Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts

November 17, 2010

苗族(Miao People)



The Miao are a linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China as one of the 55 official minority groupsThe Miao is divided to two parts, one called Raw Miao, living primarily in southeast and northeast of Guizhou Province, northwest of Hunan Province, whose culture hasn’t been affected by Han Chinese’s. This region wasn’t included in Chinese territory until Ming Dynasty. The Ming government resorted to force several times in order to control it. The government even built great wall in South China to limit Miao people’s living area, isolating them from Han Chinese and the other part of Miao people. Until Qing Dynasty, these people began to contact with outside world, did business and exchanged culture.

"Raw meat eaters"


Esquimo people is the general name which defines indigenous people from different cultures, coming from the north of America and Asia. Literally the term “Esquimese” comes from the native language and it means “raw meat eaters”. But Esquimo people judge this definition as injurious and full of preconception. To obviate to this misunderstanding, Esquimo people ask to change the name of the population in “Inuit” wich means simply “men”.