Sunday, June 12, 2011

Friendships From Other Cultures

by:Alya


Friendships From Other Cultures

            Having friends from other cultures is better than only having friends from own culture. Everyone knows that life has became more difficult, and that world has became more connected. For example, it is very easy to see people from other countries with different customs and traditions in one day. If the people do not have relations with other societies, they may do not knows how they can deal and connect with other people, which make them commit embarrassing situations. When someone has friendships from different countries, it may contribute to learning about new cultures and languages that will help to expand the circle of social relation, also to transfer of cultures and beliefs. In addition, making friendships from other countries is very important to understand and respect other communities. Also making friendships help people to know how their cultures were affected on their lifestyle. On the other hand, making friends from different societies have an influence to improving the future.

            First of all, making friendships from other countries will help people to learning new cultures and societies. For instance, when I came to United States, at English school, I met a lot of students from different nationalities, such as Brazilian, Turkish, Asian, and European. I was interested in learning about their societies and their way of  life. Moreover, they always asked me about my culture, and they thought my culture is very strange, and sometime they could not understand it. I am happy about that and I like anyone want to ask me, also I know and respect how they people interested to know and learn about other. In addition, if the people passion for learning about other cultures, they do not need to travel and go to watch, the easiest way to learn other communities is making foreign friendships. People will learn about many things such as, traditional food, clothes, and dancing. To illustrate this, I have friend from Brazil, she did not know anything about Arabic culture and I did not know anything about Brazilian culture too, so we always talk with each other and ask some interesting questions, also I invited her to try Arabic food and she like it a lot, and she invited me at her house which she live with American  family to spent Thanks Giving day with them, I went there and I ate turkey with them with some Brazilian dishes, and I brought with me Arabic coffee with dates. Also, there was old woman she was talking about that day and why they celebrate. We spent that day to exchange our experiences talking and asking. I enjoyed and it was beautiful experience to me. In short, making friendships from other countries  is very important to learning new cultures and communities that will help people to develop and expand their information.

            Making friendships from other societies is very beneficial to understand other cultures. All countries around the world have different ways and special ritual. The people who want to visit different society need to learn and understand about their customs and traditions, so as not to commit mistakes that make people feel embarrassed. For example, I always have an embarrassing situation with United States people, and I cannot shake hands with male that what I learned in my religion and my culture, but that very common and normal here which making me feel embarrassed when someone wants to shake my hands.  Because I have a lot of friends like my classmate and my teachers, they understand my culture and they became never shake my hand once again. Another example about how is making friendship important to understand other culture, According to Ezinearticles.com “in Thailand it is rude to enter a person’s house with your shoes on, and equally rude to cross your legs when sitting. Therefore, pointing your toes at someone." when I talked with some friends about that they were agree and they gave me reasons to understand that ideas. In summary, friendships from other countries are useful to understand and accommodate customs and traditions of others.

            Making friendships from other environments may affect to improve people's future. When people expanded social relations between them and other people that will help people to develop and change their life and future. They will learn many new languages and they will receive a lot of new skills. Through friendships people will change their look for the better, and will be able to distinguish between the kinds human beings, who is a good or bad person. In addition, making friendship from other countries is important to sharing experiences and expands knowledge; also people will learn principles of dialog and discussion. Moreover, they will learn how they respect the freedom and privacy of others. All these positive points will help people to be qualified to get a good position, able to carry responsibility, and they will have a successful future. To sum up, expand the circle of social relations, through making friends from different communities which will help to improve and develop the personality that may causes to a successful future.

            In conclusion, having friendships from other communities is very important than having  friendships from own country. Because of the openness and the spread of cultures

also the movement of people from country to country, It became important to configure the new social relations of different countries and communities. making friendships from other countries will help the people to learn more about other societies that it will help people to development of knowledge, beside that making friendships will contribute to understand and absorb the lifestyle of other communities, which help people to respect other cultures. Finally, through making friendships that will be strong factor to change human thought, and it will makes a successful person and help people to improve their future.

           

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