Arab people

The movie “Masquerades” gives a different, more comical perspective to the notion of Arab love and marriage. The main character of the movie, Mounir, struggles to find a suitable husband for his sister who suffers from Narcolepsy. Mounir gets himself and his family into a jam when the town begins to think Rym, his sister, has found a fiance in a rich,famous foreign man. The story follows Mounir and his family as they struggle to keep the secret of the fake suitor and the movie ends with Rym…

jumping off point but was inadequate. While her comparison of Bahrain and Sweden using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (Steers, 2013) and her study of the structure of Arab extended families and the role this family structure plays in the decision-making process was a good start, she failed to study up on the changing business landscape in Arab nations. In private business, the traditional paradigms of the extended family structure are eschewed in favor of a meritocracy (Steers, 2013), where…

Since I was very young my family has always encouraged a thin body size as the “healthy” body. I remember, we always had very traditional family dinners with a meat, carb, and many vegetables and we were not allowed to leave the table until our vegetables and salads were finished. After dinner, we typically took walks around the golf course, played soccer or basketball, or swam. Nothing about this appeared to me as anything out of the ordinary or even an encouragement to be fit and thin. I had…

The role of family and culture plays an important part on how people identify themselves and other. Moreover, it depicts the history and milestone that created respect, attitude, hierarchy, and expectations of generations past, present, and future. In today’s society, disposition of others in terms of groups and perspective person have determine the way different age groups are viewed within their own culture. Unlike most cultures, Arabic around the world sees family as the center unit of total…

Food is the universal symbol of welcome, support and togetherness (Purnell, 2013). Meal preparation is a family event with multiple choices of foods to meet the individual tastes of all people. Animal proteins are costly and prepared in minimal quantities, but the diet is rich in the many types of seafood’s abundant to the country. Fruits and vegetables are eaten in large quantities with rice served at every meal. Milk is rarely consumed…

For this assignment, we were tasked with interviewing people from different backgrounds. As a person of Arab descent, I tried to find two people with vastly different ethnic backgrounds. The first person I interviewed was a fellow student from University. The student is a male, and his background is Irish and English. The student is an American, but his grandparents had migrated from Ireland over 80 years ago. The second person I interviewed was my neighbor. My neighbor is an American as well,…

Branding Guidelines Arab Culture Introduction To be able to correctly market to any target demographic one must first have a full understanding of the political correctness that surrounds the culture. Certain stigmas and generalizations about any culture often are over assertion and a broad net cast across the culture giving classification to all even though there is a vast difference in the culture being stereotyped. This is especially true when looking at Arab culture. Arab Culture When…

American, people who have strong religious and spiritual beliefs, may view cancer as punishment for not living right (Borrayo et al., 2005). Also, some cultures may associate physical abuse as a cause of breast cancer. Wardlow and Curry (1996) reported in their qualitative study that the African American participants believed bruises resulting from domestic violence could turn into cancer if they were not given any medical attention (Wardlow and Curry, 1996). On the other hand, some Arab women…

where tribalism played a major role in how the Arabs have perceived and reproduced the world around them accordingly (Barakat 1993). Such imageries and fictive genealogies are not exclusively found among the Arabs. In a similar fashion, Benjamin Disraeli, the leading Tory statesman and prime minister under Queen Victoria, has projected his Semitic pride by claiming the Arabness of the Jews. Disraeli considered the Jews to be an “Arabian tribe,” and the Arabs to be “only Jews upon horseback”…

wearing hijabs, and people of Arabic descent in general have learned to expect to be treated with racism out in public, even right outside their own…