Conclusion: culture shape by people

             As what I define in my first entry, culture is a pattern of human activity and the symbols that give significance to these activities. In a simple ways culture can be understand as one form of human action. Sometimes culture is exist because people shape it due to their beliefs. For example, in my previous entry, people call baby with other name even the baby has her or his own name in order to prevent them from keep crying all the night. This situation is coincidently effective to the baby. The baby does not cry anymore and people believe it is because the other name than given to the baby. Beside that, sometimes cultures also help shape an individual. This is because by culture people can determine their self to be in what group, also culture can be as our guide in doing something. As a conclusion, culture can't being alone without people to practice it. Live with varieties of culture can enrich our self at the same time it portray our attitude.

things that really exist in welding culture

1) Malay (zakat kahwin)

        At Malaysia zakat kahwin is a must if you are being invited to "walimatulurus". Zakat kahwin is a give from guest to the bride in a form of money. The amount of money is depends on the state and the relationship of the guest and the bride. By looking at this culture we can see that Malay people is trying to help each others but at the same time it can be weird when the guest that you invited to your event with the intention to merry your event has to pay some amount of money. Nowadays this culture is being less practice because people varieties their self with more suitable  present to be given to the bride.

2)  Germany (Kidnapping the bride)

        

      At Germany, there are small villages that practice weird culture of wedding where groom's friends hide his bride somewhere. Usually the groom will not like this culture because it ends in a bad way. The culture plays when the bride is being search by the groom. In this culture the groom will invite all of their friends to find the bride together.

3) Germany (Log sawing)

       this culture is being practice in German marriage tradition in intention of, to measure the groom and bride physical skills.  By this the bride and groom can portrays their cooperative and agreeableness towards each others. This culture is play when the groom and bride are being asked to saw the log with two sawhorses. Couple that can work together till end of the task indicate that they will enjoy together in their marriage while couple who don’t they will have a rocky one.

4) Swedish (Kissing by guest)

        At Swedish they also practice weird culture in their wedding and its call kissing by guest. In this culture, guests get opportunity to kiss the bride and groom. The tradition take place when the bride goes to the restroom, then there are many women line up to kiss the groom while if the groom exist the hall men will line up to take opportunity to kiss the bride.

5) Scotland (Blacking the bride and groom)

     

        blackening the bride and groom means both couple will be treated in bad way in their wedding ceremony. This culture took place in Scotland where the groom and bride was blackening with something smells bad such as smelling sauces, spoiled milk and rotten eggs by throw all that things to them. After the prank was done people parade up and down them at the main street of town in order to make sure everyone see the groom and bride. Worst, they were being tar with molasses and douse them with feathers. The groom and bride can’t angry on what guests have done to them because they just follow what culture told them to do so.

resources:
1) http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2011/08/hen-night-with-a-difference-blackening-the-bride/

2)http://www.blindloop.com/index.php/2010/07/5-weird-marriage-traditions/

The uniqueness cultures of Kelantan

         Being Kelantanese is something that can be proud of. This is because Kelantan do have many unique cultures that can be explore by youth nowadays. Knowing about that will give nothings to regret. The practice of kelantanese daily is quite influence by their culture in term of life style, entertainment and food.

1) Dikir Barat

           

               Dikir Barat one of the kelantanese cultures practices in term of entertainment. Usually it involves a group of singer that consist of tukang karut as a leader and awok-awok in any kind of group size. Tukang karut is important to begin the performance by sing the poems and followed by the awok-awok. While awok-awok will sing the song exactly like what tukang karut did and in same times they have to clapping and make energetic body movements. More interesting Dikir barat will be accompany with music that played by the members of the groups such as gong, gendang, rebana and also kerincing. For the beginning of the culture it was dominated by the men but nowadays women also involving their self in this culture entertainment. Dikir barat theme relate more to lyrics that touch upon life, like any poet, but he can also address social issues, legal matters, animal lifestyles, government regulations, and human foibles. The tone can be satirical, sarcastic, or simply humorous, but above all it is expected that it be clever.

2) Wayang kulit Kelantan

            
             Other than dikir barat kelantanese also love to play wayang kulit. This wayang kulit also their culture practices that still exist in nowadays and usually perform during various festive occasions. Wayang kulit can be consider as theatre that refer to popular shadow puppet show in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, especially those in Kelantan and Terengganu, and also in Johor. Wayang kulit being play by using the puppets are crafted from buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. Light is the most important element and being use with a piece of white cloth that held up in front of the light, with an electric bulb or an oil lamp as the light source, shadows are cast on the screen. The most important person in this entertainment is tok dalang where he is the genius behind the entire performance. It is he who sits behind the screen and narrates the story.

