What is carnival: origins of the world’s biggest party
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Carnival started as a pagan festival in ancient Egypt and has grown to become one of the largest celebrations in the world. Today more than 50 countries celebrate the tradition, but where did the party start?
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From samba blocos in Brazil to masked balls in Italy, Carnival is a truly global phenomenon, celebrated in over 50 countries around the world.
Carnival originated as a pagan festival in ancient Egypt, to usher out winter and celebrate the beginning of spring. When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, the Ancient Greeks adopted the festival.
The Romans assimilated the festival from the Greeks, and it was later overlaid with Christian meaning to become the festival of “Carne Vale”
The word, “carne” means “meat” in Latin and “vale”, means “farewell”.
In the Catholic calendar “carne vale” - farewell to meat, is a feast before the fast of Lent. In 18th century Italy, people preparing for Lent would throw indulgent fancy-dress parties and gorge before the fast.
As Christianity spread throughout Europe, so too did the celebration of carnival. Colonisation exported it across the world.
Portuguese colonists took Lent to the shores of Brazil, where they had also taken an estimated 4 million African slaves. Over time European rituals fused with African ones, to create Brazil’s world famous carnival.
The flamboyant street parties are a celebration of Brazil’s mixed heritage. And it’s big business. In 2016 the city of Rio alone welcomed 1.1 million tourists during carnival, contributing around $900 million to the city’s economy.
On the Caribbean island of Trinidad, the festival of Lent was introduced by French colonists. Slaves, excluded from these celebrations, created their own parties to the soundtrack of Calypso music, which mocked the French. This is now an integral part of Trinidad’s carnival.
In India carnival is only celebrated in the southern state of Goa, where Portuguese colonists ruled for over four centuries.
Parades occur throughout the state with bands, dances, and floats.
Carnival is known as Mardi Gras in the American city of New Orleans and contributes over 2% to the city’s GDP.
Carnival is not just a party in the sun. Quebec holds the third biggest carnival celebration in the world.
From humble beginnings carnival has become a truly global celebration with millions of revelers all over the world contributing billions of dollars to the party
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Brazil's carnival was made with the mixture of rhythms and dances from many countries, and that includes Brazil itself. But if there is something that was created in Brazil itself, this is the parade of "fancy cars" (Carros Alegóricos, in Portuguese). This was created in Brazil and today many countries around the world "copy" it from Brazil.
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Also interesting to remember that since the seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere, carnival in Brazil also developed to merge with something like a harvest celebration, so it change quite a lot...
The video says that Brazilian Carnaval is a mix of Portuguese and Africans... as a Brazilian and a black woman I must say that Portugal only contributed with the Christian calendar ALL THE REST: the rhythm, the dance, came from Africa... and later on the parades with the African decedents!!! And let's not forget that in the beginning of Carnaval in Brazil black people were persecuted and arrested... Now it's a big party, but in the past it used to be a very marginalized party!!!
Same goes for feijoada, now it's our national food, but it used to be slave food, made from the rest of meat that the slave owners didn't want to eat!!!
Beth_9 Beth_9 yeah Brazilian culture is black culture samba is the food is the batucada and some of the words within Portuguese(Brazilian) itself
It started in Egypt. Egypt is in Africa.
Not really, part of the rhythm is of European descent, and also native descent, and feijoada came from Portugal, it's a myth that came from slaves
In Brazil , African were allowed to participate to Carnivals only since the 70's...
While Brazilian Carnivals exist for nearly 500 years.
So no, African barely contributed to Carnivals...
Too many mistakes in this video:
Historically there's no evidence with the Egyptian festivity. And even though Greece and Rome had two different festivities that some people associate with the carnival, yet there's no real ressemblance nor direct link.
Second mistake of this video is the Latin Carne - Vale. but in Latin, it's Carne -Levare. ( Levare = to remove )
And this linguistic mistake show how the economist cannot be trusted, at least with this subject.
And third, the video seems to mean that Carnival started in 18th century Italy...but Carnivals started during the medieval period. In Venise( Italy) it started during the 11th century, Nice ( France) and Binche ( Belgium ) started during the 13th century ... And they have nothing to do with Egypt in whatever ways.
It's a 3 minute video and a lot of people are complaining about why it doesn't mention the celebrations in this and that country etc.
Philippines should be in here too.
They celebrated Sinulog and Ati-Atihan Festivals. Widely celebrated in the country.
