whatever country they are in. If a person wants to learn a different language the option should be open.
Languages disappear because people were not taught them. The only way to preserve languages is only if people want to. If it don't affect them then they probably wont.
I think the U.S.A should have one official language just so we can all understand each other. And have a stable government.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Day 6
On this day we had a guess speaker named Lauren Yellowbird. He was born in white shield on ft berth old reservation. His tribe has lived in the North Dakota area for about 750 years. His Indian name is medicine horse, giving to him when he graduated high school. This is very impotant to there culture.
He works at Fort union post as a park ranger. And he gets to tell people about his culutrue but doestn get very much time as he would like. His background, he is a descendant of Son of the Star. arikara chief. a very distinguished man. He is one man Lauren admires in all of history. Bear's teeth is on his fathers side, lauren studied culture and anthropology. bear's teeth was a very powerful medicine man. These are two main figures that he is tied to. the medicine lodge had a lot of things there, they were very spiritual people. He also is Part hidatsa, some people don't like to claim a certain heritage.
One thing they are famous for is in the 1800's little big horn battle. arikara was the main fighting scouting force for custer. sometimes arikara catch flak for helping custer. other tribes will come up to arikara and call them traitors two things remember growing up, mother corn and bloody knife. bloody knife was a scout. they had a lot of back and forth with the sioux. their village was attacked over 600 times over 6 years.
The things that they are trying to keep alive in there culuture is language, music, ceramonies, ediquitte repect visions of leaders.
When I was younger I always thought indians were cool because the had cool names. And when I was little my "Indian name" was blue bird. I think they are more intuned with nature. I wish people new more about them. I kind of want to learn how they dance looks and sounds like fun. But there is alot in this cultue I do not understand and I would like to learn more about it.
He works at Fort union post as a park ranger. And he gets to tell people about his culutrue but doestn get very much time as he would like. His background, he is a descendant of Son of the Star. arikara chief. a very distinguished man. He is one man Lauren admires in all of history. Bear's teeth is on his fathers side, lauren studied culture and anthropology. bear's teeth was a very powerful medicine man. These are two main figures that he is tied to. the medicine lodge had a lot of things there, they were very spiritual people. He also is Part hidatsa, some people don't like to claim a certain heritage.
One thing they are famous for is in the 1800's little big horn battle. arikara was the main fighting scouting force for custer. sometimes arikara catch flak for helping custer. other tribes will come up to arikara and call them traitors two things remember growing up, mother corn and bloody knife. bloody knife was a scout. they had a lot of back and forth with the sioux. their village was attacked over 600 times over 6 years.
The things that they are trying to keep alive in there culuture is language, music, ceramonies, ediquitte repect visions of leaders.
When I was younger I always thought indians were cool because the had cool names. And when I was little my "Indian name" was blue bird. I think they are more intuned with nature. I wish people new more about them. I kind of want to learn how they dance looks and sounds like fun. But there is alot in this cultue I do not understand and I would like to learn more about it.
Holiday
The holiday I chose is from China it is called Dragon boat festival. It is celebrated on the 5th of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calander. “Legend of the Dragon Boat Festival's Origin At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the area we now know as China had fallen into a state of fragmentation and conflict. While the Zhou dynasty had ruled for several centuries, several other states, originally feudal domains, tried to carve out their own kingdoms. The state of Qin would eventually emerge the victor and unify all of China under one rule for the first time in history. Qu Yuan served as minister to the Zhou Emperor. A wise and articulate man, he was loved by the common people. He did much to fight against the rampant corruption that plagued the court-- thereby earning the envy and fear of other officials. Therefore, when he urged the emperor to avoid conflict with the Qin Kingdom, the officials pressured the Emperor to have him removed from service. In exile, he traveled, taught and wrote for several years. Hearing that the Zhou had been defeated by the Qin, he fell into despair and threw himself into the Milou River. His last poem reads:
Many a heavy sigh I have in my despair,
Grieving that I was born in such an unlucky time.
I yoked a team of jade dragons to a phoenix chariot,
And waited for the wind to come,
to sour up on my journey
Grieving that I was born in such an unlucky time.
I yoked a team of jade dragons to a phoenix chariot,
And waited for the wind to come,
to sour up on my journey
As he was so loved by the people, fishermen rushed out in long boats, beating drums to scare the fish away, and throwing zong zi into the water to feed braver fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body.” (http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/dragonboat/dragon.html).
On the 5th of the 5th month Dragon boat festival. They have dragon boat races, and festival food and other activities. But the most popular that day of course is the dragon boat race. The boats are painted brightly and has fun designs on them, they look like a canoe.
