Quechua’s Community Beyond Time
- April 11, 2016 Friendly Borders Staff
Cusco – When people look back to the history of the Inca Empire, there is an interesting search for the connection of that bygone era to the present day practices and cultural influences in the Latin American community. With its stunning ...
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Buduma: The Warriors of Lake Chad
- March 28, 2016 Joy Marie Salgado
N’Djamena – Exploring the beauty of Africa through its colorful history, rich cultural influences, and ethnic communities is a memorable adventure for any individual. Travelers as well as locals need to know, however, that having a ...
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The Koryo Saram (Korean Kyrgyz) of Kyrgyzstan
- March 04, 2016 Friendly Borders
Bishkek – Kyrgyzstan has a rich cultural diversity, which includes more than 100 ethnicities. They differ in number, religion, language, culture, traditions, and customs. Nationalities such as Uzbeks, Russians, Dungans, Uyghurs, Tajiks, ...
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The Bugis People of South Sulawesi
- February 29, 2016 Friendly Borders
Jakarta – The Bugis or Buginese people make up two-thirds of the 9 million-plus population of South Sulawesi, an island in the east of Borneo in today’s Indonesia. The Bugis are the most dominant ethnic group in the region renowned as ...
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The Kubu
- January 31, 2016 Manny Bigornia, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Jakarta – Deep in the rainforests of central and southern Sumatra are its indigenous inhabitants, the nomadic Kubu. Amongst their own, they call themselves Suku Anak Dalam or Orang Rimba – “people of the forest” or “land ...
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Unique Rituals among Ethnic Groups
- January 04, 2016 Friendly Borders
beauty
noun beau•ty ˈbyü-tē : the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit
Manila – Appreciating beautiful things is part of human nature. ...
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Seediq
- December 14, 2015 Manny Bigornia, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Taiwan – Seediq (Sediq) is one of the many aboriginal groups of Taiwan. On April 23, 2008, the Taiwanese government officially recognized Seediq as the 14th indigenous tribal group in the country.
The Seediq are comprised of three ...
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Beyond Pacquiao and Boxing: Revisiting Filipino-Mexican Cultural Ties
- November 15, 2015 Kristoffer R. Esquejo
Manila – Whenever I see Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao fighting a Mexican boxer, I look at it in a historical context, as if I am witnessing a struggle between one of the Visayan warriors named by Spanish chroniclers as ...
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Chaoxianzhu – The Korean Chinese of China
- November 03, 2015 Friendly Borders
Hong Kong – Statistically, people of Korean origin in China or the Chaoxianzhu don’t even reach 1% of its 1.4 billion population. But the culture and identity of the Chaoxianzhu in China is definitely very much alive and blossoming.
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The Minangkabau of West Sumatera
- June 30, 2012 Sutria Rahayu, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatera
Padang – The Minangkabau is the largest matrilineal ethnic group in the world, but its members are predominantly Islamic, which is a patriarchal religion. These two contrasting systems – matrilineal and patrilineal – are thus the ...
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