The common and inclusive definition of culture is " repeated human behavior, art, music, dancing, religious rituals, food, clothes, weather conditions and social values.
Despite there are many means to discover cultures around us such as Reading books, watching historical documentaries or enjoy historical Gallery,... etc.
But still traveling and talking with different nations, eating their food, integrate with their customs are the most interesting tools.
The most vivid experience during my journey concern about cultural expressions, see new places which reflect old and historic events, previous Eras and archaic mythologies. all those things equip me with an ultimate pleasure.
During my stay in Romania I have been in charge of representing my country Egypt
What a hard responsibility to be alone, trying to represent historic country has unique aspects, starts with Civilization from time immemorial, complicated demographic details, different social classes, various traditions according to each region and governorate, declare of political and social status and try to introduce historic figures in different fields.
I remember very well after my first presentation of Egypt I told the audience
" Egypt is not one community, it's a lot of communities, impossible to generalize people there or to have entire image around customs and social traditions, for those who consider me kind guy, I am sorry but not all Egyptian have such kindness and for those who consider me tough guy, I'm also sorry but not all egyptian are boring and you have to communicate with me more "
No words can describe feeling of Traveling and discovering new countries :
Hungary & Netherlands & Spain & France & Belgium & Serbia & Bulgaria in order to discover old civilizations, observe different types of people and having fun.
Food one of the most common cultural aspect we can enjoy, through food we can discover a lot of social rituals, preferences of people, we can agree on there is vital connection between food and our lifestyle.
I used to acclimate with Romanian weather conditions, although it started raining since August until last night .
You can't be integrate inside community unless you adapt, accept and try to enjoy with it's all different weather conditions
Uncountable privileges you can gain from traveling and discover cultures around the world;
- Having friends from different backgrounds,environment and countries.
- Integration with different people,characters and cultures,foster human values like tolerance,
- Accepting each other, forgiveness, focusing on mutual spaces.
- Awareness of differences between us and what we should do to keep and save our differences alive between us Eventually i realized that there are not any excuses to generalize because everybody has different skills and his own identification.
No judgment, No judgment, No judgment.
Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
Edward T. Hall