If you don’t know where you are coming from, you will not know where you are going to. There is a realization that youths in multicultural communities are not pickup the core cultural aspects of their parents culture such as language, food, and music. South Sudanese Nuer Youth Association believes this needs action and made an effort on August 3, 2019, at Northmount Community Centre to organize and event to share their beautiful culture with youths from their community.
The youths shared their culture through beautiful dance performances, and practice the Nuer Language as well. The Nuer receive facial markings (called gaar) as part of their initiation into adulthood. Men from the Nuer tribe are instantly recognizable from their facial marks. The pattern of Nuer scarification varies within specific subgroups. The most common initiation pattern among males consists of six parallel horizontal lines which are cut across the forehead with a razor, often with a dip in the lines above the nose. Dotted patterns are also common (especially among the Bul Nuer and among females).
