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Results: Where in The World WOuld You Rather Be-Most desirable place to live

Looks like the most desrable place for early 20-somethings is NEW YORK, with late 20-somethings rather opting for a more beachy MIAMI and 30-somethings choosing the more quiet but beautiful destination of South Africa!

Christmas Celebrations Across The World

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What's your typical christmas day like? I'll let you in on mine which, unlike the annual televised scenario of snow and snowmen, red stockings over warm fire places, eggnog and wool knitwear, comprises of a hot summers day enjoying fresh watermelon and ice cream...no great importance on presents (though they're always welcome), but there's always a big dose of family, pool side braais (barbecues) and an evening spent singing carols at church service! Guess where i'm from?? Somewhere deep in the South of Africa...i'll leave it at that.

Here's how other people celebrate:

AUSTRALIA
1.The hot temperatures of up to 38 degrees Celcius means lots of beaching, surfing and shopping,

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2. With a cultural mix of  heritages derived from England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Europe, Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Middle East, Vietnam, China, Japan, Thailand as well as North and South America christmas becomes a joyous amalgamation of all cultures!
3. Traditional dinners are replaced with family gatherings in back yards, picnics in parks, gardens and on the beach.
4. It's all about family...
5. And lastly, because of the possibilty of Santa suffering heat stroke down under, he's replaced by 'Swag Man' who wears a brown Akubra (those iconic outback wide-brimmed hats), a blue singlet and long baggy shorts. He spends all winter under Uluru with his merry dingoes (wild Australian dog) and then at Christmas time, he gets in his huge four-wheel drive and sets off through the red dust to deliver his presents.

BETHLEHEM

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1. As the place where Jesus was born, means christmas is a very humble and religious event where celebrations are focused on ritualistic church events.
2.  Christian homes in Bethlehem are marked by a cross painted over the door and each home displays a homemade manger scene.


CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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1. St. Nicholas is called Svaty Mikalas and is believed to climb to earth down from heaven on a golden rope along with his companions: an angel and a whip-carrying devil.
2.They enjoy the practice of cutting a branch from a cherry tree and putting it in water indoors to bloom. If the bloom opens in time for Christmas it is considered good luck, and also a sign that the winter may be short. The hope of early spring helps keep spirits up during the long dark winter.

INDIA
1. Christians in India decorate mango or banana trees at Christmas time.

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2. Churches are decorated with poinsettias and lit with candles for the Christmas Evening service.









MEXICO

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1. Much like every other celebration in this country they go big and loud! Flambouyant decorations, christmas stalls, plenty food, la familia and los amigos all around (disclaimer: i only took spanish for half a year before dropping out)!
2. The main Christmas celebration in Mexico is called las posadas, which refers to processions reenacting Joseph and Mary's search for a place to stay in Bethlehem. The processions begin nine days before Christmas because the original journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem took nine days. Friends and family members divide themselves into two groups - pilgrims and innkeepers and proceed with the full re-inactment.

ANGLOPHONE WORLD (UK, English Canada and America primarily)
Ah the selling TV christmas; snow, snowmen, warm fire places, decorated christmas trees, miseltoe, christmas carols, knitted reeindeer sweaters and red sown stockings!

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 Santa Clause/Father Christmas slides down the chimney carrying with him a great big bag filled with presents which he slides under the  christmas tree/ or into the hanging stockings after indulging himself in the little snacks layed in preparation of his arrival :)
A time for family, a time for shopping, and a time for food, food and more food (turkey, puddings, chocolates...etc)!!!

Is there a particularly special way you celebrate christmas???

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'Tats', 'Ink', 'Art', 'Work' and 'Pieces'

Different periods-different meanings

The ritual and practise of body tattoo-ing has transformed drastically (much as many other historic and traditional rituals) into a simplistic popular fashion statement. Human history records illustrate tattoos being used in many diverse cultures; namely as rites of passage, marks of status, rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures, marks of fertility, punishment, amulets, protection and as the marks of convicts.

