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United Arab Emirates Culture 2
Language 3
Emirati People 4
Dress 5
Marriage, Family 6
Religion 6
Sports 6
Social stratification 7
Economy: 7
Future expected changes 8
Bibliography 8

United Arab Emirates Culture The culture of UAE is both rich and interesting from the early history of this territory and people, but instant changes are continuously being observed by the time of oil discovery and from the influence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and immigrants. A few decades ago UAE was consisted of vast pieces of deserts where Bedouin tribes were living peacefully in fishing villages and vast deserts. Culture of Emirates was originated from Arabs and Persian culture and name of UAE culture is Emirati in Arab it is called in Arabic, Al-Thaqafa Al-Emaratiya. UAE culture is strongly influenced by its region and environment having terrains, deserts, oasis, beaches and dedicated traditional lifestyle grown over time periods. With the passage of time and modernization tribal system has been converted to large big cities mud houses into luxury apartments and houses but traditions, values, norms, religion, language and ethics are still deep inside rooted among UAE nationals. Traditional food was meat of goat, sheep and camel, other food items in daily routine were rice, bread, fish dates and homegrown vegetables. Life in north and east mountains was different from the sandy territories in terms of clothes, food but way of business was same among adjacent of coastline by doing trade through sea.

Language Arabic is the official language of UAE but English is second language which is used in schools, universities, Commerce and trade.
Emirati People There is great ethnicity among people of Arab originated from Arabian, Persian civilizations. Emirati leadership is in hands of Bani Yas, Al Nahyan and Al Maktoum families;
Emirati is derived from two adjacent cultures Persian and Arabian respectively. There is also a great influence of Europe, East Africa



Bibliography: http://www.uaeinteract.com/culture/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates http://www.uae-embassy.ae/Embassies/uk/Links/599 http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/United-Arab-Emirates.html http://www.government.ae/en/web/guest/culture http://visitabudhabi.ae/en/explore/culture.and.heritage.aspx

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