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El Dia De Los Muertos: 12 Aspects Of Culture
1. El Dia De Los Muertos
• Twelve Aspects of Culture: Language, Art & Expressive Form, Food, Recreation, Healing Beliefs & Practices, and Clothing.
• When I attended to the Festival there was men and woman form different ages and different ethnicities.
• Cultural term applies to my observation because El Dia De Los Muertos it’s a tradition Mexicans are custom to it.
• My Observation was in November 1st at ELAC (1:30p.m-2: 00p.m)
2. This was the 5th annual Dia De Los Muertos Festival at ELAC. This is my first time attending a festival and my experiences that I observed was food, ceramic skulls, face painting, t-shirts with Calaveras, handbags, music band, etc.
3. I would describe El Dia De Los Muertos practice as original because nothing has

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