UNESCO protects not only a beautiful building. Since 2003, there is the intangible world cultural heritage. Most recently, the tango is on the list.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site is a permanent institution. UNESCO would like to protect and preserve the heritage of humanity and. In 2003 it was believed that man expresses culture not only in the form of large and beautiful buildings. We not only culture, we make culture. We are Entertainment. Therefore, since there is the "intangible world cultural heritage". It protects all forms of culture that can not touch you. These include customs, languages, music or crafts.
UNESCO maintains a so-called "list of masterpieces." Then there are ninety samples, which show "the diversity of the facets of human cultures." All that is mentioned on this list, officially and intangible World cultural heritage - and therefore most worthy of protection. The tenor singing the Sardinian pastoral culture in Italy is mentioned, but also the mask dance of the drums from Drametse in Bhutan. The goal is clear: cultural diversity must be preserved.
has now expanded to the UNESCO list of four cultural expression. Three of them are the Dragon Boat Festival in China, the Holy Blood Procession in Bruges, Belgium, and the Indonesian batik technique - where the hippies would have known that.
newcomer is now the most famous tango. End of the 19th Century was the "vertical expression of a horizontal desire" (Daily Telegraph) in South America. To this day, be an integral part of rhythm the culture. The North has also come to the taste: Finland is a passionate tango nation. The people like to dance it in minor keys, while the major South American protected prefer. But probably the legacy of the better preserved, in which it is adapted so as create new if it is cast in acrylic and stone.
114 nations have signed the Agreement on the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Germany by the way yet, because who is to determine the worth protecting at all festivals, culture or crafts? What is at all representative of a country? Austria is the other hand, since 9 July 2009 party and so could be called the Käsknöpfle Wekltkulturerbe also protected.
But the problem remains the same as already in the monument. What can and should be protected in a world of rapid change? Even the word Heritage points out: Who would make his inherited wealth in a glass box and keep it there as a monument?
heritage is something that works from the past to the future and creates new.
The world is seen as a museum not only conservatism but has something of a chilliastischen Weltungangsstimmung. Archaeologists and historians of the green, the little man will one day end up here are to find traces of us. Therefore would also Käsknöpfle and Wiener schnitzel, Drum pigeons and Radio Guild, sauerkraut and Tyrolean Gröstl, Riebel and Surer cheese, yes hammer and sickle, yogurt cups and Tetra-Pak strongly add to the world cultural heritage.
Would be terrible if all the children of the green little man some day in their school as a story of a defunct planet did not have to learn?
Source:
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
