Have you done a lot of studying about the world outside of your own town? Have you been lucky enough to have traveled a lot? If you answered yes to either of those questions, you probably know that people who live in different places can seem very different. In fact, people from foreign places can sometimes even seem very strange.
But if you have studied a lot or traveled, you probably also know that once you understand foreign people and places better, they seem a lot less strange and a lot more fun.
The people of Papua New Guinea understand this idea. In Papua New Guinea, there are a lot of different kinds of people with many different traditions. People have different ways of doing things like dancing and making music, or cooking and eating. They even have different ways of dressing, like the man in this picture.
PHOTO: AFP
The people of Papua New Guinea don’t think this is scary or confusing. Every year they have a party in a town called Goroka where people who have different cultures can gather, meet and hopefully understand each other better.
(Kayleen Hartman, Staff Writer)
你研究過家鄉之外的世界嗎?你很幸運地能經常旅行嗎?假如你有一題的回答是肯定的,你或許就知道不同地方的人可能差異極大。事實上,外國人有時候甚至可能看起來很奇怪。
不過,假如你讀了很多書或經常旅行,你大概知道一旦你更了解外國人與外國,他們似乎就沒那麼奇怪,而是有趣多了。
巴布亞紐幾內亞的人明白這個觀念。在巴布亞紐幾內亞,有許多傳統各異的不同種族。人們跳舞、創作音樂,烹飪及飲食的方式各不相同。他們甚至有不同的衣著方式,就像照片中的男子。
巴布亞紐幾內亞的人不覺得這樣子讓人害怕或困擾。他們每年都會在果洛卡鎮舉行派對,文化迥異的人們可以聚在一起會面,希望能更加了解彼此。
(翻譯︰賴美君)
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