Evaluating Intercultural Behavior
During the recess week, I
went to the Bangladesh to visit the parliament building which is my
favorite
architect Louis Kahn’s posthumous work . I try to write story that I experience.
Roughly I introduce about
Banglash, It is one of the most poor country.
It is more poor than North Korea.
More than 80% of people have religion Muslim.
The thing especial is
Bangladesh is scored 1st at the survey of how much they feel
hapiness(hapiness
idex).
But it’s
not truth.
Many people have no their house and go about begging .
Many disabled man is there because their poor levels of hygiene .
That’s why my guest house host suggest I don’t eat local food.
Neverltheless why they scored 1st at the
survey?
Guest host say that is a
problem of their strong self-respect.
Unless they feel happy, they say Yes, I’m
happy in case they have an interview.
That point is very shocking
for me. But that is their culture.
The other thing shocked is
about the woman.
Our group is composed of 1
woman, 2 men. Woman’s name is Moon.
Moon went travel as casual
cloth at first. But it have a problem.
Whenever people encounter our group, all
people look at Moon, they try to touch her.
That’s why moon exposed her skin.
In the Muslim country, exposure of skin means everyone
can touch me.
That is one of the culture of Muslim, woman’s
right is low than man’s that.
Woman have to cover their all skin except for
their face. When they is with husband, they can
uncover the cloth. Also they
can’t shake a hand in case of meeting woman including all things
touch their
body. Looking woman’s face for a long time, it also be an impoliteness. Man and
woman’s role is absolutely different so they don’t go together when they go
road.
So like proverb, “If you go to Rome follows the Roman law.” We are going to follow
the
Bangladesh culture. We bought the traditional their cloth. After we wear
the tradition cloth, we
feel they treat us more gently. That is why they feel
we respect them?
One day, French criticized heavily the habit of Korean eat dog meat. It’s
very controversial
problem.
but I think French try to understand their culture
first.
The definition of CULTURE is
a particular society at a particular time and place.
‘Particular’ is important. It’s not common things.
When we try to understand “particular”,
we can start understand each other.
