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✿The Hmong Music Culture✿

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Have you ever heard about the Hmong community? Over the last couple of years, I have been friends with people from this community. I have never heard of this ethnicity, so I appreciated when my friends would talk about their culture and even invite me to their New Year’s event at the Piedmont Fairgrounds. So, for this blog, I wanted to shed light over this underrated Asian community. To do that, I did both my own research and interviewed some of my close friends in this community. Your first question may be, “Where are the Hmong people from?” The Hmong American Center states that they “...originally came from China...” The Hmong people were known as nomads, so they traveled to different places like Vietnam and Laos. They were also a part of the “Secret War” of Vietnam assisting the U.S.A. My friend in this community, Olivia Moua, told me that they are known as the “Mountain people.” Although the Hmong people have no one true country, they still have a very rich culture. ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ There...

✿Asia and the Middle East✿

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  This has got to be my favorite section that we have learned in this class. I always try to find new things to listen to because I want to expand my taste in music. The last thing that I want is for language to be an issue. Not only that, but I also wanted to find out more about traditional instruments in certain countries. It amazes me how many instruments we can come up with and play. In this blog, I will be exploring music from Egypt, as well as a traditional instrument in Japan, and last but not least, I will be talking more about music from India.  ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿   Please tell me I'm not the only person that's obsessing over Marvel's Moon Knight series on Disney+. Steven Grant and Marc Spector are a weird duo, but I am not here to talk about the Moon Knight lore, because that would take forever. Instead, I wanted to focus on the end credits, more specifically, the songs that are played at the end.    Something important about Moon Knight is that most of the ser...