Dia De Los Muertos Or The Day Of The Dead

Skulls, ghost, masks, and skeletons are symbols seen every year during two famous holidays, Dias de los Muertos and Halloween. There are many people who think Dias de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is the same celebration as Halloween, just the Mexican Version. Is it though? By looking at the celebrations of Dias de los Muertos and Halloween, and their background, then comparing and contrasting each one, an obvious difference will be seen.

For this Hispanic Heritage Month Paper I chose the Inventor Guillermo González Camarena who invented the first color TV screen. The life of Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena started in Guadalajara on February 17, 1917. When Guillermo was 2 years old he moved to Mexico City where as a young boy he made electrically propelled toys and at 12 he constructed his first amatuer radio. When Guillermo was young he established a laboratory in the basement of his house! In 1930 he was selected to go to the School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineers and after two years was given permit as a radio administrator. While he tested in his research facility, he worked at the radio station of the Ministry of Education. In 1934 he fabricated his own TV camera when

Halloween is a fun, worldwide holiday. Today, Halloween, for children, is going out onto the streets and roaming from house to house asking for, mainly, candy. For adults, Halloween could mean parties, or handing out things to the children, or spending time with family. A similar holiday to Halloween, Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead is mainly limited to hispanic culture, however it has started to spread in more recent years. During Day of the Dead families create altars to attract and guide loved ones to their home, and the afterlife. Día de los Muertos consists of many community-wide celebrations, and parties. During Day of the Dead many people will dress up as skeletons and parade the streets of their community. These holidays might

Foreigners have more trouble understanding Dia de Los Muertos than any of Mexico's other celebrations. At first glance, they see Day of the Dead decorations which are colored paper garlands, little skeletons performing daily tasks and sugar skulls inscribed with names, which remind them of Halloween. Other tourists discover that much like Memorial or Remembrance Day in the US, families here visit, clean and decorate graves of loved ones for the

Mexico and Latin America celebrate “El Día de la Raza.” They celebrate this day in remembrance of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas. This day and month celebrates many nationalities of people having a common beginning, tradition, or language in the history of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Besides this throughout the month hispanics and latinos celebrate Hispanic Heritage through festivities, music, dancing, and food their Independence of their countries. Unlike us, we Americans celebrate our Independence day a little differently, like having cook outs, fire works, socializing, meeting up with friends and family, listening to music,and having fun. But overall it's the same idea like music, socializing, and eating

In Mexico, Dia de los Muertos is a celebration to honor the dead. This holiday was made for people struggle with losing loved ones, and celebrating it was found to be a good way to help them cope. Families can be seen in the cemetery bringing festive gifts to memorialize lost members.

My family ritual is that we celebrate Dia de Los Tres Reyes Magos, translating to the Epiphany in English, every year either by ourselves or with family friends. We celebrate the Three Kings arriving to visit the baby Jesus and present gifts to him. To me, this holiday is better than Christmas. Why? The night before the holiday, I put my shoe out in a visible area and sometimes even put a bowl of oatmeal next to it. On the day of the holiday, I wake up to my shoe overflowing with presents and all the oatmeal gone. The belief behind this is that the Three Kings visited my house and left presents. The oatmeal was for the camels because I cared about the King’s camels getting enough food to travel and leave presents for everyone as they did for

Halloween is praised on October 31 in a few nations. It has its roots in agnostic festivals for the end of the harvest season, different celebrations of the dead. Day of the Dead (or Dia de los Muertos) is a Mexican occasion, additionally celebrated in parts of Latin America and the U.S., to recall and appeal to God for family and companions who have kicked the bucket. It is on November 1.The Latin American festival Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is praised amid the same time period as Halloween. Both occasions are focused on conventions established in recognizing the perished. Albeit for the most part diverse, a couple of attributes of both occasions make them comparable - clarifying why disarray between the two exist. Halloween and Day of the Dead are both celebrated between people who are in the Christianity culture.

Halloween and Dia de los Muertos have different ways to celebrate their holidays. First of all Halloween is only one day while the Day of the Dead is actually three days. Halloween takes place on October 31st which at night is when people trick or treat. The reason by trick or treating is from an old story that was told that you should go to house to house asking for goods to scare away the bad souls which started reflecting on all the scary decorations during the holiday. While the Day of the Dead is October 31st-November 2nd which all the days reflect on the people who passed on and to celebrate life. People respect and have a meal at their incense grave sites with the souls that are good and that are now passed on to a better place.

Dia de los Muertos and Halloween are alike in some ways, but they are mostly different. For instance, Dia de los Muertos celebrates death. The people in Mexico and Central America who celebrate it aren’t afraid of this part of life. Halloween on the other hand celebrates being scared of death. On Dia de los Muertos, the people celebrate their loved ones who have passed, by honoring them. The reasons that Dia de los Muertos and Halloween are different are the people celebrate death, honor their dead loved ones, and finally the use of food, colors and costumes.

Over the course of history there have been many contrasting and similar views in terms of religion and the practices done in this aspect. An example is the Mexica (name given by the West to refer to the Aztecs) practices of El Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) and the Catholic (people in the Christian religion loyal to the Roman Catholic Church and the leader of that church, the Pope) practices of the holiday. The Day of the Dead fell on about the beginning of August which was the ninth month on the Aztec Solar Calendar and was celebrated for the entire month. The Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations commemorated this day by using skulls to honor and

There are abundant risks in exploring other cultures from a strictly descriptive point of view, especially when those descriptions do not originate from within the culture itself. External descriptions are virtually always skewed in their interpretations of the meanings and purposes of activities and traditions. When a person reads a portrayal of a culture other than their own, that information is filtered through their own cultural view. They are unlikely to be able to see behaviors and beliefs from the perspective of those that live them. For example, most people in the US are aware of Dios De Los Muertos, the Mexican Day of The Dead. How many of those people genuinely comprehend the underlying personal beliefs of the Mexican people who partake in the celebrations? Most Americans see the festivities and the costumes and assume they’re meant to be just fun and scary, the Mexican version of way Halloween perhaps, as they do share a date. They are unlikely to appreciate the spiritual basis for the costumes and celebrations. Even if one was to clarify for them how the day is meant to be a ceremony to honor and acknowledge their ancestors, most Americans would picture those ideals in comparison to perhaps Memorial Day. They probably wouldn’t be able to comprehend the difference between the US’s distanced acknowledgment of our recently deceased family and just how ingrained ancestral celebrations are in the overall tapestry that is Mexican cultural heritage. While most people

1) Claim: Halloween being one of the world’s oldest holidays is still celebrated in many other countries around the globe. In Mexico and other Latin American countries Dia de los Muertos is a huge part of their culture.

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s independence day, contrary to popular belief. It is a celebration of the triumph of Mexico in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, which is over half a century after Mexico became independent. It all started in 1861, when Mexico got a liberal president took over a country in financial ruin and Napoleon decided he wanted to create an empire in Mexico. The Battle of Puebla was just one part of the war, but it was an important moment during the Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867). The battle showed that the country could defend itself against powerful nations, even when they were vastly outnumbered.

Every year we celebrate Peru’s Independence Day on July 28th, and the festival of the Senor de los Milagros or The Lord of the Miracles. In Peru, my family and I celebrated Peru’s Independence Day by coming together in our house to share a traditional meal and watch the march and the President’s speech. The festival of The Senor de los Milagros during October was an important religious celebration for my family. My family and I used to go to the procession with my grandparents and then we would share a traditional meal every year. Since my family moved to the United States it has been harder for us to keep up with the celebrations because we are busy with school, or jobs. My grandparents have peruvian friends who organize events for Peru’s