Every catholic, or catholic influenced country celebrates carnival
Phillipes is the 3rd most Catholic country in the World (after Mexico and Brazil) so of course they will celebrate Catholic Carnival...what they DO NOT and shouldn't celebrate is any pagan festival! Do NOT believe the Economist propagandists lies.
but it is not a preparation of lent. it is a celebration of arrival of Christianity
@@marcelo497 not every christian country only few
@@aganbraganca4156 I said specificaly catholic
Brazil is well knowed for best carnival in the world, mixing Portuguese, indigenous and African culture and music. 🇧🇷
Wrong T&T carnival is known for that 🇹🇹
@Sasha_34 🇹🇹 🇧🇷 is the most celebrated carnival in the world and the one people prefer the most. 🇹🇹 is the best in the Caribbean.
You’re definitely wrong on that. It would forever be Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
@@FuShengAlex *in the world
Biggest tallest and huge groups with special purposes 💕 in Brazil. But people on the street can't party like in smaller towns. I'm going to look for the Trinidad party 🎉
you missed all african portuguese speaking countries in your map. how can you miss that?
they missed a lot of stuff! dont worry!
@@TheTillmanSneakerReview bruh
Viva carnaval 🎊🎉🕺🏼💃🏻🎊🎉🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🎇🎊🎉
The biggest exporter of Carnival right now is Trinidad. It has created satellite Trini Carnivals (which other Caribbean islands have also gravitated to as well) in Nottinghill UK, Berlin Germany, Tokyo Japan, Toronto Canada, Hollywood, California, Miami and New York.
I must let you know that other islands had their own carnival celebrations independent of Trinidad. Of course now many are modelled on the Trinidadian and Brazilian carnivals. Personally I think carnival is ungodly.
am no if you check the history u will see the model is based of ah trinidad carnival. barbados crop over was model after trinidad carnival . antigua carnival also and many others!!! know the history
add JAMAICA. Jamaica carnival feels like a 1st world carnival.. it smells like sponsors and airplane tickets. its like Caribana
I PERSONALLY DONT LIKE instagram/snapchat carnivals. all the carnivals you listed above is under the POSH title
Carnival in Dominica #1 in my book. Barranquilla's Carnival in Colombia #2 Bahamas #3 } "easy no fuss "vibes
But not the best. That's Brazil
Thank you, I needed somebody in the comments to point it out.
usa also has carnivals they are like traveling fairs with lots of food , dancing and games. also mediaeval people in some places had carnivals with costume contests.
So glad their included Trinidad and tobago 🇹🇹
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In Bangladesh we don't have carnival but we have mela which is similar to carnival. Toys shop, sweet and snacks shop, street food , different type of rides ,puppet show, Circus, magic show, carnival games and lot's fun. Their are different Melas in different time of year across country. Most famous are Baishakh mela. Also happened in spring time or end of spring. Bengali new year time.
Is there a Mela at the new moon in February?
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Thing you mean shame bud
That actual beat of samba sounds like it has African influence. Correct me if I'm wrong. A samba se escouta como si tivesse influência da África. Correta-me se eu tô errado. (Sorry for my bad Portuguese. Still learning)
If u want to understand about samba so u need to read about Tia Ciata. She's the Mother of samba.
Sim! O Carnaval tem influência da dança africana, como também o toque brasileiro, onde se expandiu.
Samba comes from Semba, a different but really similar kind of celebration and music in Angola
There is a Samba location, name of town or district in Africa. In Brazil I think samba is like another name for dance. I learned a ballroom Samba only to be told by others it's not Samba, but British Ballroom samba and quite different... etc. Samba is a rhythm also, at least according to Wiki
It probably couldn't be more African if it tried, but, then, what music doesn't have African beats?
Classical maybe? Techno?
Paraguay does celebrate Carnaval! The city of Encarnacion is known to host large Carnaval festivals.
Latvia should also be included among this list. Actually we have traditions when the whole winter are the season when to go masking and do strange strings going from home to home. Masked groups could enter homes anytime in winter celebrations, even at night. Usually such events included dancing, music, feast and various other rituals and spontaneous events and happenings. In modern days this tradition is somewhat unpopular, but also gaining popularity in recent years to.
This is similar to New Foundland in Canada that has a Mummers' tradition of doing this, in disguises also.
My friend is Brazillian and tells me that carnival comes from Africa.
they lying
Well technically he is correct but it's North Africa.
