Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1a) Using cultural autobiography, identifying the major influences on your life....................1b) Using cultural autobiography, recognising the main influences on someone life.............1c) Compare and contrast the two culture and explain its similarities and differences...........2CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION Intercultural is the exchange of culture information between two persons who belong todifferent cultural groups. It is something that arises among different culture of people whichincludes various religious groups or national origins. The main focus of this report is to addresstwo cultural values, beliefs, traditions and rituals of the Romania and Arabian persons. Alsoconduct questionnaire with two different culture individual and knowing their family living,understand their birth, death and weeding rituals (Bennett and Hammer, 2011). In this, projectalso evaluate the similarities and differences between two culture autobiography with the help ofrelevant theories.MAIN BODYa) Using cultural autobiography, identifying the major influences on your lifeThe culture of Romania sets itself different from others in the East European for sharecertain elements with them. It is a secular state and there is no specific state religion arefollowed. Romania is famous for religious country where huge majority of people belongs toChristian. The Romania culture teach that respect and regard the older people and neverdisrespect them. The popular religion of Romania country is Eastern Orthodox church which isone of the oldest culture. As a Romanian women, there are seven member in my family includingme. My nationality is Romanian. There are various traditions which has been followed by meand my family members as per the Eastern Orthodox religion. The daily activities of Romaniapeople starts with worship of god and after that they eat food. Along with this, there are somespecial occasion in my religion such as birth, death and wedding traditions which haveinfluences on the culture. All these rituals are performed by church priests in my Easternorthodox religion. In the birth ceremony, my family are tied red ribbon which save baby fromevil eye (Scollon, Scollon and Jones, 2011). In my religion weeding, various rituals are performby bride and groom which make them happy for future life. In the death custom, body is kept incasket and pries give the graveside funeral service along with family member. b) Using cultural autobiography, recognising the main influences on someone lifeArabian culture is the most pure, precious, valuable religion for the Muslim population.My friend and her family's nationality is Saudi Arabia. There are seven members including her inthe family. Their religion always says that “Allah is great”. The tradition of Islam is different1
from Romania in which birth ceremony is conducted after the seventh day of baby birth and theirMaulvi ties Taweez on child neck (Holliday, Hyde and Kullman, 2010). There are few rituals atthe time of Nikah in Islamic religion where both bride and groom are seated in separate groupand marriage is confirm after saying “Qubool Hai”. Along with this, my friend culture is totallydifferent in each manner. In the death custom, they are covered body with white sheet and fold it,after that the death body is transported to “Masjid” where Maulvi pray which is known as “Salatal-Janazah”. My friend family is follow Islamic culture which said “Belief in Allah as the oneand only god”. c) Compare and contrast the two culture and explain its similarities and differencesThese two cultures are totally different from each other and some points are similar atcertain end (Bird and et. al., 2010). Such as Romania involves Eastern Orthodox religion andArabian culture involves Islamic religion. There are various similarities and differences betweentwo culture which are described as under:Theory of reasoned action – It is a model which identify the origin in the specific area ofsocial psychology. This theory is link between values, beliefs, intentions, norms and behaviourof individual. It will help in identifying various person behaviour and attitude towards theirculture. Reasoned action of theory is used to recognised the differences among two cultureindividuals (Hammer, 2011). The attitude of a person towards determining behaviour, beliefs andvalues this theory used for identify differences on the basis of culture, behaviour and belief. Differences between Romania and Arabian culture:Basis Romania ArabianCulture My Romania culture is EasternOrthodox where people pray togod in the morning andafternoon only. In morning,the prayer is named as“Vespers” and afternoonworship is known as“Compline”. My friend belongs to Islamicculture where people worshiptheir god for five time in a day.Behaviour The behaviour of Romanianpeople are very friendly,On the other hand, thebehaviour of Arabian people2
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