Cultural heritage includes: cultures, customs, beliefs, rites, rituals, ceremonies, indigenous knowledge, social customs and traditions, arts, crafts, music, political and ideological beliefs that influence culture and behavior, history, practices concerning the natural environment, religious and scientific traditions, .
What do you mean by our cultural heritage?
Cultural heritage can be defined as the legacy of physical artifacts (cultural property) and intangible attributes of a group or society inherited from the past. Cultural Heritage is a concept which offers a bridge between the past and the future with the application of particular approaches in the present..
What is an example of our cultural heritage?
Examples of cultural heritage include tangible assets such as visual art, food, clothing, and styles of architecture along with intangible assets such as legends, music, and values like generosity or respect..
What is our culture and heritage?
Culture - Culture can be defined as the sum of habits, skill, traditions, customs, religion, beliefs. Heritage - Heritage are the various touchable and untouchable things that are passed to us by our ancestors and have a cultural or social significance..
Cultural heritage is central to protecting our sense of who we are. It gives us an irrefutable connection to the past – to certain social values, beliefs, customs and traditions, that allows us to identify ourselves with others and deepen our sense of unity, belonging and national pride.
Heritage is a person's unique, inherited sense of family identity: the values, traditions, culture, and artifacts handed down by previous generations. We absorb a sense of our heritage throughout our lives as we observe and experience the things that make our family unique.
Morocco is endowed with a rich and diverse cultural heritage resulting from the marriage of traditions, habits and customs of different cultures and civilizations: Amazigh, Carthaginian, Roman, Arabo-Muslim, Hassani, Jewish, Andalusian, Mediterranean and African.
Cultural heritage implies a shared bond, our belonging to a community. It represents our history and our identity; our bond to the past, to our present, and the
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It has also hosted many beliefs, from Paganism, Judaism, and Christianity to Islam. Each region possesses its uniqueness, contributing to the national culture.
Tangible and intangible cultural heritage
Cultural heritage often brings to mind artifacts (paintings, drawings, prints, mosaics, sculptures), historical monuments and buildings
The importance of protecting cultural heritage
But cultural heritage is not just a set of cultural objects or traditions from the past
Whose cultural heritage?
The term “cultural heritage” typically conjures up the idea of a single society and the communication between its members
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The Cultural Heritage Act of 1978 is a Norwegian law that protects heritage sites and cultural environments. The structures and spaces that it covers are deemed to have cultural or architectural value. The act includes heritage such as structures and sites, sometimes the area around a monument, protected structures, boats, shipwrecks, and cultural environments. The act describes what automatically enjoys cultural heritage protection and what may be protected under an individual decision.
Our cultural heritage
Threat made by U.S. President Donald Trump against Iranian cultural sites on Twitter
On January 4, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump made several tweets stating that if Iran retaliated against the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the United States will hit 52 Iranian sites, some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture, very fast and very hard. The threat was widely described as a pretty clear promise of a war crime and was condemned by the international community as well as other American politicians. However, on January 5, Trump renewed the threat, and said They're allowed to kill our people... and we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn't work that way.