3) Food of paradise in Kelantan

           Most Kelantanese food is influence by Thailand  dishes and it being one of the uniqueness culture in Kelantan. If you have to stay in Kelantan for several days, I bet you would have to survive in term of having a meal. . This is because major food in Kelantan are consist of sweet food but for those who don’t mind about having a sweet food you just put yourself in food of paradise. It became Kelantanase culture to have sweet food in every each meal that they have, even the curry also taste sweet. Kelantanese Thai dish is 'kaeng matsaman which is beef curry cooked with peanuts, potatoes and chopped red onions in a thick coconut milk source. Even though the taste is sweet, there are many tourist claims that Kelantan do have a lot of delightful food such as akok, netbat, taik itik and many others foods. The varieties of food in Kelantan make kelantan have their own identity.

4) Kelantanese life style

               

            By looking at people in Kelantan we can say that their attitudes are influence by their culture. This is because most of the residents run the business as their main work.  Previously men have dominated in this culture but now we can see women also can work by their own. Kelantanese prefer to work by self rather than being employ by others. If you have an opportunity to be in Kelantan, take a chance to visit pasar siti khatijah where there are many women sell their own stuff such as food, vegetables, clothes, and jewellery. Others than that, kelantanese love to have their own asset. For women they love to spend the money on the gold jewellery and they believe it important for their seek of future.

          As a conclusion, Kelantan do have a lot of unique culture that being practices everyday. If you have the chances go there and tried to experience the Kelantan's culture by your own self.

resources:
1) http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang_Kulit

2) http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikir_barat

3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelantan

Malay weird culture

1) Plant baby ‘s placenta with stationary.

      As Malaysian I feel sometimes our old culture does no make even sense. Malay does plant the placenta that came together with babies when they are born, but past generation they plant baby’ placenta with all kind of stationary in order to make sure the baby is done well in their education and successes with their study. This kind of things being practice by old generation because, at that time they still don’t expose widely about what is education is all about but generation nowadays absolutely does not flow this kind of culture anymore due to our modern life style nowadays. What we believe in order to make brilliant babies we should practice them with letter and number since they are young and there are easy to learn.

 2) Call babies with others name when they cried all the night

         

         Malaysia also do have several weird culture that being practice among the societies. Name that gives for the babies is important to make sure they own identity when they were born. Sometimes when babies keep crying all the night people would say that the baby demand to have others name. The name that was given to him or her is not suitable. Logically we would think that, the baby might feel uneasy with their stomach or maybe having a fever but people back then think it in other way. This culture being less practice due to the modern life style nowadays.

RESOURCE:

1) http://asalusulorangmelayu.wordpress.com/

2) http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Malaysia/Negeri_Kelantan/Local_Customs-Negeri_Kelantan-MISC-BR-1.html

Top four of interesting culture in world.

Previously, I was stated and define on what culture is about and characteristic of culture. Culture is precious to some one who really knows to practice and appreciate it. For this entry, I would like to expose all of you with most interesting culture in world.

Thailand

 Based on my review, there are top five cultures that enticing by their own historical such as Thailand’s culture, Japanese’s culture.Thailand’s culture can be seen in their uniqueness of language where it derived from Khmer, Sanskrit, Pali, Malay and Chinese. Even English is second language for many countries and widely spoken nowadays, but Thai language still being use in daily for business and education in several places like Kelantan.

To get know Thailand we also have to know their man of the country which is The Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the Royal Family that hold a deservedly high and revered position in the country. You will do well to respect this popular public sentiment. Other than respecting their King Thai’s people have a highest level of respect to their Buddhist monks. They also command a great deal of respect in Thai society. Women should step aside to make way for passing monks and avoid any accidental contact. Apart of that, the Wai is used by Thai people to showing their respect to others or between them to greeting in farewell or in acknowledgement. This culture is similar to the Indian Namaste gesture. You put your palms together at chest level and bow your head.

Other than that, Thai attitude also one of the uniqueness and it almost similar with Malay’s attitude such as, It is considered rude to touch anyone on the head or to touch them with your feet and considered offensive to sit with your feet pointing at someone. You should remove shoes when entering someone's house or a temple. In Thai funerals usually last for a week, during which many prayers are recited and crying is not encouraged.   

