THE YEAR OF THE DOG
Well Chinese New Year is well under way by now and what better way to join in the celebrations than to attend the Chinese New Year Parade for the year of the Dog in Sydney?
Starting at 11am on sunday and continuing on from George Street into China Town the Parade had a massive turn out. Amongst the crowd could be heard a very diverse collection of accents including Japanese, American, Canadian, Swedish, German and British to name a few.
Some highlights of the Parade were definatley the traditional dancers and the many paper dragons slinking their way through the crowd and everywhere was the flying of the Aussie and Chinese flags as well as a few promoting the Beijing 2008 games.
It was such a vibrant atmosphere and smiles were abundant (apart from the horrible mother cramping herself next to us, complaining that the parade hadn't started exactly at 11am like they advertised) as the parade marched by. It was so great to see an event promoting a different culture within our own, and it was refreshing to see smiles and the throwing of candy to kids instead of hate faces and the throwing of beer bottles at the Muslims. A truly mulitcultural event for a multicultural city, and one with so much acceptance instead of hatred. If only everything in Sydney was like this, hopefully the tourists who attended didn't only have the so called "race riots" on their minds and this time, Aussies can be proud of the headlines in the news.
posted by Lucyspeak @ 3:58 pm
4 Comments:
Lucy,
Thanks for coming and visiting my site. Just by chance I wrote a review of Juliette, Ga on the emagazine I edit, "Dew on the Kudzu". It's address is www.todaysdeepsouth.blogspot.com.
I love reading about travels and such, I'll be back to see what you're up to!
Thanks for posting just a positive post. Sometimes all the hate and anger gets to me.
Sounds like it was a fun time!
Lucy,
Blogroll away! I'll be back to visit you too.
:)
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