What is unique about your peoples culture?

[evon]

I wonder what people see as unique about their own culture, as separate from other cultures?

My own local culture has a few unique things, but they are not overall unique, since you find commonalities in other regional neighbour cultures..

the few things that seem to be unique for us is:

- Stave Churches:



Though you might find a similar style in Russia from what ive heard?

- Brown cheese:



I am not sure about this, because its very similar to English style cheeses too, like Leicester red cheese, and judging from the Wikipedia page it seems you also find it in other Scandinavian countries...

[Atlantic Islander]

The Holy Ghost Festival.

Every year, the Azoreans, especially the inhabitants of Terceira, celebrate the Holy Ghost Festival. This religious celebration begins Easter Sunday and runs for eight weeks until Pentecost and Trinity Sunday.

This ancient religious tradition began on mainland Portugal around 1296 by an initiative of Portuguese Queen Isabel. She founded the first Holy Ghost brotherhood whose intent was to honor the poorest man in the kingdom. According to the tradition, the poorest man was placed on the king's throne and crowned "emperor" for one day during a ceremony held in his honor in the royal church.

Following the crowning ceremony, a royal procession took the crowned man from the church to the palace, where a banquet was then offered in his honor. Considered an act of humbleness, the tradition was first introduced in the Azores through the first settlers around 1432 and practiced through subsequent generations.

Though the tradition has disappeared on mainland Portugal, it is still actively celebrated in the Azores, as well as in Azorean immigrant communities in the U.S., Canada and Brazil.

[Damião de Góis]

Unique? The Manueline architecture style:







Fado and the portuguese guitar:



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Some local pastries and foods:

[Pallantides]

Rakfisk


Hallingdans

[SKYNET]

a familiar building

[Atlantic Islander]

Not worn anymore, but unique to the Azores.
Mulher de Capote



And unique to the island I am from.

Espécie

[evon]

a familiar building

What is that from?

Rakfisk

Hallingdans

You might be right about the Rakfisk, but the Dance i think you will find similarities in many Eurasian cultures...

[evon]

Unique? The Manueline architecture style:

Some local pastries and foods:

The building style looks allot like Spanish colonial era styles?

Those pastries look like something you find in most European countries...

[SKYNET]

What is that from?

from the strategy game of Age of Empires 2
my favorite one

[Pallantides]

Detail from inside Lom Stave Church(take a look at god):