Japan

Second interesting culture is Japan where it is a country of diverse customs and culture and most technologically advanced countries in the world. This is what makes it so unique which is the mix of tradition and modernity. The obvious culture in japans is geisha. Geisha is a person of the arts are primarily women who entertain guests by engaging in various forms of performing arts such as playing musical instruments, dancing, carrying out a tea ceremony, Ikebana or flower arrangement, and reciting poetry. For the first establishing of geisha it was dominated by the male and not long after that women began to follow suit and soon this became a completely female-dominated profession. Some people thought that geisha is involve in prostitution. This is a myth that has been spread because during the Second World War, a lot of girls sold themselves to American soldiers by calling themselves geisha girls. Geisha are hired primarily for entertainment.

Other enticing cultures of Japan are their custom in term of Greetings, Punctuality and Work Ethics, and Visiting Houses and Hospitality. The reasons why bows are so important are because they express reverence for the opposite person. Other than that, The Japanese are very punctual people, and punctuality does not only apply to the workplace ethics, but any kind of social engagement. Hygiene also the customs of japan where this can be see in when they visiting house and hospitality. The shoes are being removed outside the house and being pointed outward in order to prevent soil in house.

Malaysia

Others than that, as a Malaysian I review Malaysia is an interesting culture among the world in term of their people, music and also cuisine. Malaysia is consists of many races such as Malay, china, India and others The Malay people cover more than half of the population of Malaysia.. This can lead Malaysia to the most contribute culture among the races. The Malaysian music has seen influences from the Indonesia, Portugal and even has influences from Thai forms and Chinese styles. The pop scene has seen many developments in Malaysia and the more traditional kind of music was popularized in the 1920s-1930s. Yet another genre, the Pop Yeh-Yeh ruled the Malaysian music scenario in from the year 1965 to 1971. The last beautiful of Malaysia culture is their cuisine where rice and noodles are the main food for Malaysian. It must spicy and sweet. This cuisine also includes many dishes that use an array of seafood.

Philippine

Philippine is a beautiful country that sees a mix of diverse cultures with over 70 million people. The beauty of Philippine can be seeing in term of their cuisine, music and dance and also their art. Philippines love to eat snack such as chicharon, bibingka, and lechon and it be the main food for them. Chicharon is a deep-fried pork or chicken dish. Apart from this, the bibingka which is a rice cake and the lechon is a whole roasted pig is also a popular dish in the cuisine.

The music styles of Philippines also can be one of the attractiveness and their music seen have European and American influences. The dance of the Filipinos is seen in various forms and styles such as in forms of folk dance. All such folk dances are only done in groups and here, bamboo sticks are used in accompaniment with the steps being performed Apart from music and dance, art in traditional forms of paintings are also very much predominant in this culture. Other forms of art and craft such as weaving and pottery are also common amongst certain groups of people.

In a nut shell, it is important to protect, keep and practice our culture. Expose the culture to others also one of the way to prestigious the culture. Being know others culture is a precious opportunity to have. 

resources:http://www.buzzle.com/articles/world-cultures-heritage/

Intro and culture's define

           This Blog were created especially for Digital and Mobile Communication (ITE 3563) subject. This blog will introduce people about the culture that exist throughout the country. Readers would enjoy new information about culture that you might never been expose without being in the place but by visiting and enjoy the words on this blog, you would feel that you experience the culture by own self.

               

             Of course people do have a culture of it own. Each person has different culture that might give a proud to them with their particular culture that they belong to.

The word 'culture' that hails from the Latin word, 'cultura' derived from 'colere', means, 'to cultivate'. Culture can be defined as pattern of human activity and the symbols that give significance to these activities. In a simple ways culture can be understand as one form of human action that can be seen in many aspect such as language, religion, social habit, their system of beliefs that held by the people of the region, their principles of life and also their moral values.

              Culture can be seen in several characteristic such as culture is share, means we shared the culture in a group that we belongs to. People tend to practice the culture that they receive since from their eldest and it continuously shared by generation to the generation. The shared of culture is important for group, so that there are continuously keep and practice among the youngest.

          

        Other characteristics of culture are culture is learned, where cultural transmission or enculturation is the best way to describe culture is learned. The people acquire information about the culture by many ways. This is done by learning the language and other form of educational information of the society and learns from others members of groups. In society we can see that, members of groups are learn to understand and practice and adopted certain ideas, expectation and tradition by the elder generations of society. Parents are the first medium of culture expose to the youngest or children. No individual is born with a sense of his or her culture. He or she has to learn it.

         By looking at culture characteristic, automatically people can define what culture is is all about. By culture, an individual can be classified into one group that have similar patterns.

resources:
1) http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-is-culture.html

2) http://www.buzzle.com/articles/characteristics-of-culture.html