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Monday, April 18, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Festival of Nations lets students sample cultures
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
About 500 people had an opportunity to see the world Saturday without a passport or an expensive airline ticket.
The annual Festival of Nations,
sponsored by the KU International
Club, offered many of the sights,
and offers places in the lobby of McColum Hall.
Music from India, China and Pakistan blended with the aroma of incense and spices and the sounds of many foreign tongues to create a pleasant and exotic discordant harmony.
Imad Hammoud, Beirut, Lebanon, graduate student and the club president, said, "The main purpose of the event is to provide an atmosphere of interaction between American and foreign cultures.
"We want American students to know the world is not just the United States, hamburgers and hot dogs."
Students from countries all over Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America, dressed in native garb as well as University of Kansas Jayhawk T-shirts, proudly shared their cultural heritage by displaying items they had brought from their home countries.
The display set up by French students included fashion magazines, lacy underwear, perfume, French bread and cheese, and Perrier.
"We've tried to include everything that Americans think about when they think of France," said Dominique Juif, Valentigney, France, graduate student.
"We hope that when Americans see this display they will want to know more about France and maybe visit there." she said.
Maria Pelava, Limassol, Cyprus, junior, said she thought the festival was good because U.S. students could find out about the whole world. Pelava said that Cyprus, a Mediterranean island near Turkey, had the same language and culture as Greece.
"we want people to know who we are." Pelava said.
Each display also offered, for the price of a 30-cent ticket, samplings of native dishes, such as tabouli, a salad of tomatoes, wheat and parsley, and homos, a spiced paste of garbanzo beans from Lebanon; and Dutch apple and cherry pie from the Netherlands.
For the first time in the 34 years of the festival, U.S. students also had a display, Hammond said. He said he anticipated even bigger and better U.S. dislaws in future years.
Hammond said that foreign students could contribute to U.S. culture by their interaction with this country's citizens.
"We also have something good from our cultures we can provide," he said.
Members of the KU India club, Priti Srivastava, left, Lawrence senior, and Pallavika Patel, Lawrence senior, greet visitors at their display at the Festival of Nations.
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