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Have you heard of Kwanzaa?
Kwanzaa has seven core principles(Nguzo Saba).
And why does everybody make fun of Kwanzaa?
Non-African Americans also celebrate Kwanzaa.[12] The holiday greeting is"Joyous Kwanzaa".[13][14][15].
In 2009, Maya Angelou narrated thedocumentary The Black Candle, a film about Kwanzaa.
I'm not sure what that Kwanzaa principle is.
In a 2006 speech, Maulana Karenga asserted that 28 million people celebrate Kwanzaa.
Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966, as the first specifically African-American holiday,[2](but see also Juneteenth).
Stjepan Meštrović, a sociology professor at the Texas A&M University, sees Kwanzaa as an example of postmodernism.
And for Kwanzaa, we had to pay homage to our Puerto Ricans, and we did a coconut charcoal cognac coquito. Dímelo!
Christmas decorations have long been a part of office celebrations,but what about holidays like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the Chinese New Year?
Kwanzaa(/ˈkwɑːn. zə/) is a week-long celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas.
The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture and is observed from December 26 to January 1,culminating in a feast and gift-giving.[1] Kwanzaa has seven core principles(Nguzo Saba).
According to Karenga, the name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning"first fruits of the harvest",[3] although a more conventional translation would simply be"first fruits".
The National Retail Federation has sponsored a marketing survey on winter holidays since 2004,and in 2015 found that 1.9% of those polled planned to celebrate Kwanzaa- about six million people.
Families celebrating Kwanzaa decorate their households with objects of art, colorful African cloth such as kente, especially the wearing of kaftans by women, and fresh fruits that represent African idealism.
The National Retail Federation has sponsored a marketing survey on winter holidays since 2004, and in 2015 found that 1.9% of those polled planned to celebrate Kwanzaa- about six million people.[22] In a 2006 speech, Maulana Karenga asserted that 28 million people celebrate Kwanzaa.
In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares,[30][31] having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.
According to Meštrović, modern society has discarded ancient traditions as racist, sexist or otherwise oppressive, but since living in a world where nothing is true istoo terrifying to most people,"nice" and"synthetic" traditions like Kwanzaa have been created to cope with the nihilistic, individualistic modern society.[32].
Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba(originally Nguzu Saba- the seven principles of African Heritage), which Karenga said"is a communitarian African philosophy," consisting of what Karenga called"the best of African thought and practice in constant exchange with the world.".
According to University of Minnesota Professor Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the U.S. has"leveled off" as the black power movement there has declined, and as of 2009 between 500 thousand and two million Americans celebrated Kwanzaa, or between one and five percent of African Americans.
A Kwanzaa ceremony may include drumming and musical selections, libations, a reading of the African Pledge and the Principles of Blackness, reflection on the Pan-African colors, a discussion of the African principle of the day or a chapter in African history, a candle-lighting ritual, artistic performance, and, finally, a feast(karamu)?
Many African American families celebrate Kwanzaa along with Christmas and New Year's.[18] Frequently, both Christmas trees and kinaras, the traditional candle holder symbolic of African American roots, share space in Kwanzaa-celebrating households. For people who celebrate both holidays, Kwanzaa is an opportunity to incorporate elements of their particular ethnic heritage into holiday observances and celebrations of Christmas.
Kwanzaa is a celebration that has its roots in the black nationalist movement of the 1960s and was established as a means to help African Americans reconnect with their African cultural and historical heritage by uniting in meditation and study of African traditions and Nguzo Saba, the"seven principles of African Heritage" which Karenga said"is a communitarian African philosophy".