I wish we had a fun and cool holiday like this. Even though I probably won’t be the one of the people in the boats, I think it would be very fun to watch. Or even decorate the boats.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Day 5
The video "Journey to Hate Free" Is a very good video that I think everybody should watch. The video starts out talking about peoples deaths, and how they could be prevented. The first story was on A guy named Matthew killed by a hate crime. He was a well liked guy. The reasoning for his death that I got out of the video was he was a homosexual. I think people should just stay out of other peoples business and leave others alone. If they are not harming you why harm them whats the point?
There was a part in the video about a man named James. They found his body with know head. The body was to bad that they could not tell who it was. They had to identify him by his finger prints. What they did was they took him to a dark back road and beat him up than they tied hes ankles to a chain on to the back of a pick up truck, and dragged him for two miles and they were swerving. It looked like he was trying to protect himself my using his elbows. He died when was decapitate on the culvert, then they dumped his body in front of a black church. Its another hate crime. This guy was very talented in the musical area and he also was a grandfather. It is sad to see people so ful of hate.
The last story was on a Columbine shooting. There were two kids dressed in trench coachs going around shooting other kids. There are so many of these kinds of hate crimes it makes me sad. How can people be so hateful.
Towards the end of the vidoe it talkes about ways that could help prevent hate. The first places that we need to start are with parents. Now days both parents are working and have no time for children, but parnets need to make time. Second place that can help is schools, teach children that there are different people in this world with different beliefs and values. Another place could be reliogion, let your kids know it is okay for others to believe in something else.
We had some articles that we were supposed to read. And they are on hate crime, and sterotype. People are targeting the ones who are different than others in there own way. People who are disabled, or are homosexual, who are not like them. Maybe not normal in there eyes. I think hate is a learned trait. I think if someone is angry they need to find away to get rid of the anger by not hurting others in the process. What I do depending on the situation when I get angry, I will go for a walk and scream when there is no one around, or ill play video games. There are many ways that we can avoid these crimes if people would just stop and think or go get help before they act.
There was a part in the video about a man named James. They found his body with know head. The body was to bad that they could not tell who it was. They had to identify him by his finger prints. What they did was they took him to a dark back road and beat him up than they tied hes ankles to a chain on to the back of a pick up truck, and dragged him for two miles and they were swerving. It looked like he was trying to protect himself my using his elbows. He died when was decapitate on the culvert, then they dumped his body in front of a black church. Its another hate crime. This guy was very talented in the musical area and he also was a grandfather. It is sad to see people so ful of hate.
The last story was on a Columbine shooting. There were two kids dressed in trench coachs going around shooting other kids. There are so many of these kinds of hate crimes it makes me sad. How can people be so hateful.
Towards the end of the vidoe it talkes about ways that could help prevent hate. The first places that we need to start are with parents. Now days both parents are working and have no time for children, but parnets need to make time. Second place that can help is schools, teach children that there are different people in this world with different beliefs and values. Another place could be reliogion, let your kids know it is okay for others to believe in something else.
We had some articles that we were supposed to read. And they are on hate crime, and sterotype. People are targeting the ones who are different than others in there own way. People who are disabled, or are homosexual, who are not like them. Maybe not normal in there eyes. I think hate is a learned trait. I think if someone is angry they need to find away to get rid of the anger by not hurting others in the process. What I do depending on the situation when I get angry, I will go for a walk and scream when there is no one around, or ill play video games. There are many ways that we can avoid these crimes if people would just stop and think or go get help before they act.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Day 4
The speakers were both very different. The first speaker on South Africa was loaded with information to share and was talking so fast try to get it all in. I tryed to keep up, she had some very interesting information. The second speaker on Canada was a more layed back type of person very easy to relate to and ask questions just because he was more in our age group.
South Africa was forced to feel ashamed of there culture by the Caucasians. They became slaves in there own land. They used biblical principles to enslave the people, South Africa has 41 million, now closer to 60 million. More than 50 percent of the population is black ghandi brought indentured servants to work on sugar beet plantations from India. The culture is still alive despite apartheid. The culture is still alive because people now are deliberately reliving their culture, they no longer feel ashamed. One of the problems they faced in South Africa was they have eleven officaical languages. The missionaries from the united States would help them learn because there schools would not. Another problem that the Africa faced were aids and thousand of there people died. The culture is very musically orientated. They used music to help them get through the hard times. To get married a man would bring ten cows to trade for his women to show that he was wealthy. The food that they would eat would be grits/cream of wheat, it would be dry and lumpy they would put gravy on it. South Africa to day has 21 university's open to everyone.
Canada is big on hockey everybody in Canada plays hockey. The winters are colder and snowier than ours is. There are 33million people in Canada. Drinking is not enforced in Canada like it is in the USA . A person can start drinking at age 18 or 19 depending on what part of Canada you are in. Hunting rules are different then that are in the United States. Hunting starts at age 12, need hunters safety. 12 year old cannot be in a bush without a person whoa PAL card. In Canada they do not have to worry about health care because there taxes will cover it. The police are not as strict as thet are here. Military is not even close to as good as the United States. College is a lot harder in Cananda because there are alot more students, and the professor treats you like a number.
