Posts for 'Growingup Rituals' Category

One of the most important events of the year is the organization and celebration of the Asian Heritage Month in April. In 1978, Congress proclaimed the month of May as the Asian/Pacific Heritage Month to honor the contributions of Asian Americans to the United States history and culture.

May was chosen because it marks the anniversary of both the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to America in 1843, and the completion of the Golden Spike in 1869, which highlighted the contributions of Chinese Americans in building this country's transcontinental railroad.

Due to conflict with the academic calendar at Wright State University, which is on a quarter system, the Asian Heritage Month is observed a month prior to its national designation in May. Lectures, exhibitions, and film series reflective of the Asian American experience are offered on campus during the month of April.

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Bangladesh is a country where colourful fairs and festivals. In our Bangladesh the spring season stays for two months [Falgun and Chaitra]. A colorful festival held to welcome Bashanto. Attired in reddish-yellow saris with red border and hairs decorated with flowers, young women and girls.

As well as young men and boys in traditional pajama and punjabi, carrying flowers, took part in the colorful march. A good number of kids also got their attractive faces painted with different motifs including birds, national flag, butterflies etc. Pahela Falgun is celebrated on February 13. It is called the ‘Rituraj Bashonto’.

The love of art has brought together 400 artistes from all over the country to the steel city. Exponents from various fields have come here for the 26th All India Multilingual Drama, Dance and Music Festival that began last evening.

About 11 states are participating in the cultural event organised by Amateur Artistes’ Association of Jamshedpur (AAAJ). “The event is not only a plethora of art forms, it also provides a platform to bring all the talents together on a single stage.

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When David Fandila was a little boy growing up in Granada, Spain, he would pretend his mother’s dish towels were capes to flap before imaginary bulls. By the time he was a young man the homely props had been exchanged for squares of crimson and magenta: the parakeet hues of the professional bullfighter. For his mother, however, the memory of those childish games may not be entirely fond.Yet Mrs. Fandila’s furrowed anxiety is as vital to the success of “The Matador” as her son’s surging ambition. Her ambivalence is a counterweight to this documentary’s musky aura of male bravado,

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  When a child is 6 years of age as far as I think he/she is a child but not that much of a child that he/she cannot grasp what is taught to him/her by her/his parent. Basically the growing up ritual is to groom the child and one element in it is to stand up and walk up to the elder when he/she enters the room.

As Kevin Slattery and his Hazelwood East High School classmates performed Saturday in the crowded lobby of the Gateway Arch, he hoped the program would be as meaningful for the audience as it had been for him.

Slattery, a senior, had just finished delivering an excerpt from "Trying to Find Chinatown," a play by David Henry Hwang.

It was part of a program in which he and about 150 other students performed skits, readings and music from different cultures."It was a really great experience to do works from other cultures, specifically Asian-American writers," Slattery said. "It's interesting to see the different takes they have on their identity and culture, which is a lot of what this is about."

Such programs have become even more important in this era of globalization, he said.

"We can see . . . how cultures are dying out, but the good thing about it is that we're getting together," Slattery said. "This was a good way to expose others to other cultures."

That's one of the lessons coming out of the two-hour "Playing Race: Globalization and the Arts" performance by the Hazelwood East students.

"We call it multiculturalism with an edge," said Eric Shieh, a music teacher at the school and the organizer of the event.

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  To tell the child the importance of hard work and how it pays in the end is also a part of growing up rituals as far as I think because its from childhood that a child should know how to work hard and excel in his/her work in school and in other institutions later on a procrastinating child can never get success in his studies and another thing hard work always pays in a greater way you can never imagine.

If we talk about rituals there are so many growing up rituals and one of them is never to cheat in anything with anyone, because once you start you can never stop.

 In bringing up a child a mother should take care in teaching the child never to steal anything from anyone or anywhere again no matter what because stealing is bad and against the law if today a child is not stopped from stealing away tomorrow he/she can become a habitual thief.

  While growing up in ones house the major growing up ritual given by a mother is never to lie ever no matter happens because this is the only way the child will learn to be responsible next time and not repeat the mistake done once. Being honest is a sign of a good human being and good up bringing.