Thursday, November 24, 2011

A PREVIEW ON AFRICAN SUBCULTURES


African subcultures are quite an interesting topic to learn. Though it may be vast and understanding them maybe quite hard but for sure, learning them is interesting and fun. Furthermore, you will be amazed that every tribe has a different culture of its own.

Weddings
One common thing in all cultures including the African subcultures is their weddings. One of the most vital parts in our study of these subcultures is the wedding ceremony. This event not only encompasses religion but also the people spirituality. Furthermore, in weddings you can also see how strong the bond of their family and even the entire community.

Basically, in an African wedding, this symbolizes the gathering of both the families and the tribes of both the bride and groom. In fact, almost each family has its own tribe and, furthermore, there are upon thousands of tribes with distinct traditions and cultures living in Africa. Each of these tribes has their own method of celebrating a wedding ceremony and the best part is they can trace and tell you the origin of why they do it that way for hundreds and thousands of years.

Pre-arrange marriages are also rampant in the African culture. To add, it not even a surprise to hear in Africa that a girl, even before she is even born, is already engaged to someone.

African tribes are an ethnically diverse country. It is a nation that is composed of many different people, with different cultures and beliefs.Africa subcultures havemany languages and some are still being used and spoken today. Which is you would expect especially to a country with different cultures and that has experienced many invasions throughout history.

The population of Africa alone is about onebillion and these numbers share different cultures and traditions. As you can see, you can say thatAfrica is nations within a nation. Furthermore, African tribes are quite vast thus you can expect that they have different ideals among themselves. These tribes have a wide-ranging variety of religious ideals and values.  Paganism is also rampant in African subcultures and is known to be the very first beliefs and religion which focus on ancestor spirituality and worship.

The African subculturesare really quite vast and it would take a very long time to fully understand them but you will never be disappointed in what you will learn from their culture.

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