We live in a globalized yet diverse world where people want to hold on to their unique culture and traditions. Christians celebrate Christmas; Muslims celebrate Eid. One of the most important events in the Spanish society is the grand Tomatina Festival, where participants throw tomatoes at each other. In India, people celebrate the spring festival, Holi, by coloring each other’s faces and clothes with dry powder and colored water. While graduation is a huge event in the US, whether it is from kindergarten, high school or college, it isn’t significant at all in Afghanistan; people celebrate entrance not graduation. Though a small Scandinavian country, Norway, has unique traditions that most people aren’t familiar with. Every Norwegian kid looks forward to graduating from high school because of the legendary russefering, russ celebration, which is essentially a month of sensation and adventure. The russefeiring essentially began in 1905 as high school graduates who had received admission into an institute of higher education were identified by their red caps; red is the main color of the flag of Norway. Over the next decades, other colors of the caps were added to distinguish to distinguish between students with different majors in high-school. A hundred and nine years later, the russ costume has developed in red overalls and caps, and shoes with imprints of the Norwegian flag. Moreover, it has now become a general celebration for students who are about to finish their upper secondary school years. Aside from the russ costume, there are many other aspects to the russefeiring which were added over the years. One of such is making a russekort, russ card, where students essentially design a so-called business card. This card includes ... ... middle of paper ... ...hough the russefering is about a month, most of the russ don’t go crazy until the last few days. The non-russ don’t experience the craziness until May 17th unless they are high school students who have to deal with their seniors daily. The Norwegian government faces the challenge of whether this tradition should keep going or not annually as the russ get crazier and more out of hand. However, the majority of Norwegian citizens view the russ- experience as a sacred tradition. Even though they agree that many have gotten out of hand, they do not want the tradition to stop. The russefeiring brings together all about to be-graduates of Norway to have a chance to be stupid and make mistakes before heading off to the real world. Although the government should keep checking up on the russ, in order to protect them and other citizens, it is a tradition that must be kept.
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...e tradition. Hopefully, the younger generations will continue to celebrate the sacred celebration to maintain their heritage in the future.
...ithdraw from the tradition because they do not know any other way. Can you imagine what life would be if there were no Christmas or Thanksgiving? For many cultures, tradition is the basis for their history. One example to this being the Hawaiian culture whose history was destroyed when they were forced to stop their ancient dances which told stories of their past. Adversely, tradition has played negative roles in society as well with the battle between the Muslims and Christians in many middle-eastern countries. Tradition plays many roles in today's society. Our goal should be to grasp the idea of what they really mean. We must not isolate ourselves to what we think we know, but instead allow ourselves to comprehend.
“Split Personality Of The Russian National Character” Russian Empire, USSR, and the smaller states of today, the largest one being Russia itself have had their due share of a very healthy legacy and have been at the forefront of things. Russian Empire was the last largest empire to have survived for so long and when that split up things did not end there. It is a huge piece of land with marked difference in every respect possible. The way they have contributed to the history and made history is simply commendable. One keeps wondering when one sets to read about what is expected and what is due. The history seems intriguing when we start considering the Russian history. The Russians represents a sort of split personality and the way things have turned out over the years it seems that there are a lot of factors working within the system that might have contributed to a lot of problems besides contributing to the uplift of the nation. It is the same nation that has astounded the world by its contrasts and taken the things to the extreme in different ages. Be it wealth and poverty, culture and primitivism, cruelty and human genius. Behind or beneath these contrasts lies the deep dichotomy that splits the national psyche. The heritage and culture is bright and strong but in places is mulled and dark as well and there is proof of conflicting forces represented by the cultures of Europe and Asia, West and East. A nation that had so much and gave so much yet suffered such frequent ups and lows and what could be the reasons that might have contributed to all of this? Split personality of the Russian national character is a part of their heritage as well. Russians had a dual national identity and at times there have been more than two as w...
Cultural credits have both many pros and cons, but the negative side of them far outweigh the positives. Bad timing, the need for sacrifice, pulling of attendance from other events, and the small amount of respect for the events all are very large issues. Forcing students to go to something that they do not find interest in is not the way to “enrich learning beyond the classroom.”
In Joel L. Swerdlow’s 2001 essay, “Changing America,” he writes about the current cultural differences among kids in high school. He goes on to talk about how you can gather a large variety of kids, coming from all over the world, yet they still somehow manage to develop the same “American Teenager” attitude toward life. The essay talks about how people used to view America as a “melting pot” of nations, and how over time that view is starting to change.
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Differences in culture make country has its own traditional customs. Wedding, an extremely important event on one's life, has specific ritual observances. However, thanks to the cultural exchange, Vietnam wedding customs and those of a foreign country – America, have both similarities and differences.
High school graduation is a milestone in our lives where we are able to celebrate the end of a journey, our new found freedom, and our first step into the “real world”, also known as adulthood. It is a night full of reminiscing on the memories we made with the classmates who have been by our sides since kindergarten, the classmates that we may not ever see again. It is a night with mixed emotions, teary eyes, smiles of relief, laughter as we think back on all of the memories we shared, talk of the colleges and universities we will be attending, what we will be doing, and the unbelievable realization that we finally did it; we graduated. It is an accomplishment we should be proud of, a night we should look back on. High school graduation is
Being part of the basketball clique in high school helped me learn the intrapersonal and social communication skills I use today. As a child playing basketball was my favorite activity or hobby. It's also the way I met a lot of my good friends that I have now. All my close friends I have met. I have met them through playing basketball.. Whether they were on my team, the opposing team or just fans in the crowd who admired my play. Not only has basketball helped me gain friends, but basketball also taught me a lot about life. There are many aspects of life that coincide with basketball. For instance basketball is a team game and an individual game. Like in life you have to work together with other people. The communication skills I learned from basketball helped me communicate with friends, girlfriends, parents and bosses at work.
Through out life people go through so many hardships. Whether it be good or bad there is always something that comes out of the situation. One of the most exciting but yet scariest events would be graduation. For a lot of people, graduating from high school is a goal. It takes a lot of time and effort to achieve that goal. In the long run, it opens a lot of opportunities for people to succeed. Graduation is the end of high school, and the beginning to life.
Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed me for reality.
Many holidays are celebrated around the world, and all of them follow a different set of ideologies. Some ideologies may be religious, political,
America has many days dating back in history which need to be celebrated. To illustrate, the fourth of July is very important to Americans because it is the the day they have gained their independence and freedom. Celebrating the most memorable day of the country, citizens have made fireworks and barbeque a tradition every year with family and friends. The fourth of November,Thanksgiving, is also commemorated by fellow Americans with a traditional and delicious turkey. Inhabitants of America reminisce on their life and share what they are thankful for. This day holds plenty of joyous feelings. Soaring with high creativity, Halloween is a holiday that allows children (or even adults) to dress up as witches, monsters, or other characters besides