Summary and Analysis
South Asia is a huge piece of land and ocean for about 2 million square miles. It can be called India subcontinent as the major part of South Asia consists of India. By the way South Asia is the most populated land. It is known for its unique food and big amount of foreign residents.
It tells us about the caste system which divides people into five groups: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras and Untouchables according to different body parts of the deity “Brahma”.
It explains in details caste system: how it works, food traditions, wedding and religions. Also it describes people from lower and upper classes. It remembers Gandhi thanks to whom India became independent.
This article introduces us the attainment of human rights of minorities in South Asia. Even after the draft of the project about the rights of minorities, it was questioned and had difficulties.
It is important to protect minorities as every nation is much stronger when there are native representatives of it. Native people should be united and have their rights. (Tobgay)
Some of the minorities have limit to the right for self-determination. International instruments are clear that self-determination is vested in people determining their future international status, the system of government, and the substantive nature of democracy (Mishra and Sudhir286). Thus, any indigenous group can still claim to secede on allegations that the “political system has become so exclusive and non-democratic that it no longer can be said to represent the whole of the population” (Mishra and Sudhir 289).
The main theme of this video is the meeting, courtship, and marriage of a young Limbu couple. It shows the culture, how they sing, dance, what they do, their customs and traditions, the relations between men and women. (“Latest Limbu Song Paangjum Paangyak By Sita Kumari Singak Limbu”)
It is about earthquake and loss of thousands of lives in Nepal. ("Nepal's Nightmare: Tales of grief and survival") It tells us about the government who did not think about the catastrophe in advance and many people suffer and it concerns a lot of countries.
It is about the regional cooperation of the countries in South Asia and the point is that elite class influences political leaders. Besides, international or regional cooperation both are governed by utilitarian concept.
This article is dedicated to the representation of the Buddha. There is a thought that there are five celestial Buddhas. The five celestial Buddhas are embodied in stupas. The largest stupa in the world, BodhaNath, is located in the Valley of Kathmandu (Chitrakar 25).
The article is about Nepal artists. Some weird creature existed in Nepal traditions – Makar. Nepal culture was developing all the time and the Nepali art essentially included all the essential guardian deities.
Modern Nepal art includes modernism but it remains a lot of old traditions. The past is deep inside them. It is only better to include several cultures in one piece of work.
It shows that Maldives not only good resort but also has beautiful culture and traditions. Functional literacy rate on Maldives is 98%. The uniqueness of the culture is explained by the influence of a lot of other cultures, for example, Arabian, Indian, Persian etc. By the way women have many freedoms and rights.
It describes the language, customs, religion, communication styles, and relations between people in Bangladesh. The official language in this country is Bangla or Bengali. Most of the country’s population ascribes to Islam.
Personally I have known a lot from these comments. I knew something new about every culture as I have never been interested in Asian cultures it was interesting for me to find it out. Also I was surprised by the information about Maldives. I always thought it is just a resort and nothing more, but I was mistaken. It is interesting to see that every Asian country has its own culture. We can see that every country has special kind of art and culture especially Nepal. Also I was impressed that elite class of people influences the politicians. Most of all I like that they show their feelings by songs and dancing and not by money and rich presents like in European countries. That is why I can say that they have real true feelings. Maybe that is because of their religions. Because I always thought that Asia has very spiritual canons.
Works cited
Tobgay, Tshering. “This Country Isn’t Just Carbon Neutral – It’s Carbon Negative”.
Mishra, Navin, and Sudhir K. Singh. Status of Minorities in South Asia. Delhi: Authorspress, 2002. Print.
“Latest Limbu Song Paangjum Paangyak By Sita Kumari Singak Limbu.” EMP4 MP4 Centre. 2016. Web. 16 July 2016.
"Nepal's Nightmare: Tales of grief and survival." YouTube. SBS Dateline, n.d. Web. 19 July 2016.
Chitrakar, Madan. Nepali Art: Issues Miscellany. Nepal: Teba-Chi Studies Centre, 2012.
