The American Museum Of Natural History: Anthropology

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seen for a small price, but if one has the time
it is very educational and worth seeing.
In the hall of Asian Peoples the most intriguing exhibits was the
Chinese Wedding. It was very interesting to see how a different culture gets
married. In this wedding the Chinese bride sits in this beautiful bridal chair
from the groom's family that had carried her from her home. The bride now says
her good-byes to her own family because in the Chinese culture she is now part
of the grooms family. " Her impressive dowery, displayed by the procession on
the road , gives prestige to her family as the beauty of the bridal chair gives
prestige to the groom's." Prestige and honor are very important to the Chinese
culture and during an important event such as a wedding it is not unusual to
flaunt their prestige. To properly perform the dowry and the chair is a must.
In tradition Chinese culture the bride must be covered by a veil and the groom
never had seen her before he had removed the veil ...

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of the humans were shown though holographic pictures. These pictures did
show the whole body including the muscles and the bones. The evolution part of
this exhibit was very interesting. " We humans often think of ourselvess as the
culmination of a steady history of a evolutonary improvement. But this idea is
wrong, for evolution is neither goal-oriented nor merely a matter of species
gradual improving their adaptation to their environments. " This is an excelent
quote from the evolution exhibit. This quote explains in a simplistic idea on
how humans did evolutionize. Evolution is a long process that can happen for
many reasons. One way humans became the way they did was from a ...

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