Yeah, he's right in the fact that it originated in Egypt...
@@stayout9 there is no evidence that it started in Egypt or Rome those were separate festivals carnival started in Italy during the 13 century as a festival before lent a week long festival that ends with ash Wednesday. its a medieval European holiday that was exported during colonization and has mixed with amerindian African and Indian cultures.
did you just not here that the rome adopted the act of carnival from natives in the beginning of the video
Didn't had idea that it is celebrated in Goa too.
Yes the French introduces carnival to Trinidad 🇹🇹 but they came from Grenada 🇬🇩 together with ex African/Grenadian slaves . Carnival was been celebrated first in Grenada afterward it was introduced to Trinidad by the French and Grenadians #facts..
Not just Grenadians, Martinique,Dominica, Guadeloupe, St Lucia.
St. Vincent and throughout the Caribbean
@@lonalxaia usa also has carnivals they are like traveling fairs with lots of food , dancing and games. i also saw another video that said that there where carnivals in the middle ages similar to masquerades or the feast of fools festival in France where people dressed up in costumes, rich and poor swapped places , civilians where allowed to insult the church openly, the ugliest person in town could be treated like a king for a day and everyone caused caos for the whole day once a year
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The “Caretos de Podence” and The “Caretos de Lazarim” the oldest carnaval with origin in pre céltico and celtics from Ibéric península the actual north of Portugal, went with portugueses to Brasil, Angola, Cabo Verde, Timor and other portuguese colonies and influentes and changed by other cultures, and the diferent relacion with south hemisféry. At the moment, mundial patrimony by UNESCO.
Trinidadian Carnival is the best done talk
Overpriced and overrated.
FuShengAlex lies
@@anesehiakelly6696 truth...lol.
Doesnt live up to the hype. Same tired crowd and vibe as Caribana, labor day and Miami. Only much hotter weather and more pricey.
Delusional
Dem Brazilians go claim it tho *steupz* 🙄
you could have just said its the carnival in that one movie with that blue bird lol
Rio 🤣🤣🤣 yeah that came to mind as well lol
-Any Brazilian here? No? Okay..-
Tamo aqui marcando presença.
Are you Brazilian? No? Okay..
Esses gringos viajam kkk
Claro que tem, somos o Júlio de todo mundo odeia o cris na versão pais....sempre estaremos lá
@@Megaxtk01 então mano
For the Brazilian's President carnaval is a golden shower.
Pobre diablo..
Love Brazil
i love how u animated the hieroglyphs. like.
Too many mistakes in this video:
Historically there's no evidence with the Egyptian. And Greece and Rome had two different festivities that some people associate with the carnival, but there's no real ressemblance either.
Second mistake of this video is the Latin Carne - Vale Sorry the economist, but in Latin, it's Carne - Levare. ( Levare = to remove )
And third, the video seems to mean that Carnival started in 18th century Italy...but Carnivals started during the medieval period. In Venise( Italy) it started during the 11th century, Nice ( France) and Binche ( Belgium ) started during the 13th century ... but indeed, most actual Carnavals were created during the 18th century.
so carnivals started in medieval period Europe. why? GIVE ME THE CULTURAL RECEIPT of why? i wanna see blueprints
please and thanks. 😒
a small note: THE main reason you are aware of Carnivals in the 18th century is because non-Europeans move their traditional carnivals to coincide with Europeans Christian holiday. because they didnt have time off to do it on the traditional dates.
you can CLEARLY SEE the content of these carnivals are not European by any strength of the imagination; 𝓈𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝒸𝓊𝓁𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 of carnival already.🤷
@@cinnamonstar808 explain why did the Venice carnival start in the 13th century stop your revisionist history its a christian holiday that started in medieval Europe. its name is literally without meat. I know you have no culture so you have to steal ours like the myth that ancient Egypt was black when it was middle eastern. ancient Egyptians had 2% sub saharan DNA the Egyptians were olive to brown in skin tone not black.
The Tillman Sneaker Review DNA don’t lie the Sahara desert isolated the Egyptians that’s why they don’t speak Bantu languages. Nubians conquered Egypt during the Middle Kingdom that’s where you’re lies without context make it seems like the Pharaohs were black when in reality those were conquerors who ruled Egypt for 200 years. Egyptians ranged from pale to light brown like a modern day Arab. In fact Modern day Egyptians have more subsaharan dna than their relatives. The Muslim invasions injected almost zero middle eastern DNA into the Egyptian genome. Modern day Egyptians are the descendants of ancient Egyptians and had the same complexion as their forefathers. Sub Saharan Africans had Nubia Mali Ghana and Benin empires to take pride in. Stop appropriating history and embrace and discover your own great empires.
