Cultural diversity: The Dead
When we hear the word "Dead", our brain make a relation with something wrong.
We are people from Chile, and here, the dead is something sad, bad, and sometimes we consider this a punishment.
But now, all your thoughts will change (maybe a little), because I will show you the Mexican culture, because, in my opinion, is the best way to show you something very different to our culture, and very interesting.
So, we are going to start with our first curiosity:
1.- Renacentist and Reunion: When someone of the family have just dead, for dead's family is somenthing to celebrate, because He/She will meet with all His/Her dead family in the heaven. They celebrate, because He/She now is in peace, and will never suffer again.
2.-Day of the Dead:
This is one of the most important celebrations in Mexico. This day starts in last days of october or in the first days of november.
Is the day when all "spirits of dead people are in live": It means that is the day
when live people is with dead people, but, live people have to give
something to their dead family, and there you have a list of things that
mexicans share with their lovely family:
-Cempasúchil flower:
-Copal:
->It a stone, and mexicans used this stone for "el altar de muertos".
->It has a symbolic means.
-Cross:
-> This cross means the travel to an other world, in this case is the heaven.
Summarizing,
deads means to mexicans something very important and beautiful, and
they celebrate this day because for they, it means "lucky", because you
go to a more beautiful life in the heaven, and you will not suffer again
in this world: The Earth.
Hobbes
thinks that we are people with self-steem, I mean, that when someone
dies, we cry for us, not for him, because we are who lost someone
important for us, but, we never think that (maybe, it depends of our
beliefs) this person is happy now, this person went to a best world, or
He/She scapes from this coonflict world.
Something
that not all people consider when miss someone: "Are we really alone?",
and this question is answered by Buda: "We are never alone, because all
people lost familys lost someone important for they, and the dead is
something that allways comes."
Are a
lot of beliefs about the dead, but this is the most different of us, I
wanted to show you something different, because I want that people
starts thinks about diversity, real diversity.
Here I share with you 4 links, the first one is about more information about Mexico, the second one is about other countries with other beliefs abput the dead, the third one has more information about "día de los muertos", and the last one is a documentary about this day in Mexico:
This documentary is very interesting, and show to us how chileans looks other cultures, in this case: Mexican culture.
Wow, Isabella! You did a really outstanding and fascinating post.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I like how you emphasize the important words with colours and sentences in bold, or making the letter bigger. It is a really good resource because it catch the attention of the reader. i never do that but I will try it.
Secondly, the topic it is very interesting, how cultures are so different, even in how they consider death. It has to be emphasized that more than the 80% of Mexican are catholics and that's why they think in the heaven after the death.
Thirdly, in a conversation with a close friend almost a year ago, we talked about people usually think in death as something far from our daily life, but actually, death is part of the life and it can arrive in any moment, therefore, if we see it as a bad thing it is goning to be more difficult face it.
Fourthly, I had never thought that we actually don't cry for the person who died; we cry for our pain and that's is kind of selfish.
Finally, the links were so interesting too, I really enjoyed the second one. It's incredible how people, all over the world, "celebrate" the death of the people they love.
Thanks for sharing that information (:
So many cultures, and so much true in this entry!
ReplyDeleteI learnt about 'El día de los muertos' in a scooby doo movie, and I thought it was really cool, and of course, interesting and fascinating, how deads are remembered.
For me, well the only close conection I lost because of death, was my dog Lassie (her real name xD) last year, I was really devastated.
Anyway, Mexico is the lead country in the 'death' thread, I really think we all should do something like this for our dead relatives or friends... heck, I do it for my dog
Amazing entry
Your post is very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think that the dead is a taboo topic in our lifes. After that I readed your post I searched videos on youtube about as the Mexican cuture sees the death and I found this video that supporting your post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsbr_Tkn08w .
Caught my attention "La Catrina" was created by Mexican artists like a metaphor for the high social class.. The name "Catrina" was created by Diego Rivera and represent the Death as a famele figure.
Check these links and discover the magic of the Catrina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkpv5o5Xf4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUs-aTiV-0