Comparing Uganda Culture and Chinese Culture
UGANDAN CULTURE AND CHINESE CULTURE: THE DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES
Uganda has more than 40 ethnic groups, each with unique foods, dance, music, language and religious beliefs and a population of less than 35million. China has 56 ethnic groups also with their own unique cultures and beliefs. To compare and contrast the Ugandan culture and Chinese culture, I will look at aspects common to all the ethnic groups in each of the respective countries.
FOOD
Let me start by looking at what Ugandans and Chinese eat. Back in Uganda there are very many customs and totems that limit what one particular group of people can eat. For example a certain clan is forbidden from eating a certain animal or part of an animal and these are different from clan to clan or even an entire tribe. My clan in particular is forbidden from eating a bird called an egret and much as other animals like snakes, snails, dogs and cats are not mentioned, eating any of them is unheard of. However this doesn’t seem to be the case in china. In my first few days in china, I came to realize that the Chinese people have almost everything on the menu, even some plants and animals I had never heard of. Still on the topic of food, unlike in china where there are special foods eaten during certain festivals like moon cake, in Uganda there are no such foods. When it comes to foods favored by different ethnic groups or tribes, I believe the Ugandan and Chinese cultures are similar i.e. like china; different ethnic groups in Uganda have a unique style of preparing different foods.
Like the Chinese, Ugandans also have staple foods. While the Chinese staple foods include rice, noodles, vegetables, tofu, and soup, the Ugandan staple foods include ugali, groundnuts, sim-sim, matooke, luwombo and malewa but of course each tribe has a unique staple food.
RELIGION
It’s also important to look at religion in both china and Uganda. The religious beliefs of Ugandans have largely shifted from the ancestral traditional
Uganda has more than 40 ethnic groups, each with unique foods, dance, music, language and religious beliefs and a population of less than 35million. China has 56 ethnic groups also with their own unique cultures and beliefs. To compare and contrast the Ugandan culture and Chinese culture, I will look at aspects common to all the ethnic groups in each of the respective countries.
FOOD
Let me start by looking at what Ugandans and Chinese eat. Back in Uganda there are very many customs and totems that limit what one particular group of people can eat. For example a certain clan is forbidden from eating a certain animal or part of an animal and these are different from clan to clan or even an entire tribe. My clan in particular is forbidden from eating a bird called an egret and much as other animals like snakes, snails, dogs and cats are not mentioned, eating any of them is unheard of. However this doesn’t seem to be the case in china. In my first few days in china, I came to realize that the Chinese people have almost everything on the menu, even some plants and animals I had never heard of. Still on the topic of food, unlike in china where there are special foods eaten during certain festivals like moon cake, in Uganda there are no such foods. When it comes to foods favored by different ethnic groups or tribes, I believe the Ugandan and Chinese cultures are similar i.e. like china; different ethnic groups in Uganda have a unique style of preparing different foods.
Like the Chinese, Ugandans also have staple foods. While the Chinese staple foods include rice, noodles, vegetables, tofu, and soup, the Ugandan staple foods include ugali, groundnuts, sim-sim, matooke, luwombo and malewa but of course each tribe has a unique staple food.
RELIGION
It’s also important to look at religion in both china and Uganda. The religious beliefs of Ugandans have largely shifted from the ancestral traditional