carnival

The film we watched in the class last time describes about Carnival Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. It shows that people in Bahia (mostly poor) who has African descent gather together and enjoy 5 days of festival. They live other 360 days for the Carnival and forget about stressful matters in their ordinary lives. The film also shows how people prepare for the carnival and enjoy it. The article also describes several Latino festivals in the United States. It focuses more on origin of those festivals and expression of same hispanic identity in the US.