Carnival in Asia?

Pictorial evidence suggests there is a holiday in some Asian nation where people parade around in shirts, loincloths, and footwear. Sometimes they are in the street, and sometimes they are by the edge of a body of water. No bead necklaces, though. 🙂

Anybody know what this is about?

St Patricks Day in Bali?

Originally posted by Kewpie
St Patricks Day in Bali?

Ha!

They look more Japanese than Balinese.

Here's a few choices:

http://www.earthcalendar.net/_php/lookup.php?mode=date&m=03&d=18&y=2013

Without seeing what you're seeing I can't do much better, I'm afraid.

Thanks for the research, Kewpie.

It may be something called the festival of Enoshina.

http://news.3yen.com/2007-01-22/japanese-butt-fest/

Originally posted by Paul Dirac II
Thanks for the research, Kewpie.

It may be something called the festival of Enoshina.

http://news.3yen.com/2007-01-22/japanese-butt-fest/

Quite interesting (though primitive by Western Standards). Thanks.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Quite interesting (though primitive by Western Standards). Thanks.

With something like the Enoshima festival, don't you mean "traditional"? What makes you use the word "primitive"?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Quite interesting (though primitive by Western Standards). Thanks.

A bit arrogant and patronising, don't you think? Unless you're referring to Halloween ...

Originally posted by FMF

With something like the Enoshima festival, don't you mean "traditional"? What makes you use the word "primitive"?

probably because this first viewing of an expressive foreign dance
presented an out of context stimuli which didn't quite fit immediately
within cultural norms & standards of the western hemispheric world
i've come to know coast to coast/canada to mexico, in some depth.

Originally posted by Kewpie
A bit arrogant and patronising, don't you think? Unless you're referring to Halloween ...

perhaps from your point of view, kewpie. simply gave
paul my candid impressions of a 'loin cloth butt fest'.

note: looked at another way, it's probably one of the last
events on earth i'd place near the top of my 'bucket list'.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Quite interesting (though primitive by Western Standards). Thanks.

Is Enoshima any more primitive than South Boston on St. Patrick's Day?

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Is Enoshima any more primitive than South Boston on St. Patrick's Day?

... dunno butt i've never been exposed to a 'loin cloth butt-festival'
in bahstan or its environs or @ the gridiron stadium in foxborough.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
probably because this first viewing of an expressive foreign dance
presented an out of context stimuli which didn't quite fit immediately
within cultural norms & standards of the western hemispheric world
i've come to know coast to coast/canada to mexico, in some depth.

You wear your parochial ethnocentrism on your sleeve then.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
perhaps from your point of view, kewpie. simply gave
paul my candid impressions of a 'loin cloth butt fest'.

note: looked at another way, it's probably one of the last
events on earth i'd place near the top of my 'bucket list'.

You think some sort of prudish sneering at a bit of semi-nudity is sophisticated - and thus not primitive, on your part - is that it?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
... dunno butt i've never been exposed to a 'loin cloth butt-festival'
in bahstan or its environs or @ the gridiron stadium in foxborough.

What's "bahstan"?

Is that like "Bongo Bongo Land" where the "fuzzy wuzzies" live?