- Ecuadorian shield
This is me. This shield is the most representable SYMBOL in Ecuador . Firts the color have it own meaning. Yellow all teh richteness of the country, blue our oceans rivers lagoons and sky and finally the red represent the blood of the people which fought to get our liberty.Inside the shield there is aso the Cotopaxi Volcano which is the biggest one of Ecuador and finally the condor which is a bird that represents liberty and power.Its interesting that every element have it own meaning and all of them together represents and idea in this case what Ecuador is .
- Indigenas dancing
These are Indigenas a group of people that reprecent our ethnicity .They have their own clothes laguaje and customs which represnts FOLKWAYS a group of habits or customs that are common in a given culture. Even though not every Ecuadorian acts like this now a days , this is what our forefathers used to do and this is why it is embraced until now.
- Colorados (Ethnian Group )
The colorados are na etnian group that represents a COUNTERCULTURE in Ecuador This is a subculture that champions values lifestyle distinctly opposed to those of the dominant coulture. This is a small society in my country that have a very diffrenet life style, they speak a different laguaje clothes and have very rare costums like painting their hair red as you can see in the picture .
- Hats Production
This hats are only produced by indigenas and their own raw material. Eventhough they have big demands of product they always use their hands as machines.This is a perfect exmaple of a CULTURAL OBJECT a physical item that is created by and associated with people who share a culture
- My first time in NY
This a personal picture ME and my friend 2 years ago when I arrived to New York City . I foudn out so interesting and amazinf all those graffitis in those old beautifull buildings . I trully had a CULTURAL SHOCK because I felt the experience of being disoriented because of mylack of knowledge in a unfamiliar society.
- Eating in the table with all the family .
This picture reminded me to my family . For us is essencial to have at least a meal together even if there is difficulties with our schedules. My parenths always teach me that family is the most important thing in everyones life.Having a family dinner represents IDEAL CULTURE which is what members of the culture should do becuase of our beliefs and norms. Since I lived in the United States and all my family in Ecuador I can not have a family dinner even if I believe that this is the right thing to do.
- Amazon tribe
This is an Ecuadorian Subculture. They are very popular in since they are very different from the rest of populations this is why this subculture suffers from Etnocentrism which is the practice od judging another culture by the standards of one's own .This tribe is usually naked and have a very complicated laguaje. I have to admit that we usually judge them because they dont follow our usual standars even if they are Ecuadorians I will fell very strange sharing with them. Dont you ? It will be very hard to focus if someone is not wearing clothes.
- Christenig Meeting
This is a picture of my family and ME , we are celebrating the chritening of the little man sitting in the chair which is wearing white.This is an example of regular NORMS that we apply in a christering meeting . First the honoree (the baby) have to wear white because it represents pureness . In this meeting an appropiete behaivor will be for the guest to wear formal clothes and have a lunch. Usually we give the baby a gift that will be about God or Virgin Mary. Its not a request to do all this things but it represent appropiete behaivor.
- Day of the dead celebration
This celebration is only if one day but anyway it is very important and essencial in our culture . This tradition started and still takes place because of Ecudaoriand BELIEFS which are specific convictions or opinions that people generally accept as being true. In this celebration we take food to cementeries and eat there so we can enjoy one more day with our beloved ones, it is like believing that they rise once every year .We know the dead appreciete it and that whenever we die our family will be doing this for us as well.
- Alcohol ban every Sunday
Alcohol is ban very Sunday ,this is a law that recently was applied . This is a perfect example of what MORES, which are norms that are strictly enforced, with potentially severe penalties for violating them. The penalty for this is at least 3 days of jail even if your are drinking it or not , only buying alcohol is wrong during Sunday. I have to say that I really do not like this law but I must follow it otherwise I will go to jail.
I was really surprised by your picture about amazon tribe and Colorados. Do they live near the area where you live?
ReplyDeleteEating each meals on the table with all family members are common in the United States. I think that's because people in your country and U.S cherish their parents and families very much as a common sense. My country, all family members eat together is very unusual. Because both parents working is increasing and they come back home late. I used to eat dinner with my sister and sleep by ourselves before my parents came home.
Your country has interesting culture. I enjoy them. I'm sorry that you can not drink every sunday!
Hey, Jhoselyn. very interesting blog entry. I love it. I think in almost every culture, eating with your family on the table is always a tradition. In my family, the most important meal in a day is dinner. No matter you hungry or not, you still have to sit there and have some food with your family because this is the only family time we can get throughout the day, since we are always out for work or school. I’m wondering what kinda meeting is that in the picture. You said baby is wearing white? It is a baby shower? Because in the usa, white is usually for wedding. do u usually have meeting in the daytime or night time? Because I’m guessing that your picture was taken in a day time. Anyways, it’s good to know more about your culture. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love your pictures in your blog, it really explains what country your from and what culture you come from as well, I found most of your pictures very interesting because first of, i didn't know that symbol meaned anything to you guys, next the picture that caught me attention is, there are still people out theit without no clothes? Is that part of their religion? or what? I have so many questions about that picture, and mostly is that in your country,? near you country? or somewhere else? because I honeslty thought being naked was okay or usual back in the days, I never knew it would still go on now on, I mean in my country in the village theres little kids running around naked but their little so their allowed to do that, other then that picture, all your other pictures were great and I have no futher questions for them, mostly I love how you took this assigment and connected it to your nationality.
ReplyDeleteHey, I see that your culture is Ecuador also. The photo where the people are not wearing any clothing is something I have not seen around my area since Ecuador is very big. But I do believe that if I was to have seen that before I would have been very shock since today we all wear clothing. Also I would of maybe judge them thinking they were poor and could not offer clothing. But I do understand now that it’s their beliefs within themselves. This is my problem that although Ecuador is my culture I do not know all of its culture. Like recently I learned about Carnival and I was really amazed by it. The people creating the hats I seen that before and not everyone does it anymore in Ecuador, I believe only the old people do since they still are in the material culture. Others around Cuenca are leaving it little by little since now there are machines that do it.
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ReplyDeleteNice job with redoing the assignment. I really love that you applied the things we talked about in class and you reworked the assignment. Good job.