How about the Roman Saturnalia? Also in Rome every end of year there was a period of some days in which there was general celebration and many social rules were relaxed, even slaves were allowed to take part, this sounds similar to a Carnival celebration.
@@truth-uncensored2426 Only to an ignoramus who doesn't know what Carnival or Saturnalia means and is about!
How come eastern Europe didn't pick up on this celebration as well even though it seems all the other areas around it did?
It was killed off by the Protestants and then the Socialists during the Cold War era.
colonisation
Because its a catholic tradition really
Im in french AND i like carnaval hère :3
Im aswell Portugal lol
Thank you Dominican Republic
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I'm watching Zimbabwe highlighted on the map and am wondering how factual is this video🧐🧐🤔🤔
Wonder why it isn't big in Britain. I'm German and I miss it.
It is big in Britain. We celebrate Notting Hill Carnival here in London every august lol
💀 caribbean exported carnival 😭😭😂@@MRAAng-on2jg
@@MRAAng-on2jgCarnival is usually held just before lent. Britain doesn't have that history. Yes they have one but in Catholic Caribbean islands that is the proper Carnival.
You are totally wrong. Carnival started from west Africa. The Africa slaves took it to Brazil.
They have definitely shared what they learned and I love it.
What about Canavals of Colombia
Thank you will to power!
If you're here for school raise your hand
its OK LEARN something!
theloser tells a story for sure!
Actually, what is happening to the subtitles?
I love carnaval :D
TORONTO CANADA GO CARIBANAAAA!!!
How do they do this party in Toronto? I just learned about Quebec and Bonhomme this year.
@@wendysinclair-smith984It's just OK.
Nice but... why isn't Paraguay green as well? People do celebrate carnaval there...
Yes, but the video doesn't explain why Carnival is not celebrated in Britain. Christianity had spread there too, and the infographic led to believe GB was part of the "carnem levare" festival originated in early Christianity
Carnival in Britain is Pancake day/Shrove Tuesday
Kevin O'Brien Thanks for your reply. I was however referring more to the lack of visible celebration (fancy dressing, parties, special cakes/food etc.) occurring in Britain, compared to, not so much the excesses and flamboyance of Brazil or Trinidad, but other European countries or cities where Carnival is very much an event on the calendar (Venice, Nice, Cologne, to name a few). In over 20 years I've lived in London the only 'Carnival' I've ever witnessed was the Notting Hill one in late August. On Shrove Tuesday, nothing much happened :)
Uno u answered that london has one of the buggest carnivals in the world right? Notting Hill? You know the one where over an 1/8th of london then up (around 1.1 million people)? Forget about that one that comes EVERY YEAR CONSECUTIVELY? What exactly is ur definition of a carnival?
Paola T we have 100 Carnivals in GB
Yes it is. Nottinghill Carnival....
Thank you Portugal
The video says that Brazilian Carnaval is a mix of Portuguese and Africans... as a Brazilian and a black woman I must say that Portugal only contributed with the Christian calendar ALL THE REST: the rhythm, the dance, came from Africa... and later on the parades with the African decedents!!! And let's not forget that in the beginning of Carnaval in Brazil black people were persecuted and arrested... Now it's a big party, but in the past it used to be a very marginalized party!!!
Same goes for feijoada, now it's our national food, but it used to be slave food, made from the rest of meat that the slave owners didn't want to eat!!!
Feijoada nunca foi comida de escravo, isso é lenda. A explicação é bem simples: O prato tinha carne de porco e escravo não comia carne, mesmo as partes que, supostamente, os donos dos escravos não comiam. Essas partes, hoje negligenciadas em nossa culinária, faziam e ainda faz parte de vários pratos encontrados na Península Ibérica e na Alemanha, portanto não podemos dizer que eram restos. Além disso, a nossa feijoada, é uma adaptação de vários guisados, e ela também veio de Portugal.
Não temos que agradecer nada a Portugal, pelo contrário. Portugal tem uma dívida com o Brazil muito maior do que muitos imagina.
@@marcelosants1208 Vdd, vieram para explorar e não para colonizar.
