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Barrio Fiesta in Austria

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Filipino Culture & Festival/ Barrio Fiesta in Austria! There are many types of Filipino in Austria with different dialects from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The major annual gathering for the Filipino community in Austria is the Barrio Fiesta, a Filipino festival in Vienna, the capital of Austria. They also gather not only at the festival, but also in the Christmas season where many of the Filipino community celebrate Christmas in every bundesland of Austria. Filipinos in Austria are either migrants from the Philippines or descendants of Philippine citizens who live in Austria, and are part of a broader pattern of migration from the Philippines. Everyone who migrates to Austria needs to learn the German language, which is the main language spoken in the country. This is very important if you live in Austria, so that you can communicate with people and also work, as many Austrians don't speak English. According to Wikipedia, roughly 30,000 Filipinos reside i...

Indigenous tribes Philippines

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The ancestors of most Indigenous peoples were shamans and Elders who possessed more knowledge than the modern younger communities. They knew more primitive survival tactics and there is a push to bring Western science and Indigenous knowledge together.  This proves they possess knowledge more valuable than some scientists currently understand. According to the UN, there are approximately 370 million indigenous peoples currently living across the world, representing about 5% of the global population. It's also estimated there are as many as 5,000 different indigenous cultures. There are Indigenous tribes on continents across the world, that have lived freely in their homelands, preserving their traditional cultural values amongst the wild nature, as did their ancestors, with very little change for thousands of years. Various indigenous people often relocated from place to place in order to find food and water to survive, being the original colonizers of the world. However many in...