Week 4 Project 4c

1.Culture
According to Wikipedia, culture "refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance." This means that every group of people in the world has different beliefs, dances, music, art, and life. The things that these people do is what makes up their culture. Culture is passed down through generations, and the new generation is trusted in keeping their culture alive and thriving. Culture ties into the subject of missions and colonization because there is a clash of cultures when these things happen. Many times, one culture is forced to let go of their culture and embrace a new one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

2. Jessica 4a
From Jessica I learned that California's 18th mission was the largest mission. It was called San Luis Rey de Francia (a.k.a. "The King of the Missions"). It was named after King Louis IX. In the garden, there was springs that ran through the mouths of gargoyles and the Indians did their laundry there. This relates to Freire because to the Spaniard, Missions were seen as a place of education. They felt that they were educating the savages, and that was good to them. This relates to the region we are studying because during that time, California was still a part of Latin America.

Stephanie 3a
For Stephanie, I learned about the Pipil peoples. The Pipil live in western El Salvador and Honduras. They speak a dialect of Nauhatl called Pipil. There are about 200,000 Pipil left and the language has pretty much died because it was banned in 1930. Their mythology is very influenced by the Maya and they are pantheistic. They also practiced human sacrifice. The Pipil people were an agricultural culture. Freire can be related to this because it shows how education is influenced by those other cultures around you. For example, the Pipil people had similar mythology to the Maya because they interacted with them. This relates to the region we are studying because the Pipil people live in Latin America.