Beth_9 Beth_9 feijoada was never a African food is a mix of Portuguese and French food dumb ass bitch
who else here for school
its OK to learn something! dont you think so?
Egypt 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬 👍👏 - who'd have guessed!?
What about Carnaval de Barranquilla in Colombia? The worlds second largest Carnaval and absolut one of the best!! 🇨🇴
And Cuba which also celebrates folkloric dance which is not based on consumerism but on historical culture. Then there is Bahia where the people celebrate their roots ....they were the African people who took the samba to Rio. It was in fact Bahia that create the Roda de Samba with the dance steps that the Carioca use in Carnival. I research Carnival and it’s folkloric roots in African and Indigenous cultures. This is far too simplistic.
Have we forgotten the Rhineland where the “carre navalis” > carnaval was started by the Romans to celebrate the spring thaw. Carts shaped like boats were paraded through the streets and Bacchus ruled.
Thanks
In New Orleans where they celebrate Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday) and they have parade organizations called Krewes. One such Krewe is the Krewe of Chewbacchus... 😂 yes, a combo of Bacchus and Star Wars 💖
Carnival originated as a pagan festival in ancient Egypt, to usher out winter and celebrate the beginning of spring. When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, the Ancient Greeks adopted the festival. The word, “carne” means “meat” in Latin and “vale”, means “farewell”.
Carnival was firstly introduced as a pagan festival in Ancient Egypt, to usher out winter and celebrate the beginning of spring. It was called Sham El-Nessim
@@TheGRANCRU The Economist is Atheist Marxist propaganda that tries to portray Catholicism as pagan and backward/ superstition. Africans/ Blacks want to claim their civilisation had an influence on Europe. In fact Carnival has NOTHING AT ALL in common with Sham El-Nessim nor any festival of ancient Greece or Rome or pagans. Carnival is a religious festival that is the last chance to party and consume all the meat and alcohol that will be forbidden during the following 40 days period of penitence, fasting and charity that follows. It has NOTHING to do with celebrating spring (Easter would be more in common though again the Catholic celebration is about the Resurrection of Christ) and none of the pagan festivals were undertaken to consume perishables because of a prolonged fast!
German carnival is celebrated on the entyrer country
Mardi gras contributes 2% of the US Gdp !! Whoa. That is huge !!
Carbon it's about only New Orleans GDP
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Are you kidding me? Not even a single mention of Germany? Cologne and another cities celebrate with Paradies, costumes and traditions jist as big as Rio. We even call it the 5th season, since we already start celebrating in November.
Thank you meats!
The etymology has since been widely disputed
OI MAN CARNIVAL COME FROM TRINIDAD YA BRITISH PERSON DO TRY TO COVA IT UP
Awesome 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Here because of Enhypen 🤚
same
@@sheikhshopnil7289 AYYEE👊👊
pretty sure Australia has mardi gras
im here for Spanish class bruh
same bruh
@@eddiecastaneda598 bet
You got the origin of carnival completely wrong! Please do better research.
Where is it from?
@@Cxnvict trinidad
Ironically, Christianity is the biggest spread of pagan costumes
That's one history there are others
The beginning Egypt
NOT a single word about the 5th season in the German Rhine valley.... Oh dear!
Apparently 20 people don't like to party
I'm Brazilian and I absolutely hate carnival!!!!
El carnival! 🇪🇸
It was called Sham El-Nessim not carnival
Uh oh, so much misinformation in this video 😬
I don't see japan marked
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Quem veio pela aula do cultura inglesa kkkk?
Eu kkkkkj
You colored all the Russian Federation but Kaliningrad Oblast!
carnival in the city
Carnival🤟🤟🤘🤘🤘💯💯
Its all catholic fun until the protestant and orthodox guy comes to the door
Who else is watching? Hit like so i can watch ot again 😁
So they included India, but not Aruba. 🙄
hello yems and welcome to torture land!
hi yems
So its a pre lent party? Lolllll
It's mixed in with that marker of celebrations. Incidentally it's based on the lunar calendar so where did that come from. 😉 I'm going to review the lunar festivals for this time of year. I know that Passover is included in this as well. I always seem to find these parties are just seasonal celebrations with local flavor and traditions. It's so cool because it's so intertwined
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Carnival turned in business in Brazil, the real party ia dead
Stop lying.
You have good reason to revive it now
That is not true. Carnival traditions are very much alive in Rio.
Yes, indeed.
