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Macau Culture
Traditional culture among the Chinese of Macau is by and large indistinguishable from that of Hong Kong. However, the Portuguese minority has a vastly different culture - one that has evolved under a number of different influences, including the Roman, Moorish, French, Spanish, Flemish and Italian cultures. Colonial Portuguese architecture survives throughout Macau, and Portuguese food is to be found in abundance.
Macanese culture is different again, with a unique cuisine, set of festivals and traditions, and even its own dialect or patois, called patua. The do (traditional woman's outfit) has long disappeared, though you may catch a glimpse of it at certain festivals.
Portuguese and Chinese - with Cantonese the more widely spoken dialect - are both official languages of Macau.
For the vast majority - more than 90% - of Macau Chinese people, Taoism and Buddhism are the dominant religions Four-and-a-half centuries of Portuguese Christian rule left its mark, however, and the Roman Catholic Church is very strong in Macau, with an estimated 30,000 (6.5% of the population) adherents. Macau consists of a single diocese, directly responsible to Rome.
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