By Luis By Luis SandovalSandoval

Sudanese weddings:Sudan is a country that is located in

North Africa. The population of this country is a mixture of native Nilo-Saharan speaking Africans and descendants of migrants from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arab culture predominates in Sudan.

In this country the weddings are different from the weddings that we know. In Sudan, people who are getting married do things that for our culture may be very strange. The weddings in Sudan have stages and in some cases these begin six weeks before the day of the marriage.

By Fernanda Umaña

The celebration of the marriage begins six weeks before, the bride starts practicing a special dance that she will dance on the day of the wedding.Then, about two days before the wedding, the bride invites her friends to the Henna party. The Henna party consists of hands and legs decoration for the bride. The material that is used to paint hands and legs is a paste made of leaves of the Henna bush.

The day of the wedding the bridegroom is welcomed with an auspicious decoration called umbul- umbul. The bridegroom is the fiance, and he receives some flowers from her mother in law and it means the welcome to their family. The wedding is followed by the blessing of the parents. In this act the bride and bridegroom kiss the knees of their parents.

Japan is a highly developed country that possesses many different costumes. They have different ways of speaking, eating, and meeting people. They also have very creative ways to do new things. One example is a rather strange custom called “ohaguro” which developed between the years 710-794 a.c. This practice consists of women dying their teeth black. At first it was practiced to symbolize that a girl was no longer a girl, yet a woman, but during the Edo period it turned into a way of telling if the girl was married or not.

The vast majority of married Japanese women were dying their teeth for over 200 years and even today many Japanese women still cover their mouth by custom, although the tradition of painting teeth is not longer practiced.In our opinion we consider that this custom reflected of maleness dominance at that time because men are not required dye their black teeth or cover their mouth when they smiled. This is a strange tradition when the women did not have the opportunity to make their own decisions.  

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By Fernanda Umaña

By Luis By Luis SandovalSandoval

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By Fernanda Umaña

• Reflection:Reflection:• In this essay I want to explain  my learning in the course, the

experiences along this quarter, goals and objectives I had, the dedication and time to study and remove obstacles had.Before starting the course I had no goals and objectives of this course, but with the first class I realized that the course was very interesting, he was going to learn a lot by way of explaining to the teacher. After my goals and objectives were to improve my pronunciation and remember things that had already learned before to improve my writing.I consider it my good performance that was paying attention in class, performing the work, trying to improve every day worthwhile for what you pay for the course. and my dedication was good for my career that it is difficult to give a focus and study hard for all work to be done. I feel I gave my best in this course, try to do the work well.

By Fernanda Umaña

By Luis By Luis SandovalSandoval