South Africa was forced to feel ashamed of there culture by the Caucasians. They became slaves in there own land. They used biblical principles to enslave the people, South Africa has 41 million, now closer to 60 million. More than 50 percent of the population is black ghandi brought indentured servants to work on sugar beet plantations from India. The culture is still alive despite apartheid. The culture is still alive because people now are deliberately reliving their culture, they no longer feel ashamed. One of the problems they faced in South Africa was they have eleven officaical languages. The missionaries from the united States would help them learn because there schools would not. Another problem that the Africa faced were aids and thousand of there people died. The culture is very musically orientated. They used music to help them get through the hard times. To get married a man would bring ten cows to trade for his women to show that he was wealthy. The food that they would eat would be grits/cream of wheat, it would be dry and lumpy they would put gravy on it. South Africa to day has 21 university's open to everyone.
Canada is big on hockey everybody in Canada plays hockey. The winters are colder and snowier than ours is. There are 33million people in Canada. Drinking is not enforced in Canada like it is in the USA . A person can start drinking at age 18 or 19 depending on what part of Canada you are in. Hunting rules are different then that are in the United States. Hunting starts at age 12, need hunters safety. 12 year old cannot be in a bush without a person whoa PAL card. In Canada they do not have to worry about health care because there taxes will cover it. The police are not as strict as thet are here. Military is not even close to as good as the United States. College is a lot harder in Cananda because there are alot more students, and the professor treats you like a number.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Day 4
There were two very interesting speakers this day. One talking about South Africa, she was very fast when she talked but she had so much information she wanted to tell she tryed to make sure we got most of it. I hope I got a good enough grasp on it. They Other was On Canada he was more layed backed and we could relate to him more because he was in our age group.
South Africa the Caucasian invaders forced the Africans to feel ashamed of there culture. They made them slaves in there own land. They used biblical principles to enslave the people, south Africa has 41 million, now closer to 60 million. More than 50 percent of the population is black ghandi brought indentured servants to work on sugar beet plantations form India.The eventually came to an agreement that they would live together with mutual respect. There are many other problems in South Africa they had to face Aids and lose over a million of people. Also in South Africa there are eleven official languages. And if you wanted to get married a man would offer ten cows for you. And if you were married the women would have red dots on there four head. In South Africa today that have 21 colleges that anybody can go to. In Africa they would eat grits/cream of wheat that was dry and clumpy they would and gravy on top of it.
Canada is a hockey country everbody in Canada plays hockey. Canada has a prime ministor instead of a president. Winters in Canada are alot colder than they are here in North Dakota. There are 33 million people in Canada. The drinking laws are not as strict as they are here in the US. In Canada you can legaly start drinking at age 17 or 18 depending on what part of Canada you are on. Also the police are not as strict as they are here in the US. Hunting is also different. Hunting starts at age twelve, need hunter safty, then can buy muzzle loader, rifle and archery tags, twelve year olds cannot be bush without a person who has a PAL card.The only tags to apply for is draw. You can shoot deer almost anytime a person wants to. In Canada they trust people they dont lock there houses when they are gone or even their car doors. They do not have to pay for healthcare because they pay it through taxes. There military is not near as good as The united states. And most of the jobs out there in Canada is farming.
South Africa the Caucasian invaders forced the Africans to feel ashamed of there culture. They made them slaves in there own land. They used biblical principles to enslave the people, south Africa has 41 million, now closer to 60 million. More than 50 percent of the population is black ghandi brought indentured servants to work on sugar beet plantations form India.The eventually came to an agreement that they would live together with mutual respect. There are many other problems in South Africa they had to face Aids and lose over a million of people. Also in South Africa there are eleven official languages. And if you wanted to get married a man would offer ten cows for you. And if you were married the women would have red dots on there four head. In South Africa today that have 21 colleges that anybody can go to. In Africa they would eat grits/cream of wheat that was dry and clumpy they would and gravy on top of it.
Canada is a hockey country everbody in Canada plays hockey. Canada has a prime ministor instead of a president. Winters in Canada are alot colder than they are here in North Dakota. There are 33 million people in Canada. The drinking laws are not as strict as they are here in the US. In Canada you can legaly start drinking at age 17 or 18 depending on what part of Canada you are on. Also the police are not as strict as they are here in the US. Hunting is also different. Hunting starts at age twelve, need hunter safty, then can buy muzzle loader, rifle and archery tags, twelve year olds cannot be bush without a person who has a PAL card.The only tags to apply for is draw. You can shoot deer almost anytime a person wants to. In Canada they trust people they dont lock there houses when they are gone or even their car doors. They do not have to pay for healthcare because they pay it through taxes. There military is not near as good as The united states. And most of the jobs out there in Canada is farming.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Family tree part 2
Most of our values come from our religion. In our family, family is always first, and you always put others before yourself.
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