There are many different wedding traditions around the world, depending on the culture and religion that one belongs to. Each culture around the world has its own traditions, some of which us Americans may consider unusual. Weddings usually happen when two people are joined and presented as one. Different cultures have certain traditions that separate them from others, such as the breaking of a glass in the Jewish communities by the groom symbolizing the joy in which must be untempered. It is also a reminder of the great Temple in Jerusalem. However, in India the Bride and her female friends decorate their hands and feet in Henna, called Menhdi. Those belonging to the Vietnamese and Kenyan communities have many cultural wedding traditions, making them unique from others. While most weddings that Americans are familiar involve two individuals uniting as one and most times starting a family of their own beginning with having children. These are two significantly different cultures that show their differences that separate them from other cultures, starting with their own traditional proposal.…
Target Audience:This essay will apply to many people, specifically those who are born in Canada with parents who have immigrated from another country. “Are You Persian?,” is a humorous piece which explores the blending of two different cultures. In particular, children born in western countries with immigrant parents. However, it is not limited to one group of people, many people could share my experiences through their friends. Through examples and short stories the reader can develop a greater understanding of the Afghan culture. In addition, the piece addresses misconceptions about the Afghan culture. Although this piece speaks about the Afghan culture where readers can connect to my experience by relating similarities they have experienced in their homes.…
For most cultures marriage was an act that was done as a necessity. Couples married because they needed to reproduce and ensure that their family continued to have money and power. The romance of marriage did not exist and it was discouraged in most cultures for the couples to fall in love before marriage. Most marriages were arranged by the family, the couples did not marry because of being in love.…
Afghan and Australian cultures differ from each other to quite an extent. They can be thought of as opposite sides of a coin which share no direct similarities or are in any way related. The Australian view of correct etiquette and decorum contrasts significantly with that of the Afghan society which is based and derived from their religion, Islam.…
A wedding is one of the most colourful and important ceremonies in all of Hinduism. Usually, Most Hindu marriages are arranged by the parents, although the children must also be happy with their chosen partner. During the ceremony marriage vows and promises are made around a sacred fire. The couple walk around the sacred fire four times. At the end of a Hindu wedding ceremony, the bride and groom take seven steps together around the sacred fire. These steps are the most significant action in a Hindu wedding. For each step they share a promise and a hope. Each promise or hope is about something they believe is really important and will help them have a happy marriage. The couple are blessed by the elders and the priest. Now the couple is bonded for life, their union sanctified. Overall, a marriage is considered as a rite of passage because a marriage makes a new family, marriage starts a brightening new life, marriage brings happiness to the new life, marriage…
Initially, marriage ceremonies were typically simple before the 20th century. In fact, people normally held a small ceremony for themselves and simply had the community come and observe it, so that they could be may bear witness. More recently however, a law was passed that required people to marry under a certain set of laws. With that, the true ceremonies begins with an officiant directing them through the process.. To begin, the man and wife’s hands are tied together with ribbon. This is typically done by the guests at the wedding. The different colors of ribbons represented different things.…
Culture shapes our character, personality, and behavior. The culture influence our concept of right and wrong, define what is appropriate and acceptable, and forge our moral, values, traditions, and beliefs. Imigration impacts the individual behavior based on the effect of culture in our behavior. When a person imigrate, the individual does not only expose itself to a different environment but to a different culture with its own set of rules and values. This change provoke an conflict caused by the adaptation process where the individual only accepts the traditions and beliefs of the new culture that are defined as acceptable within the judgement derived from the old culture.…
Throughout the first chapter, what I found most interesting were the relationships and differences between the newly arrived aliens and the natives of what is now the United States. The two recognized each other as of the same species, but most of the communication efforts between the two were futile. The language of the new comers differed significantly. They had an oral dialogue and written communication, which the natives understood nothing of. I find it most interesting, because I have ancestors that trace back to both the natives and the new comers.…
Afghan culture is present in the novel in many ways. In Afghanistan, the man’s father asks the woman’s father for her hand in marriage. One way this culture is shown is when Amir wants to marry…
Every nation has different traditions that they follow by. For example, in the essay “The Arab World”, Edward T. Hall acknowledges that “the form of the home is such as to hold the family together inside a single protective shell, because Arabs are deeply involved with each other”(266). In Islamic culture there are many different traditions. One being that when someone gets married in the Islamic culture the wedding lasts not for one day, but three days. In American culture, weddings are typically one day. This just goes to show that many traditions are involved when identifying a…
Marriage all around the world happens at different time in everyone’s lives. Some people marry young while some people wait to marry until they are older and wiser. Some people around the world do not meet their spouse until they walk down the aisle. More commonly in todays age many individuals are marrying someone of the same sex. People also may experience divorce. Marriage happens in many ways.…
All people are similar to each other by physically; eventhough, we are different from each other by where you born. Indeed, the US and Mongolia are located far from each other ; they have many similarities. For example, both US and Mongolia have huge land and many varies of climate and landscape. Due to large size, varies across the large country from tropical beaches to Alaska while Mongolia have many different places from Gobi desert to peaks in the Altai Mountain. In contrast, because of the culture and geographic position, they are very different from each other in many ways. From those many disdissimilarities, there are 2 significant contrasts for especially someone…
There was a world of difference between the two cultures , Europeans and Native American.…
In Afghanistan, there are many ethnic groups among whom segregation exists. Imagine being a part of one that’s really looked down upon. The life of that person would be so cruel that nobody would be able to even imagine the misery and the pain that they have to endure. Afghanistan is a country with immense diversity due to the different ethnic groups that it has had for a very long time. Despite living in the same country for hundreds of years, they have their own ways of living and what’s interesting is that there is discrimination among them due to the social class differences that exits in the Afghanistan society today. In the novel The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseni shows through the character of Amir, Hassan and Baba that the social differences of the ethnicities (Pashtuns and Hazaras) have made huge differences in their lives and has also led to the fading away of the moral codes that have been honored in their society for a long period of time.…
The American and Indian cultures have so many differences in family’s relationships. Even though Indians are more familiar but Americans are unfamiliar with their lifestyle at some stages. In Indian culture mostly they will give more importance to their family values other than individual values. On the other hand in American culture, they will not show importance to their family values but they will give more priority to the individual values. While Indians give more importance to their family members but Americans look after themselves. Moreover, Indians will always think about their families even though they are at any place but the American lifestyle, it will not work. Every time Indians are dependent on others. The children’s in the United…