Over the past few years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to travel to Swaziland, South Africa. ... Two of the activities that are big in Africa are singing and dancing. As soon as children start school, they are taught different praise songs and dances, much like Vacation Bible School. ... Through this experience of traveling to Africa and seeing how different their culture is from mine, I have learned to appreciate the little things in life. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When it comes to cuisine, the media shows that African Americans only eat soul food. ... The Media describes African American to lack good social skills. African Americans are shown to be disrespectful. ... Religion is shown to be a big deal to African Americans. ... When describing how we listen to gospel music, the media insist that it is up to beat and something to catch the holy ghost to and that when a gospel song comes on we overly clap our ends and stomp our feet before we catch the spirit and start overly dancing all over the place. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While I was eating, there was a sudden rush and roaring to the side of the building where they were doing a Mexican folk dance and that caught my eye. ... How Mexican has a Folk dance, my country has a Bhangra dance and how Arabians have their Dabke dance. After seeing the amazing dance I marched my way down to the bazaars to see what type of accessories other countries have. ... Henna usually exists in Africa, Middle East and Asian countries. ... I went my way on down to the cultural performances and sat through many cultural dances. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When the griot tells the history of a certain family, they use instruments, they sing and dance. ... Writing traditions do consist in ancient history in Africa, but most Africans prefer the traditions of African storytelling and oral history. African storytelling is one of the oldest way of telling a civilizations history, also called "African orature" which "is orally composed and transmitted, and often created to be verbally and communally performed as an integral part of dance and music." (www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afstory.htm) Historians can use African storytelling to recon...

• Word Count: 1350
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Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primiti...

• Word Count: 3399
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• Has Bibliography
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Lastly, you have the younger sister, who is a beautiful teenager, but whose life revolves around dating, the mall, talking on the telephone and going to school dances. ... Although we did have shows which also portrayed African- American families, these families still had the same structure as the above, the only difference was that they were not Caucasian. ...

• Word Count: 2756
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School