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The moro-moro was a street drama from the Philippines that lasted several days and depicted battles between Christians and Moors (Muslims) through comedic sketches. While once an integral part of Filipino culture, it is rarely performed today due to insensitive depictions of religious intolerance. Cockfighting was a popular blood sport and pastime in the Philippines for gambling and entertainment, typically involving fights to the death between specially bred roosters. Though controversial, advocates argue it is an important cultural tradition. The Negrito people of northern Philippines enjoy music and dancing, making crude instruments from bamboo and cane and performing dances that imitate aspects of their lifestyle and work.

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Moro

The moro-moro was a street drama from the Philippines that lasted several days and depicted battles between Christians and Moors (Muslims) through comedic sketches. While once an integral part of Filipino culture, it is rarely performed today due to insensitive depictions of religious intolerance. Cockfighting was a popular blood sport and pastime in the Philippines for gambling and entertainment, typically involving fights to the death between specially bred roosters. Though controversial, advocates argue it is an important cultural tradition. The Negrito people of northern Philippines enjoy music and dancing, making crude instruments from bamboo and cane and performing dances that imitate aspects of their lifestyle and work.

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moro-moro, it is a street drama that usually lasted for several days, and presented both secular themes

like love and vengeance, and the Spanish-influenced religious theme of the conflict between Christians
and Moors. The moro-moro only survives in isolated towns today, and though an integral part of Filipino
art history, it may not bear too much close scrutiny these days with its less than admirable depictions of
intolerance.

The function of moro moro is to portrayed as perpetual villains who always lost to Christians in the end.
It depicts battles, in a rather comedic way, between Christians and Moros as Muslims in the Philippines
prefer to be called.

Cockfighting is a centuries-old blood sport in which two or more specially bred birds, known as
gamecocks, are placed in an enclosed pit to fight, for the primary purposes of gambling and
entertainment. A typical cockfight can last anywhere from several minutes to more than half an hour
and usually results in the death of one or both birds.

Cockfighting was continued to be the favorite sports, it was quite unfortunate, though, the cockfighting
ceased to be a sport when the Filipino farmer had to spend most of his time caring for his favorite cock,
and to stake his worldly goods on the issue of a single combat. It is probable, 19 historians agree, that
this was caused by the fact that cockfighting has been made a source of revenue for the royal treasury.
The function of this cockfighting, is to advocates of the "age old sport” often list cultural and religious
relevance as reasons for perpetuationof cockfighting as a sport.

The Negrito living in the mountains of Batan, Zambales, and Tarlac are found to be fond of music and
dancing. They possess crude musical instruments made of bamboo and mountain cane with abaca fibers
and played like a violin. Among their dances are imitative of their way of life, such as “Juan Camote”
performed by a man going of stealing camotes in the field.

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