Cook's arrival

SO, who brought on this fashionable practise to the British Isles? Well, British explorer James Cook was his name. He brought the practise back with him after an expedition to Tahiti in 1769. The Polynesians permanently tattooed themselves as protective and therapeutic symbols, but when the 'fashion' arrived in Europe it was adopted, primarily, by men in dangerous professions (gangsters and rebels-ooooh).


Fast forward to today and it's no surprise to see any girl or guy over the age of 18 with a tattoo inked across their backs, arms, wrists, thighs, ankles, necks or bottoms. It's well enough to assume you get a free tattoo with every purchase of skinny jeans....i must admit, i myself have got both; skinny jeans and tattoo.

I went in to my local Tat shop to do a little amateur filming and aside from capturing the shop's surroundings i found an 18 year old girl getting her first tattoo :). I also captured a little of the guy sitting next to her who looked like a right ink addict!

Black Reaction to Cinema Conduct

When you find yourself sitting in a cinema where there's a competitive amount of action and sound effects between those 'watching' the movie and the actual movie itself...you know ther gon'b sum black peeps up in thur, standard.

Don't blame us,  I swear it's in our genes (I'll explain)! And even though i get really annoyed when I'm sitting there watching a movie with a manic lady screaming at the screen, with popcorn flying everywhere around her as she targets at the film's antagonist...wait, who am i kidding?! That manic freak is me, I'm that annoying lady in the cinema...well at least last night at a Preston cinema i was. I never really realised it back at home (In Africa) amongst my fellow 'homeboys' (please excuse the cheesy American slang), with them I'd just blend in!

'Oh hell no, he did not just go there', these are the words i found myself saying in the epic scene in Twilight: Breaking Dawn when Jacob ***** ***** ** *** ****** *** .........(Starred out for the sake of those who haven't watched). Anyway the point is, well who was i talking to and why did i feel the need to comment, in a cinema, where the only lights on are pointing to the screen and the rest of the room is in darkness, clearly indicating a separation between where there SHOULD be action/sound/talk and where there SHOULDN'T!!!

Well here's the deal, I'm black, my roots stem from the African soils (Though science/history shows we all did, for the sake of the point I'm trying to make I'm speaking from the perspective of Post-Ape era here). It all boils down to understanding, meaning and the nature of communication taught amongst the African society. And yes, though it may be true that to some extent different cultures and races are gradually amalgamating into one unison popular way of life (especially in the 'first world'), the change definitely hasn't fully affected this largely inherent characteristic difference in communication between, well for the sake of simplicity in this writing, the black and white race.

Both storytellers and audience are involved in creating the sense of the story

Let's take away the cinemas, theatres, ipads, kindles and even books...and understand a form of communication that exists largely in the context of an integrated, communal oral performance. That is the background in which storytelling (and cinema) exists in African tradition. Without back and forth interaction (oral and physical) a story does not exist. Storytelling was and continues to be used as a way to teach, involve and excite the listener.

If you look at the example of hip hop (considering it as a black art form), there isn't a rapper out there who doesn't provide a platform that allows for the integration of the audience with his art...there's always a 'Can i get a Hip Hop Hip Hop' or a 'Wave your hands in the air, like you just don't curr' (feel free to adapt to modern day lingo). The point is it isn't worth the watch if you can't get involved in one way another....


'Throw your hands in the airya and wave dem like u juss dont careya'!

Anyway, this brings me back to cinema and why i find myself having a hard time maintaining my composure through action sequences, love scenes and even through the scenes in between. It's just not in me to sit and silently internalise what is to me a natural reaction to performed storytelling. Whether it be on screen, radio, on paper or on line my culture has ingrained in me to physically and orally react, while involving those around me. Screaming, squirming, popcorn throwing and posing hysteric rhetorical questions during a film are all a part of the cinema experience for me, if i had to sit motionless and quiet for a full on 120mins i honestly, without doubt, wouldn't be able to follow the film's narrative!