Man obligado a verlo like si te han obligao
No thanks to your fucking corporations. I know how much you adore those, the economist.
While understandable that you can't cover EVERY country that celebrates carnival, it is unfortunate that you omitted a focus on Carnaval in Bolivia, arguably the most unique and amazing celebrations of this event. The incredible combination of folkloric pageantry and historical context is truly extraordinary. UNESCO heritage of humanity proclaimed. Check it out...
No entiendo nada
Edit: troll
Carnival in Brazil it’s nothing about Portugal.
Cute. But hunny Trinidad invented it 💯🇹🇹
thank you a needed sombody to point it out
Go take some history classes girl shut up
No they didn't. Watch this video
Like si vienes por la profesora carolina xd :v
Mr.Pikachu Samuel que pex
This is homework
This is not the truth
@@MrAmhara STFU!
bruh
Everything in this video is completely and utterly wrong kappa lol
carnival is older THAN EGYPT. its also not pagan
PAGAN: "a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions". in that time period that was the main faith of the planet
YEAH that original faith was in most lands hence Carnival is everywhere. that is the faith that made gold valuable after-all.
😑Modern people think they are 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽..when its their ancestors who did all the heavy lifting.
like you cut those roads
carnival started in Venice during the 13 century after war victory to celebrate the start of lent and new beginnings in the catholic liturgical year.. the Venice festival is the oldest on earth. then it was exported by europeans with their creole descendants around the world.
@@covfefe1787 I'm going to look up Bacchanalia and Saturnalia just to see if those parties had an influence on the people of that area. I'm aware that some of the traditions of those parties have made it into today's society so maybe previous partyers learned from people who taught them. Have you ever wondered why the dates for this partying change every year? It's based on a lunar cycle. I think it's amazing that people have figured out the moon cycles and the solstice and equinox and have known these markers for so very long. I love studying about festivals based on the seasons. All the different meanings people come up with to create a back story. They are wonderful examples of humanity's creativity. And those costumes are fabulous and different everywhere.
@@wendysinclair-smith984 Easter is never on the same date each year either. Carnival always ends the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and starts 4 Sundays before Ash Wednesday. Carnival is solely a Christian European holiday and Catholic. the festive season turned into the summer carnival in the U.S and in the Caribbean and Brazil acquired African influences from different African cultures. Carnival is not African in any sense. it’s only influenced by it in places where Africans were enslaved. in Europe Carnival exists in its pure traditional form and each country has developed its own cultural twists and carnival festivities differ from region to region across western and central Europe.
Zimbabwe celebrates Carnival? I think not!
Don't start either. Carnival is demonic!
I'm watching us highlighted on the map and am wondering how factual is this video🧐🧐🤔🤔
Is there any celebration for early spring? or late winter? or mid winter? Just asking. Am interested in ways people celebrate together: the traditions, the themes. Thanks
We Hindus are celebrating before Ur existence...
Keh SHIVA Hindus are descendants of black people... black people were original inhabitants on earth, in general. Science.
In essence, you are black.
Where do you think your customs came from? They’re passed down from generations and slightly changed as a result..... You certainly didn’t make them up. Such an ignorant and misinformed comment.
- sincerely, an educated mixed south Asian and Jamaican.
@@QBenjaminOfficial no one cares about black n white, here it's about culture.. we r celebrating this since years, n oldest religion in world is sanatan dharma.. thankyou friend... Love from india, now u better enjoy carnival dn try to be racist even Europeans had migrated to india... First read history of india..
it started as a Christian holiday in Venice the oldest festival on earth the europeans brought it everywhere else.
How do you celebrate this time of year? Do you use the lunar cycle as well? What is your celebration back story and what are some of the symbols used and traditions enacted? I love hearing about how people express their perspectives of life. You'd be amazed at how many different ways this time of the year is celebrated and how many similar threads tie them all together.
You are partially true but Christians are Not Roman Catholic! The True Gospel of Jesus Christ is by grace through faith alone.
Catholics ARE Christian though.
Fuck out of here!
@@nariko47 Protestants are stupid. Catholics predate them. The protestants lack respect. Jesus was Black!!!
Oh shut up. Such intolerance is so out of date. Respect people’s beliefs man.
Truth is never out of date. Jeremy, you are right! The Inquisitions were about hunting down the Christians, as the Catholics would call them. Now the Catholics call themselves Christian. Truth has always been on trial.
Boring British...
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