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**Name:** Iskander

**Culture:** Sunni Muslim

**Language:** The Uyghur speak a variation of the Turkic language. The language that they speak is Uyghur Turkic. In the Uyghur Turkic they have a thing called vowel harmony which limits which vowels can be put beside each other in words. The language was heavily influenced by Arabic and Persian and more recently by Russian and Mandarin Chinese.

**Beliefs:** The religion, most of the uyghur follow a folk islam mixed with superstition, but today most of the uyghur confess to being muslim but there was also a time in history where most of the Uyghur were christian.The Uyghur believe in a ritual when burying the dead.What they do is the wash the body of the dead and they dress them in all white burial clothing.The body would then be carried to the mosque ( a place of worship for followers of islam ) where the funeral rights would be conducted. They would then go to the place of burial and place the body in a tomb. The entrance would be sealed and prayers would be said and the ritual would be complete. They believe that men and women are both equal and that if a female wants to go do something they are allowed to do it no one will stop them. **Behaviors:**are things such as painting pictures of the Buddha surrounded by figures of indians persians and Europeans. The men also shave their heads and wear a hat. The Uyghur have many dances that they do on special occasions such as Dolan dances, sama, plate dancing and stone beat dancing. These dances are mainly about head and wrist movements and expresing feelings and character.

**How would these be benifical in the role of a Global Ambassador**? These could help because of such things like the uyghur believing that men and women are equal. This would allow them to better understand both sides of things where as if a group belived that men had supreme power they could possibly favor the males arguement. Also having changed religion the uyghur could have a better undaerstanding of why certain people believe and do certain things.

**Culture related challenges**: While the uyghur have around eight million people located in china there are not many other places that the uyghur are located. While they may be able to communicate briefly to people who speak Arabic, Persian, Russian, or Mandarin Chinese it would not be enough to get them through. They would have a very hard time communicating with the other people.

Project, Joshua. "Uyghur Man." JPG file.
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