NottingHillCarnival伦敦诺丁山狂欢节.doc

Notting Hill Carnival 伦敦诺丁山狂欢节
Brief Introduction:Notting Hill Carnival is Europe's biggest street culture art festival, each year in the UK in a west London notting hill. The most black population in Notting Hill area is not from Africa, who are from the Caribbean or other parts of Latin America. It is the immigrant culture spawned the notting hill carnival. In the 1960s, live in notting hill area of west Indian immigrants held by homesickness sentiment heavy but carnival, when but only a small group of people dressed in national costume, knocks the steel drum in the streets around it. After several decades, it developed into scale grand multicultural festival and London's most sought-after tourist attractions.
The Origin:Talking about the origin of the carnival, stay out Claudia Jones. Jones was born in 1915, the British colonies in the Caribbean, at the age of 9 to Trinidad American reunited with their parents. She joined the communist party in 1936. After the second World War during the McCarthyism prevailed, Jones was repeatedly imprisoned, and in 1955 deportations by the United States after the western Caribbean immigrants moved to London in notting hill area.
Founded in 1958, Jones of the west Indies newspaper, calling for the colonists to unite strive for independence, achieve racial equality and world peace. The following year, notting hill area appears aimed at blacks for the ethnic violence in the local organizations, Jones had a pedestrian activities, publicize the Caribbean excellent culture, and in that year August launched Britain first indoor Caribbean carnival, advocate the fusion and unity between the RACES. 1964 Jones died this activity evolved into street carnival and then in Europe household notting hill carnival.
To remember the notting hill carnival founder and her intention, this August 22, the British government in notting hill area two sites set up a souvenir.
All over the world in the carnival, Notting Hill Carnival is only after Brazil carnival in Rio DE janeiro in scale. Notting Hill Carnival, always with full-bodied Caribbean appeal celebrated. The theory, Notting Hill Carnival costumes and masks as a singular luxuriant masquerade party; Music, theory of steel cable songs, cable card with doppler music is the soul of notting hill carnival. Steel drum beat strong rhythm is enough to beat eating immediately speed; Cary diop cable songs often according to the latest hot social politics and lyrics, but the songwriter impromptu changes irony ecru unchanged.
The scene: Notting Hill Carnival is held in 26 August every year in Britain, this is the largest European scope, the world's second largest carnival. This year, organizers expected of a two-day carnival will attract 200 million people come to celebrate.
Children "Phalanx" First
This theme of this year is” to mark the 200th anniversary of the repeal of the slave trade”.
The carnival activities in 26, the different color children dressed in different colour clothing, face with all kinds of pigment festively singing and dancing to parade in notting hill nearly five kilometers of main street. Bright sunlight, on both sides of the road pedestrian scramble to see the children of elegant appearance.
"The English only this once so happy and relaxed, even if you hit others, they also just smile at you," the lorry driver Richard SuNa peck evaluation notting hill carnival said.
Large-scale,Big-appetite
According to British police estimates, to watch the 26 carnival activities are about 25 million people. However, this figure and is held in 27 of the "adult carnival" is "than a fraction."
According to tradition, the second day of the carnival is the real meaning of the carnival. Then, there will be coming from South America, Africa and the Caribbean organization involved in parades, and bring to visit the crowd of different styles and dress music and dance.
Last year, notting hill carnival, attracted a total of 150 million, organizers expected this year the number of visits will be enlarged to 200 million. According to the number.
However, a large number of tourists to the local merchants enormous business opportunities. Reuters says, the main streets, notting hill carnival holidays will have more than 300 restaurants offer Caribbean flavor of food, including curry mutton and Jamaica flavor roast chicken, etc.
Police Storm
Facing European's largest mardi gras, British police don't dare snub in two days, plan activities during the deployment of thousands of police officers to ensure safety carnival held.
Notting Hill Carnival ,held in 1976 during riots happened in 2000, with the two men in the carnival killed in the violence.
Police said, in order to avoid such events, the city of London police will repeat any time guarantee in activities, while hundreds of police patrol 24 hour uninterrupted, buttheir police shift number will achieve 1.1 million.
On the opening in the carnival, police arrested 13 attempt to participate in hundreds of suspects, another 21 people were arrested in five days.
In addition, police were still within London subway stations near the carnival activities sites set up metal detection devices, in order to prevent potential snoop carry knives or guns stir-up-trouble.
Set: Medical Unions Borrow Carnival in Protest
The British media 26 reported that the British national health service system (NHS) employees plan to launch its own during the activity, from southern floats the employee personally wear bright costumes "cruise", the communication to the public of "let NHS continue" information, to protest against the government plans to let private enterprises to participate in the NHS operation practice.
Britain's largest medical unions "harmonious union" President Karen Jennings said, NHS staff hope for NHS celebration by carnival, and remind people remember NHS provide them with good service.

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