The movie we watched in class brought up a lot of different cultures and interesting things about them. While watching the video I saw a lot of different people wearing masks out of wood. Some of the masks reminded me of what maybe an African tribe would be wearing during a celebration, and the other masks were just of other faces. I just thought out of the box and came up that puppets actually brought the United States of America Halloween. I thought that since all the masks were used people picked up on it and started to derive a holiday from masks from other countries used in puppet shows.
Another part that I found interesting in the movie we watched was the puppet parades, and the place where puppet parades are most famous to me is in China. You always see the all the people out in the street watching the big puppet dragon in the street weaving from side to side of the street. Puppets derive from a lot of culture’s celebrations and traditions. The people of China take a lot of pride in what they do during parades of there culture. So, from China we as Americans picked up the idea of the puppet parade, along with the puppet dragon. It is used in America just as it would be in China for our American traditions and celebrations.
Gymnastics is a crazy sport, and a lot of Americans participate in the sport but do they know where it comes from? In the video it showed Romanian people doing gymnastics during a puppet piece put on this huge stage. They were on this huge jungle gym deal doing different acts of gymnastics. The Romanians take a lot of pride in their home sport and love doing it and sharing it all around the world. I bet they are proud, because such many more countries are participating in the sport and are encouraged to compete in events. It is just funny that gymnastics is such a big hit in America because it originated over seas and it has come across the ocean to explode in America.
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