One of the good types
in the custom is Culture. It’s where we original came from and as well as that
country of our birth. On the other hand, there is a type of activity called
tradition. This is what our family and our culture have done for a long
time. However, traditional culture contains of
the two things beliefs and practices which detained and observed by exact human
groups whom have been approved down from their families within their
grandparents, parents and the society. Religion it is holding or observing
certain events. Within a public it is performing or acting in a manner that has
been frequently completed in the previous in that particular part of the
universal. For example, we could say that human sacrifices were part of
the traditional culture of the celebrating Aid Aladha is part of the Arabic
traditional culture. However, before we came
to USA I though that the language is the only boundary among the American
people and us. But since we learned the English language, we realized that
there are a lot of differences between our cultures. Although, there are many
similarly among culture such as Middle Eastern culture have a unique way of
life’s style than other culture. There are many different cultures around the
world like in their events, food, social life, clothes, habits and manner.
The
events and food are one of the great traditional cultural that any one in the
world is like to do. For example, in Saudi Arabia they do have celebration days
every year that it makes them really happy which it called Aid Alfeter. It’s
the first celebration after the religious month, which is Ramdan. So, these tow
different kinds of the celebrating are part of the Saudi traditional cultural.
In Aid Alfater, Muslims people are starting their Aid by praying and after that
they will began their celebration by visiting each other and eat a different
sort of candies and breakfast. So, every one has to forgive people whom had a
problem with. Furthermore, our food in the Aid Alfeter, we are eating a
distinctive sort of food such as Depyasa. Its one of the greatest meal every
family in Saudi Arabia has to do it. However, her in U.S.A, they do have a different
celebration in 14th of November, which called Thanksgiving. It is
like sacrificing one of the Turkey to their Gad. Also, they cook a lot of food
and invite their friends and family to join their meals. The most important
meal in this day is the Turkey. They also make a mush potato, beef with its
dressing, and some vegetables. Moreover, all Christens religious wherever they
are in every year have to celebrate their Christmas days. In these days, all
Christens people are decorate their house and get to buy many gifts to each
other to celebrate their days. Besides, every Fourth of July, American people
celebrate their independence from Britain, with the help of the French army in
1776. In each city in U.S.A they do the biggest fireworks there. Lastly, in Saudi
Arabia also every year they are celebrating the Saudi national day, is
celebrated in Saudi Arabia
on every 23th of September.
This day is the
nation's identity and is greatly related with the union of Saudi’s Kingdom by
the late king Abdulaziz ben Saud
in the year 1932. In this day King Abdulaziz holds an important places in the
History of Saudi Arabia. 23th of September is one of the Public holidays in
Saudi Arabia by our government as they observed it. However, this is a
traditional culture in some country, but some of the countries do not celebrate
it.
"Traditions
give you a sense of family and they give you a sense of belonging to a group of
people, not being alone in the world," The social life is one of the
things that affect its can and us affect the society in many ways. There are
many differences between the counters and their social daily life. Lets take
compere United States and the Middle East and lets see what are the differences
between them. Most of the people in the world know that there are many vitamins
that help us to live our life in a good health. In the Arabic Middle East there
is a magical vitamin that can help you to live a good life and its can help you
to get out from the troubles even if the trouble with the government! . This
vitamin we call it in my country vitamin “W”. W referee to word in Arabic
called “Waste”, and this word means instrumentation. You can get this vitamin
from your family your friends and from anyone you know. At the same time, you
can get a good job by this vitamin, even when you are not good for this job.
One the other hand, here in United States the social life can help you to get a
good job but as my American friend told me you should be good in this job to
get it. There is another deference’s between Arabic culture and between
American cultures in the social life. This deference is the relationship
between the guys and the girls. In must of the Arabic countries, having a
relation’s between the guys and the girls isn’t a usual thing, because of the
Arabic traditions. But on the other hand, in the United States of America,
having a relationship with a girl is a usual thing. For example, there is no
problem if a guy has a girl as a friend.
