Dating back thousands of years, Mardi Gras has been one of the Catholic Church’s most widespread and withstanding traditions. Also known as Carnival or Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras is “a lively and colorful” event celebrated by Catholics preceding the Lenten season in February. While its intentions are presumably religious and spiritual, the meaning behind Mardi Gras has vastly changed since its establishment and is now strongly associated with wild debauchery and gluttony. Considering its roots and original
Mardi Gras, often referred as fat Tuesday is a festival that is held each year by Louisiana Creole people in New Orleans. This festival is known to be culturally rich since it is a mix of European, American and Italian culture. The culture of this festival is dynamic where it's been changing with time. Initially, the festival was fully under the influence of the catholic culture where Italian Catholics celebrated the festival as part of their catholic heritage. However, this culture has changed due
Research and Background The ritual of Mardi Gras has its roots in many different cultures. This ritual has been celebrated in a very concentrated region of Nacirema located north of the body of water “Gulf of the Land of Maize.” Although this ritual is celebrated to some degree in selected Nacirema cities of this region, the epicenter of this ritual and its strange customs is the city that straddles the end of the big river Ojibwe. This city is “Crescent City.” Once per year in the third month