Video: Uigur Ballad
Posted by Mike E on July 8, 2009
A Uigur ballad giving a sense of the culture of these Turkic people.
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Patty Wagon said
A Western cowboy hat is a demonstration of their culture??
Mike E said
heh. I suspect not the hat!
Maz said
Actually you see more than a few cowboy hats throughout far-Western China. They’re especially popular among Tibetan Yak herders in Western Sichuan province.
Patty Wagon said
Which only proves that individual “cultures” are breaking down in favor of global society.
Mike E said
Or that herding people and horse-men in asia learned to appreciate broad brimmed hats developed by Mexicans.
e said
haha nice :)
michelle said
Cow-boy hat is not really Uighur (Uyghur), but if you have read anythign historical, particularly on the Mummies of Urumqi, you will find that they have the habit of waring all sorts of hats. Example, the Yingisar people still wears the hat you see in the Europe long time ago. Every regions in Xinjiang has their unique hat which is different from the rest. Only recently, the Uyghur has had the identical crisis and every one becoming very traditional such as man and woman starting to ware hats. However, I like to drag your attention to their plight now that the facist chinese government is killing the uyghur demonstrator many times more than tienammen squares. Basically they started shooting the demonstrator then taked the ones that was not daed. Recently they have executed 200 and 600 more who have been taken as suspicious from their home and go to do the same on those poople. Whole world closed their eyes on such a barbaric act and genocide precisely. Today is uyghur the next is you, wake up!!