Cultural Differentities In Kazakh Customs, Customs, And Traditions

Although Kazakhs in many instances take pride in that they have homogeneous customs and traditions across all regions of Kazakhstan, through talks and discussions with people from different regions one can identify that there are not so evident variances in patterns of celebrations and general attitudes for different traditions of people from different parts of Kazakhstan. The specific to regions attitudes towards tois, big familial celebrations and festivals, such as weddings, jubilees, as well as celebration of any happy news or events that people regard as worthy enough to celebrate, for instance, result in differences in the scope and quality of celebrations in respective regions. The existing literature does not analyse the reasons why
(Werner, p131) In order to keep a certain status families may ask interest-free loans from their relatives and friends, sell their livestocks, and even borrow money from the banks. (Dittrich, p303) Indeed, knowing these cultural peculiarities the local banks have even issued special “toi-credits”, short-term loans for celebration of tois. (“Deputaty”) The situation in other words could be described as tois being an investment to social and cultural capital, but with possible negative implications in the form of financial debts. The attitude towards tois then, one may argue, depends on the people’s perception about loss and gains, opportunities and threats from celebration of that
The prices of imported goods such as fruits, alcohol, decorations etc. have largely increased, thereby raising the costs of toi celebrations. With the current bad economic situation in the country it is expected that there will notable changes in both quantity and quality of how tois are celebrated. Since there is no reliable data on tois’ expenses, and since the first “season of tois”, that is summer and autumn, is just yet to come any predictions about those changes before that time will be just