This unit cover a lot of topic and for myself, the second half are more interesting. First we talked about decolonisation which for me is a big topic in heritage as I am grow up in Hong Kong, a British colony for hundreds years and more. For me, I think colonisation shape the culture of Hong Kong. We either not Chinese, nor British. We are the mixture of both. Of course, colonisation demolished a lot of traditional culture. For example, in a traditional Chinese music setting nowadays become like Orchestra, they have similar setup and they even have European instrument like cello in the performance. However, colonisation not always bad. Hong Kong is a good example. We were being colonised, therefore, we can be different from the socialist main land China and we become one of the wealthy city in east Asia in past few decade. Compare to how we were being treaded under communist Chinese government, the end to the colonies period were even better than present.
Indigeneity is an interesting topic where the first instrument I learned is djembe (a west African drum). When I was learning this instrument, I also learned a lot about their culture as every songs have their function and meaning. For example the song Toro (means pain) would play during the boys circumcision. For me, the indigenous culture always fascinate me where they always have the different perspective to see the world, no matter in music and sounds, all the social structure, mythology, etc. We are too used to European central and American way to see the world, which kind of set the ‘normal’.