Festivale di Santa Rosa: Secondo Notte

okay this was made on Sept. 2 so enjoy!
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This was the second day of Santa Rosa and the costume parade was really cool. They have people of all ages dress up like monks, nuns, knights...all surround the centuries between 1200-1800 A.D.

This costume parade expresses how long this celebration has been going on and the centuries that follow it.

In front of the parade, a religious communion went on and the monks (real ones), priests and the bishop (?) came and walked with Santa Rosa's heart in a basket

It was creepy and sort of dark, but fascinating at the way they still celebrate someone's death for such a long time...almost like 800 years!

In America, we do not have a celebration like this. A festival that is so important to every single American. Even though we are a young country, every national holiday, whether we celebrate our freedom, our labor laws, or presidents, a fake mexican holiday (Cinco de Mayo) or even a man who brought two races together, seems like another drunken holiday or just another day off in the year. But it doesn't appear to be like that here. Well, maybe to the younger people who see it asa party opportunity, but not for the older crowd. They see it as something that brings them a strong sense of nationalism (in good terms!), basically a strong sense of their hertiage and themselves. And in America, we have yet to discover that...

I mean seriously, we hypenate ourselves like White-American, Black-American, Korean-American, Mexican-American, but we never lump ourselves as Americans in america! You only say "American" like its important in another country where we become the minority.

Why can't we call ourselves Americans, instead of being hyphenated? I mean, I am a Mulitracial-American, half Arab-American, half Black-American, but I always thought of myself as an American, no matter if I had to choose the "other" box or not.

I wonder whe countries (especially America) stop being immature and start to become the ripe old country (like France or Italy or England) and get their act together.

I guess North America (Canada and US) has not had that experience yet...

For now,

Maya

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*its hard putting up video, so the costume video is replaced by costume photo!