Latin American Culture Essay

Culture is based on the knowledge as well as the behavior of a particular group of people, defined through many different aspects such as: religion, cuisine, socials habits, music and last but not least through dance. Most of the countries nowadays had a large variety of nationalities within their population, the culture inside the country is influences by all the nationalities that form that country, therefore as the number of nationalities grows, so does the culture. The culture we are raised with will eventually be changed over the years and will be influenced in many ways. Culture has become very important in our current world as is made up of so many different societies. On the other hand the world we are living in today is full of conflicts due to high number of cultures and religions in one place. Dance put its imprint on …show more content…
In order to fully understand a culture you need to look very closely into their traditions, one of them being their dances, because they have been present since the beginning of the human race. Dances are also linked very closely to religion as well as beliefs, an example being that dances from Latin America are well known for being intimate and the partners dancing close to each other, when dances from Africa are totally against this and consider it very rude and against their religion, as their dances are mostly in groups. Every dance should be appreciated the way it is and people should like or dislike dances based on the culture they have been raised in as they are different in every culture. Dances have been also used as a language people used to communicate with Gods, people used to have different dances for different reason, an example could be that when they needed rain for Agriculture they used to have a certain type of dance through which they were asking the Gods for