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