INDEGENOUS PEOPLE

INDEGENOUS PEOPLE IN MINDANAO

In Mindanao Philipines there are about 40 types of ethnics.Each group have different type of language and culture.Some of them can bequalified as a ‘tribal groups’.They still stay in tradisional way and it is different than the ancestors before.Each group of them stay on one of specific island.The most popular island that you can meet them are on Luzons,some of the Visayas Island and Mindanao


The T'boli and B'laan, two indigenous groups

There are all 18 diferent tribal group lived on Mindanao. The most well known are the T'boli and the B'laan (or "Bla-an"). The other groups are the Ata, Bagobo, Banwaon, Bukidnon, Dibabawon, Higaunon, Kalagan, Mamanwa, Mandaya, Mangguwangan, Manobo, Mansaka, Subanen, Tagakaolo, Teduray and the Ubo.

Lumad, the collective name

All the 18 ethnic group will be calling as Lumad,that is the collective noun for all of them.It is also another name ‘indegenous’. These ethnic groups distinguish themselves by their language and culture.


Old and new elements in their life

The most valuable culture of this group is in their clothes and ornaments they wear. Housing.economic activities,cultural habits and often religion are all still in tradisional.Some of the ethnic here have learned how to get extra money by the tourism activities.However,yet they still like to live in the tradisional way.

The T'boli and their subsistence activities

The T’boli (Tiboli)people live in the southern part of the province Cotabata,in the environment around lake Sibu,west of the city in the General Santos.It is about 100000 and 150000 T’boli there.A long time ago,T’boli practiced the primitive agriculture “slash and burn”.”Slash and burn” means that all the forest will be clear by cutting the big trees and burning the lower and smaller trees and bushes,after which they use the cleared plots as arable land for some years without any fertilization. Rice, cassava, and yams, were the most important agriculture products. Beside that, the people went hunting or fishing for additional food.There are so many years that this primitive agriculture is no longer possible.The forest is no longer exist because the intensive economic activities like foresting.As a result,the T’boli live in the mountains.Some foreigners,in coorperation with the aid organization Cord Aid, manage to developing some hectares of arable land in the few years .Nevertheless,the T’boli live in poor situation; a struggle for live.

Religion and culture

Some of the T’boli are Christian and Islamite.But most of the T’boli still has their animistic religion. They were were hardly influenced by the spread of the Islam on the island. The Christianize also not succeed to spread during the colonization of The Spaniards.Main reason was that the T’boli withdrew to the hinterlands in the uplands.The T’boli and some of the tribal indigenous like Higaunon,still believe the spirits live in the natural environment

Threats to their way of living

Last decades there are threats of land problems. The steady population growth of their own people and especially the pressure on the lands by lowland farmers and foreign and local companies. The lowland farmers (often landless) are seeking for arable land. The companies are most of the time interested in the natural resources in these areas. Mining, new plantations and logging, are the threats to the T'boli and their homeland.

How Do They Do It??

Glassblowing is glassforming technique. A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith or gaffer. They using blowpipe or blow tube to blow the glass. Free-blowing is one of the technique of glassblowing. The process of free-blowing involves the blowing of short puffs of air into a molten portion of glass which is gathered at one end of the blowpipe.

The glassworker then quickly inflate the molten glass into a desired shape. Skilled workers are capable of shaping almost any vessel forms by rotating the pipe, swinging it and controlling the temperature of the piece while they blow. They can produce a great variety of glass objects, ranging from drinking cups to window glass.

History..

Glassblowing is a glass forming technique which was invented by the Phoenicians at approximately 50 B.C. somewhere along the Syro-Palestinian coast. The earliest evidence of glassblowing comes from a collection of waste from a glass workshop, including fragments of glass tubes, glass rods and tiny blown bottles, which was dumped in a mikvah, a ritual bath in the Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem dated from 37 to 4 B.C.

In conclusion, glassblowing is the art that not everyone can do it. It needs skills and full commitment to produce it.

MEDIA

How To Become A Model

Modelling can be fun, exciting, and adventurous. Be sure to maintain realistic expectations because the chances of becoming a successful or famous model are less.There are few steps to become a model.

Step 1

You have to consider your physical characteristics first:You should 5-foot-7 or taller. You should wear a size 4 to 6, and you should have a 32- to 35-inch bust, a 22- to 25-inch waist, and 33- to 36-inch hips.

Step 2
Work on having clear skin, healthy hair and straight teeth.Models must look attractive and that cannot be denied.

Step 3
Consider your mental attitude: You should be ambitious, confident, organized, willing to travel or move to foreign cities, able to spend and invest wisely and able to take rejection.

Step 4
You can visit local modeling agencies to find an agent that willing to help you build a portfolio.

Step 5
Go to any castings with your portfolio in hand to win potential clients and get modeling jobs.

Step 6
You have to be prompt and professional. Exhibit the confidence that you will use to sell products.

Step 7
Be prepared. When you attend your appointment, they might ask you to make certain faces like laughing, happy, sad or seductive. Practice in front of a mirror before you are going to attend any appoinment.

Step 8

Learn to accept rejection or criticism politely. Thank the people for their time.You will be respect by others.

Tips & Warnings

• Catalog models don't always have to be 5-foot-7 or taller, but they have to be thin.
  
  
• Runway models are required to be at least 5-foot-9



• Teen or junior models must be 5-foot-6 and at least 12 years old, with youthful looks.



• Modeling is not always glamorous. Long days of castings, long trips on the road and rejection can be stressful.



• Speak with a reputable professional before deciding whether modeling is for you.



• Know your limits on style. If you don't want to do glamor work or are uncomfortable with something, speak up and do not let people push you past those limits. Also consider where you want your career to go in future.



• Modeling is a tough business. Try not to be discouraged by rejections. Even top models still get rejected for about 70% of everything they are doing.



• Almost all agencies will ask you to fill out a contract. Be sure to read through it thoroughly and make sure you know what every word means, even use a dictionary if you have to.Better know what you are signing for before you accept.

GOOD LUCK!!