Where would you rather be in the World?

With the globalisation of the world's culture and capitalism there are just so many different options you could choose when deciding where you want to live and work. Where in the world would you rather be??
Fill out the survey below and find out what people, perhaps similar to you, would prefer:

The World in Future-Vision

Everyone's got their own personal views for the future.

Perfect Family:In reality the seas level will be up to their necks

Most people aspire to be at the top of the ladder in whatever career they've chosen to pursue, or have that perfect happy family living in the suburbs somehwere, or perhaps driving that big range rover and flying around the world from this world stage arena to the other...



But, in reality...there may not be a future to live, not in a couple decades time.

Atleast they're all walking the same direction

If you look at the statistics the future's probably something we should be trying to run away from rather than moving into. Over 7 BILLION people are recorded to be living in the world right now, in 20 years there'll be a predicted 9 Billion. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that everywhere you walk there'l be a person standing to your left and to your right, and with the amount of housing that will need to be developed you're likely to struggle finding a piece of untouched ground to walk on.

Reality...NOT Fiction

Just about every earthly resource is presently being exhausted on our planet...us humans are a contamination to what was once a sound environment; we live and breed like parasites, filling up the empty spaces, consuming endlessly only to churn out deadly waste, until eventually we'll die out in our own poison...




And, yea, sure we could try cut down on consumtion, 'dig up' more resources, explore new energy sources, go green and recycle the environment...but with a continued increase in population the only vision for the future...isn't one at all!

Below is what Preston City's Head of Environmental Health envisions of the future:

Environmental future by TinaGo

10 Misconceptions About Different Cultures.

1. Africans do not have lions roaming their ‘back yards’ (If they did they’d risk their lives every time they wanted to take a trip to the grocery shop, cinema, pub, gym or any other civilised activity they wanted to do).
2. People from India do not speak ‘Indian’ (Much the same as people from Antarctica don’t speak ‘Antarctican’, Chile – ‘Chilean’, or California – ‘Californian’)
3. Australians are not all ‘outback’ type people who love the thrill of the wild outdoors (Most Australians are hard-core city dwellers who fear the prospect of being harmed by some deadly animal if ever they braved the ‘outback’).
4. Not all Asian girls like giving massages with ‘happy endings’ ( The American film industry has just perpetuated this perception of them as fantasy, much in the same way they glamourised prostitution in the 1990s Pretty Woman –so if you dating a girl for this reason, you can change your mind now).
5. The word Eskimo is not synonymous with raw meat eaters, primitive hunter-gatherers, penguin killing, nomadic igloo dwellers (In fact, ‘Eskimo’ relates to those originating from the Arctic, some of the subarctic regions of Greenland, Alaska (U.S.), Canada, and far eastern Russia. Most of these people now live largely in settled communities, working for wages, using guns for hunting).
6. Not all Native Americans can be distinguished by their dark hair and brown/red skin (Actually some Native Americans have blonde or even red hair and fair skin. They are defined by their traditions and not by their appearance)
7. The staple food in Italy is not ‘Spaghetti Bolognaise’ (In fact, barely any restaurants in Italy actually serve it. Also one should acknowledge that pasta and meatballs are actually two different foods).
8. ‘Cinco de Mayo’ does not represent Mexico’s Independence day (They celebrate Independence Day on the 15th and 16th of September)
9. Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt was not considered physically beautiful (Shakespeare and all his believers were all misguided. If you look at the image of her on the nation’s coin you’ll note she had very masculine features, a big nose and thin lips. However, she was very intelligent and charming).
10. Britain is not a country (It’s the general term for Wales, Scotland and England collectively and The British Isles also includes Ireland. So calling someone from England ‘British’ is as specific as calling some from the Bahamas ‘North American).

Developed African Cities

Harare Zimbabwe

Cape Town, South Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

SunCIty, South Africa

Windhoek, Namibia

Cairo, Egypt