The Chinese New Year Celebration Attended by Kanika

Customary celebratory events typically are prime examples of modern expression of various cultures of the world. This is due to the fact that these events are one of the ways in which a group attempts to explicitly illustrate its own culture through a variety of means. By doing this, a group, whether it is a major or small folk group, reveals its esoteric meanings and perceptions. Kanika’s experience of attending a Chinese New Year celebration is quite an interesting case study in that it was intended to express both traditional Chinese society as well as a more cosmopolitan modern culture. In essence, one of the intentions of the performances was to illustrate how Chinese culture relates to others of the world, and how this sort of interaction has caused a sort of broadening of what many Chinese people perceive to be part of their own culture. This means that both the cultural past and present are deemed of great importance by the group due to the fact that they allow them to feel a as though they have a unique past, but the modern composition exists due to how they are now intertwined with other peoples and cultures of the world.

http://kanikasblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/chinese-new-year.html

This was my second peer review assignment.