Topic: Different Nations and Traditions (Read 16149 times)

IRI5HJ4CK · « **on:** February 27, 2009, 18:16:16 »

Hi everyone,

I just had a thought, what sort of tradition's do you have in your country?

In Ireland, its mainly music, Irish dancing, Traditional Irish music, Ceilidh Bands (I used to be in one) etc.

An example of Accordion playing, for Irish dancing (Used to play for the Irish dancers myself too): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhbuQHRNfU

There is also a main competition in Ireland, its been going for years, its known all over Ireland, its called the "Fleadh Ceoil", "Ceoil" is music in Irish. People can enter from all over the world, last time, when I got to the all Ireland (Final event) On the accordion, There was an American accordion player there too.

I was lucky hehe, I came second in the all Ireland on the accordion

I was shocked!

So, whats the tradition's of your country?

Jack
p.s. I also play the piano

Person264 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:18:53 »

Drinking tea (but I don't)

RMSGreatBritain · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:22:43 »

In Britian, we:

Que, Complain, shoot people(in the north), swear, have kids at 16(in the north), eat marmite, get divorced, watch football(or rugby or cricket), drink cups of tea, listen to RnB, hip hop all that modern rubbish, have a roast dinner on a sunday, read the sun, let journalists ruin our lives, pay taxes, see reports of how our country is rubbish but when its really a beautiful country, hate France, have banter and watch TV. yes, thats britain.

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:24:38 »

Haha, this is our form of entertainment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_6uMSwoAe8&feature=related

Jack.

Minime · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:26:20 »

Mainly it's the faroese dance(which I'm not an fan of) basically what you do is sing some very old folksong and take one step to left, two step to right, it can be very loud when the old guys get serious and yell the song

firestar12 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:29:46 »

Here in America? We just sit down all day thinking. Thinking about what we are going to have for dinner. For entertainment, we just go to clubs lol.

TerryRussell · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:47:42 »

Hmmm... I think that the British and American entrants in the "state your traditions" competition do their countries a grave injustice.

A few random Southern English (Surrey/Sussex/Hampshire) traditions:

Morris Dancing
Maypole dancing
Thatched rooves
Jellied eels
Cockles & Whelks
Personal space requirement, three times that of a typical New Yorker

Ncena1 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:56:48 »

hm... germany ... BEER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Puil0j8B4

Ballast · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2009, 18:57:39 »

Meet Holland

jim.smith · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2009, 19:10:19 »

Eat plenty of curry.

Gloat · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2009, 19:41:58 »

Turkey: Turkish delight!
England: Football!
Austria: Skiing!
Antarctica: Snow.

Ballast · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2009, 22:00:52 »

Quote from: RMSGreatBritain on February 27, 2009, 18:22:43

In Britian, we:

shoot people(in the north), swear, have kids at 16(in the north)

Those things remind me soo much of Middlesbrough

Shipaddict · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2009, 22:31:23 »

This is what I believe British traditions are: (In priority order)

1. Drinking lots of tea.

2. Moaning and complaining. In my opinion we're best at it, we can complain very well when we want to.

3. Don't know really.

Captain Best · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2009, 22:41:41 »

Norwegian Traditons:

Pay lot of taxes and gas fuel price

.

fotball. following on Champions League in england.

skiing. walk in the nature.

Ncena1 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2009, 23:14:35 »

Germans gets very fast angry, if a bad driver drives infront of us

kuusuru · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2009, 00:03:08 »

Here in Australia, "Marmite" is something you say when your Pa asks you if your mother is going out. We eat Vegemite:

which is guaranteed to put hair on your chest and make a man out of you. We also drink a lot of beer:

In fact, we drink so much beer that our naval vessels are constructed entirely from empty beer cans:

We also take pleasure in thrashing our former colonial overlords at the game which they invented:

Both we and our kiwi brothers enjoy thrashing them at the other game they invented, although it has recently become a tradition that the kiwis also thrash us at it:

But we are still good friends. Such good friends that we provide a home to all those kiwis who are no longer welcome in their own country:

J3nsen · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2009, 01:01:26 »

Quote from: captain best on February 27, 2009, 22:41:41

Norwegian Traditons:

Pay lot of taxes and gas fuel price .

do not forget that Norway has a tradition of mind to smuggle cheap Swedish meat across the border!

Drakko · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2009, 01:05:29 »

from mexico: we do celebrations on december called posadas , we breack a piÃ±ate , eat a fruit juice called ponche
we have a kind of ships called chalupas (see in youtue a funny accident search for titanic mexicano)
bands called mariachis , and our food , there is the pozole ( maize in chili with meat) enchiladas there are a lot of enchiladas zuisas , mineras etc)and our multicolor dresses for the traditionals parties

Ballast · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2009, 08:54:57 »

Quote from: Ncena1 on February 27, 2009, 23:14:35

Germans gets very fast angry, if a bad driver drives infront of us

Especially Dutch drivers? NL = Nur Links??

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2009, 08:57:19 »

Quote from: kuusuru on February 28, 2009, 00:03:08

Here in Australia, "Marmite" is something you say when your Pa asks you if your mother is going out. We eat Vegemite:

which is guaranteed to put hair on your chest and make a man out of you. We also drink a lot of beer:

In fact, we drink so much beer that our naval vessels are constructed entirely from empty beer cans:

We also take pleasure in thrashing our former colonial overlords at the game which they invented:

Both we and our kiwi brothers enjoy thrashing them at the other game they invented, although it has recently become a tradition that the kiwis also thrash us at it:

But we are still good friends. Such good friends that we provide a home to all those kiwis who are no longer welcome in their own country:

Haha, I like the sound of Australia very much indeed

You sure your not related to us with the Beer side of things?

Jack.

kuusuru · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2009, 09:08:28 »

Quote from: IRI5HJ4CK on February 28, 2009, 08:57:19

Haha, I like the sound of Australia very much indeed You sure your not related to us with the Beer side of things?

A former premier of Queensland was fond of saying on St Patrick's day that "One-third of Queenslanders have Irish ancestry; the other two-thirds wish they did"

I'm one of the two-thirds; Danish/German on my mother's side, English/Scots on my father's, but that doesn't stop me enjoying the odd Kilkenny

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #21 on:** February 28, 2009, 09:11:29 »

Well one of the favorite Latvian dishes is a fruit bowl in a hollowed out watermelon, except the fruit isn't in water/watermelon juice, it is soaking in Vodka.

I'll get some pics tomorrow of some of the Latvian art we have in our house.

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #22 on:** February 28, 2009, 09:14:59 »

Quote from: kuusuru on February 28, 2009, 09:08:28

A former premier of Queensland was fond of saying on St Patrick's day that "One-third of Queenslanders have Irish ancestry; the other two-thirds wish they did"

I'm one of the two-thirds; Danish/German on my mother's side, English/Scots on my father's, but that doesn't stop me enjoying the odd Kilkenny

If you've got English/Scot's on your Father's side, its quite possable you've got some Irish ancestry, at some point

Irish get everywhere

Jack.

maritiem · « **Reply #23 on:** February 28, 2009, 10:44:18 »

Here in Sweden they (not me) are dancing around a pole dressed up in flowers and singing songs. it's called 'midsommar' to celebrate that it's sommar again.

maritiem

Person264 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 28, 2009, 12:44:10 »

Wash our cars on a Sunday

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