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==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
Huadaoic is a cosmopolitan culture which has been noted to readily accept new cultural innovations from arrivals abroad. Huadaoic culture is generally regarded to be a {{wp|melting pot}} of [[Levantia|Levanto]]-[[Occidental]] cultural traditions with those of eastern and southern [[Audonia]]. Huadaoic culture traces its roots to the large number of foreign workers brought to the island during its earliest years as a guano mine, with workers imported both from Levantia as well as from the Audonian mainland. Both groups brought their traditions with them and interacted on a daily basis in-and-out of the mines, sharing cuisine, social mores, and other cultural hallmarks. In the process, this worker interaction created new cultural traditions incorporating elements from both Levantia and East Audonia. | Huadaoic is a cosmopolitan culture which has been noted to readily accept new cultural innovations from arrivals abroad. Huadaoic culture is generally regarded to be a {{wp|melting pot}} of [[Levantia|Levanto]]-[[Occidental]] cultural traditions with those of eastern and southern [[Audonia]]. Huadaoic culture traces its roots to the large number of foreign workers brought to the island during its earliest years as a guano mine, with workers imported both from Levantia as well as from the Audonian mainland. Both groups brought their traditions with them and interacted on a daily basis in-and-out of the mines, sharing cuisine, social mores, and other cultural hallmarks. In the process, this worker interaction created new cultural traditions incorporating elements from both Levantia and East Audonia. | ||
The culture of Huadao is generally accepted to be highly casual and informal, with various degrees of prestigious title, fashion, etc. viewed as social taboo. Most scholars believe this emerged from the working class attitude of the earliest guano miners on the island combined with the need of that cohort to dispense with formalities when communicating with their fellow Audonian laborers. As the Audonians integrated into Huadaoic society, they also likely implanted their own views of civil and social authority (many of them being religious refugees) on Huadaoic culture, leading to many of the values held on Huadao today. Accordingly, the people of Huadao are known to favor {{wp|egalitarian}} views on class and status. Most, but not all, people on Huadao generally appear to make an exception for the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] clergy, who retain a place of honor within Huadaoic society as is the case in [[Levantia]]. | |||
===Sports=== | |||
Huadao's primary form of sport is the Tri-City Regatta, a sailboat-racing league which holds competitions every Saturday from May to October, with specific weekends in June and July exempted due to stormy conditions. The league is composed of three teams with a varying number of boats per team, with each team representing the three municipalities of Flower City, New Coria, and Hookshead. The Regatta generally circles the island twice, with special events including additional laps. The Regatta is a central event in Huadaoic cultural life, with most businesses (except bars) shutting down between the hours of 1 PM to 4 PM to accomodate spectators. Throughout Huadao, large {{wp|bleachers}} are erected throughout the Regatta season, allowing most of the island's population to watch. Most Huadaoic people are extremely invested in their particular Regatta team, and sense of municipal pride is closely tied in with Regatta team support. | |||
[[File:Rangers-em-regata.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Tri-City Regatta in October 2030.]] | |||
===Cuisine=== | ===Cuisine=== | ||
Huadaoic cuisine reflects the island's primarily Levantine cultural heritage with modifications based on the presence of people of Audonian backgrounds. Most prominently, {{wp|rice}} has been eaten on the island in large quantities supplanting bread and other wheat-derived products since its earliest days, a fact that was heavily commented on by late 19th- and early 20th-century observers. | Huadaoic cuisine reflects the island's primarily Levantine cultural heritage with modifications based on the presence of people of Audonian backgrounds. Most prominently, {{wp|rice}} has been eaten on the island in large quantities supplanting bread and other wheat-derived products since its earliest days, a fact that was heavily commented on by late 19th- and early 20th-century observers. | ||