There
are many differences between cultures in clothing. Some of these are following
their religion or governments in the type of clothing. Also, there are some
people who follow their traditional with their clothing. There are many
differences between American culture and Arabic culture. In United State of
America there is no special kind of clothing that they use unless in the official
occasion such as wedding. They wear the suit. In the normal day people (male
and female) in the USA uses shorts and shirts to spend their normal day. In their
work they wear the suits or jeans. On the other hand, when we talk about Arabic
culture, people wear the traditional kind of clothes for everything, which is
called “Dishdashah” for men and “Abaya” for women. Dishdashah and Abaya are a
special kind of clothes in Arabic culture especially in The Arabian Gulf. They
use it for every occasion because this is our tradition. In the daily life
people use it because they feel comfortable with this kind if clothes.
Moreover, in their work some of governmental companies that requires this kind
of clothes. In addition, in Saudi Arabia Dishdashah is required for the male
students to entrench the traditions of Arabic culture. In Iran, The females
should ideally cover the hair on a woman’s head, but in Arabic culture Hijab is
a thing you can choose if you want to wear it or not. Furthermore, in USA
people wear whatever they want, but in Arabic culture people should wear a
clothes that cover some places in their body and this part of our religion.
Each culture has their own way of tradition and this make them unique in their
choices.
The
social life is one of the things that affect its can and us affect the society
in many ways. There are many differences between the counters and their social
daily life. Lets take compere United States and Kuwait and lets see what are
the differences between them. Most of the people in the world know that there
are many vitamins that help us to live our life in a good health. In Kuwait
there is a magical vitamin that can help you to live a good life and its can
help you to get out from the troubles even if the trouble with the government!
. This vitamin we call it in my country
vitamin “W”. W referee to word in Arabic called “Waste”, and this word means
instrumentation. You can get this vitamin from your family your friends and
from anyone you know. At the same time you can get a good job by this vitamin,
even wen you are not good for this job. One the other hand, here in United
States the social life can help you to get a good job but as my American friend
told me you should be good in this job to get it.
Every
society has their own social life style. Weather, place and religion are taking
a really big part in forming the way that how does a group of people live in a
certain place. Starting from where I came and ending here in the U.S, the
social life in the Middle Eastern communities is totally different than here in
the U.S. In My society, our manners and traditions are taken from our religion
and our religion is controlling our societies. therefore, people life style is
entirely different than here. In the U.S people are from different cultures,
from different countries even there languages are different. However, they made
there own life style when they become an American’s. When I came to the U.S I
noticed a lot of differences between here and there. For example, it is formal
here for any one who becomes 17 or 18 years old to leave his family house and
create his own life even sometimes his family force him to do that, in my
country the situation is totally different. Everyone has to be with his family
until death and that written in our book which is “Quran” that if we sever the
relationship between our family members God will banish us, and that’s doesn’t
mean that we can’t live our separately and independence life, we can have our
own life but next to our families. Also, one of my own experiences in social
life differences that happened to me when I lived here, my Mexican friend who
lived with me while am preparing to apply for CSUN was a very close friend to
me, I usually used to eat my dinner and lunch with my family so here when I was
with him I always bring food for me and him so he always feel like he owe me
something, it is something usual and formal in my country but here people are
different.
To
sum up, any group of people who lives together year after a year many decades ago
they will create a new life style. Moreover, people in their nature are
rechargeable; they used to be like that since this world has been created.
Clothing which is one of the big thing that made a different in culture is one
of the thing that we really can noticed easily, also the way people are
celebrating their events in each country is different, the name of the events,
the custom that they used to wear, also the purpose of the events is different.
On other hand, the differences in religions are taking a really big part in
these differences in life style. Manners and traditions is changing people
behaviors in life which is totally will change the social life style. The
social life style that we created dependents on religion and on the place so
people in different places are different. In the very end, nowadays the world
becomes a small village with the social networks on the internet, so people
have a good chance to learn from each other to make it easy for anyone to live
anywhere in this world by exchanging information watching videos, photos and
reading anything about cultures and from my side I started to learn about other
cultures since I came to the U.S. I really advice everybody to learn and to do
there best to know about this world much more than they knew.
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