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- According to Hindu tradition, children of a certain age (usually a year old) have their head shaved as part of a religious ceremony.
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Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,As an American you'd be better off staying away from politics and religion.Seriously. Otherwise, you're on safe ground. By all means never never express support for the USA's foriegn policy or describe it as a great country- that will certainly get peoples backs up.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,1. Irish celebrations include St. Patricks day, Christmas, Easter and variable religious rites of passage (eg. baptisms, first communion etc.) Wakes aren't really celebrations. 2.Celebration involves lots of people, often alcohol, often musicians and almost always nostalgia. Large amounts of children are usually running around. In wakes, men typically drink and remember the past. Women sit in the kitchen and make tea. 3. For marriages, baptisms, first communions and confirmations a mass is held in the morning. Children making their communions and confirmations are given money by relatives and neighbours. Often everyone goes back to a hotel for a meal and stays there all day. Drinking is the most common form of celebration. 4. In a sense. Everyone is in the same area.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Absolutely not!!! I really suggest becoming a bit more educated about the world (where are 'places like that' anyway?'). Iraq before the US invasion was a peaceful country with plenty of stability but it has now been raped and pillaged (ie. invaded).User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Unfortunatley there's very little information about ordinary Iraqis circulating into the international media, but Iraqi refugees have made a dent. Many middle class, professional families have fled to Syria and Jordan and their children often don't go to school. They typically worry about the safety of their families and economic survival (most families live on savings since they are not permitted to work). Most middle class Iraqi teenagers are very aware of the international community and often follow similar trends in fashion and muscic. They are becoming radicalised compared to their parents and are strongly anti-american. They are overwhelming in favour of immediate withdrawal of US troops and tend to believe that the invasion was all about oil. Recently a British Dispatches docUser Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I'm Irish but here we do the same thing. If you're washing dishes you'd usually lather them and rinse them but if soap gets on rinsed dishes it's just left to dry. The water is supposed to be hot, so that kills bacteria, anyway.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,'Philippines' is anglicised while 'Filipino' is probably in Spanish (Spain colonised the Philippines). Really its all a question of language.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I think the difference is that the USA has a very polarised view of and continues to believe in the construction of 'race'. This is so ingrained in the culture and history of the USA that the people of that country are often perplexed when they see other nationalities no sharing their own view of 'race' and it not really being an issue. Also, i think Canada is a very enlightened country- i mean they produce a lot of activists and are far more internationalist than people of the USA.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,The French can come accross as a bit abrupt and American tourists to many countries tend to rub people up the wrong way. People will not respect you unless you; make some effort to speak French, sample local food and customs etc., try not to look like tourists or wear your nationality on your sleeve and don't disrupt the natural rythym of things.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Yes. Very. Schools in the USA tend not to be as regulated as schools in other countries (eg. the vast majority of countries have a nationally standardised curriculum). Everything seems to be hit-and-miss; there aren't major national exams so knowledge is not revisited or drilled into students as much. Also schools in the USA are graded on a curve whereas in most other countries they are not, so an American can do extremely well but only compared to others. Students from other countries rely on actual percentages. One major difference i've noticed is that American schools try to teach methods of learning whereas other nations teach information. I also think there is a lot of emphasis on individual opinion, even on topics where a student may have no knowledge they are allowed to argue.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Who's to say their sandwiches aren't equally as good? Seriously, the French are very concerned with having a balanced diet and i suppose a sandwich is a quick and easy way to have a balanced lunch.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Well, i'm European and have always been taught that yawning in public is rude. By showing a sign of tiredness in front of other people, you're implying that their company is boring you. No, it's not as bad belching but scratching yourself? I've never heard that one before.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I agree. In terms of culture North Africa has both Sub Saharan and Middle Eastern influences (probably closer to Middle Eastern)but geographically it is most certainly Africa. Anyway, Middle Eastern influence is also present in East Africa.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Spanish sailors did wash up on the Irish shore, and they did stay and intermarry; that much is well documented. Anecdotal evidence points to their having made a small genetic contribution to the population, but scientific research doesn't confirm this. Many scientists are skeptical. The term 'Black Irish' is never used to describe these sailor's descendants. The term is rarely ever used at all in Ireland, and if it were, it would be used to describe African immigrants to Ireland.User Detail :
Name : SadhbhDC, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 15, City : Dublin, State : NA Country : Ireland, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,
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