My Reflection about My Big Fat Greek Wedding movie.

My reflection about My Big Fat Greek Wedding movie.

The movie is 1:30 minutes, It was funny and interesting.

The first thing I recognized about Greek that It is very important that their daughter, sister or any girl in the family get married. Also, she must marry from Greek!

Greek have to go to Greek school.

In the movie they show that no specific time for men to get married but girls should get married as fast as it is possible.

They only thing they want from women is making babies!

In Greek " The man may be the head of  the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases."

 Greek also believe that they are the best and everybody else wishes they are Greek.

Something the father repeated many times is "The origin of all words is Greek."

The father feels shame because her daughter chooses not a Greek man.

They baptized the husband in a church to be Greek before he married a Greek girl.

In the wedding, the Parents give their daughter a gift in front all people.

My Reflection about Culture

My reflection about Culture

      What is culture? Are there many Kinds of culture? How many? These questions and more across my mind at the first week of our class. One year ago I suggested to one of my teachers in an English institute I studied in to open a culture class but the did not for some reason. The culture things interested me especially the formal things. Three weeks ago I had no idea what is the formal culture that I just said I am interested in. And In this class i learned more and more.

      We read, think, seek and do I will give an example for each one. We start our class on Monday by looking at The Red-eye searching for a topic interested us to read it and discuss it with the class or our group so, we read, think and speak. In the class, we all know many things about American culture, What about other cultures?! We have the chance to learn more about other culture by listing to our classmates explaining their Boster. Creating a boster might seems easy but it is not. I think we have to look for different types of posters and see what things are interested people and might be new to them we also have to write an explanation. so, we have to read, search, write, think and do at the same assignment. Moreover, We have read different kinds of reading such as reflection and poem. We also listing, speak and write so, I am sure that I improve my skills and the best part that I enjoyed everything I had done.

     Let's be more specific, The first reading we had was Introduction to Culture in this one we looked for the main idea, summarize each paragraph, looked for new words and underline the important ideas. Some of the new words were Inculturation, culture shock, Ethnocentrism, and Ethnographer.From that reading I learned what is culture and the four characteristics of culture.The second we drew the culture Iceberg while we are listing to lecture about The culture Iceberg then we complete a table for culture Iceberg. From this work, we learn the basic things such as The tree kinds of culture Formal, Informal and technical. In those papers we listening, writing, discuss and think. Moreover, we read the Reflection on Culture identity this one was hard for me but as my teacher says if it is too easy it is not helpful.

      However, My aha moment was when the teacher explain why American say Excuse me even if they do not touch you. Also, when I read the five stages of culture shock I understood why I had a different feeling when I came to the USA.

More fun and learn at the same time, We had a project using a movie to learn new things about other culture. Before this project, I did not know that I can learn that much from movies. Anymore, I will try to take notes and write new words from movies.

At the end, I confidently can say that now I can understand a little of the American actions.

Saudi Culture

Saudi Culture

           I choose five things I think they are interesting and very important in my culture. The firs thing is Islam, We have two Eids to celebrate. The first one is after Ramadan which is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. All Muslims adult have to fast in it from the sunrise to the sunset, except some cases such as patient and some travelers. We usually do not sleep in that day because in Ramadan the stores and restaurant open to 4 am so in Ramadan we usually sleep after the sunrise and wake up 4 or 5 hours far from sunset. That why it is hard to sleep the day before Eid al fiter to wake up early. Some people sleep the whole day! I do not like it I think that is cheating we have to fast at least 5 hours. The another Eid is Eid Al Hajj it is after Alhajj. I need more than 5 papers to explain that, simply it when Muslims done Alhajj in Makah.
           The second is Dressing. Women must wear abaya and hijab when she go out. Abaya is a black tall dress with long sleeves. In the past, it used to be black in black but nowadays it can be colorful. Hijab is like a scarf women use it to cover their hair. Some women cover their face too using the hijab or a cloth that covers the face as a part of sartorial hijab called niqab. Official dress of men is a long white dress with a scarf on their head called shemagh or ghutrah. The different is ghutrah is white and shemagh is red with white.
          The part I think everyone love Food in my city we have many meals that a lot of Saudi do not know such as Kabesa, Aseda, Sago, Afosa, Salona, ​​Mahmos and more. Usually, my grandmother cooks them. Moreover about food but now with family. In Saudi Arabia Family values ​​is one of the most important things for me family is the most important thing in my life. In my family usually, we have lunch together on Friday. After lunch, we talk about anything we want while we enjoy Arabic coffee and desserts. The last thing is Greeting, both men and women shook hands and kisses. As Muslims Men can not shake women hand if she is not his mother, sisters, aunts, grandmother, waif and his mother in low. The same thing for women, simply women can not touch any men she can marry so she can shake her father, brother, uncle, grandfather husband hand and her father in law.
Those were the five culture things I chose. I hope that I explained them clearly and you know more now about Saudi culture