Culture And Culture In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is commonly known for its strict moral values and customs regarding religion and women. Gender discrimination is a global conflict but it is prevalently seen in Saudi Arabia. Gender discrimination is so poignant in Saudi Arabia because there are strict sets of moral guidelines and ideologies that Saudi Arabian culture implements on its people. Although Saudi Arabian men impose restrictions on women for the sake of upholding their cultural beliefs and family’s honor, there is no doubt that Saudi Arabian culture is male dominated and holds misogynistic views on women, but progress is being made.

The Saudi Arabia history dated back to the early biblical days. Saudi Arabia has the land mass that covers two million square miles and the residents of this country of twenty six million people. The Islam religion has started in Saudi Arabia where the two holy areas are in Mecca and Medina mosques. Saudi Arabia has the world oil reserved that consist of seventeen percent. Ibn Saud was the first Saudi King back in 1932 when was the Kingdom was founded.

In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is the largest arid country (Al-Ibrahim, 1991). The country covers some 80 percent of the Arabian Peninsula (Al-Hamzi, 1992). The area of Saudi Arabia is 2.25 million square kilometers, equivalent (1.4) million square miles (Batayneh, 2012). The total number population in Saudi Arabia is 25.7 million (Al-Shayaa et al., 2012). Saudi Arabia climate is broiling in the summer and chilly in the winter, and Saudi Arabia does not have well-defined season. In addition, Saudi Arabia is waterless country, and it does not have rivers or lakes (Al-Shayaa et al., 2012).

Saudi Arabia and Iran are two countries that sit on opposite sides of the Sunni/Shiite divide, which can be argued as being the most prominent issue the Middle East faces today. Saudi Arabia is predominantly known to be a Sunni state, while Iran is largely inhabited by Shia Muslims. Both countries aspire to be the hegemonic powers of the region. Ethnically, Iran is known to be a Persian land, unlike Saudi Arabia that is known to be in the heart of the Arab world. These two countries are separated by the Arabian Gulf and throughout the twentieth century and up until today, the relationship between the two countries has been notoriously contentious. Within the past few years especially relationships between the two states have been very fragile with Saudi Arabia ending diplomatic ties early in 2016. The two states are strained over many issues of which are, interpretations of Islam, oil export policy and hegemonic regional leadership.

Volunteers will be invited to find on the map the current name of the country – Saudi Arabia and its neighboring countries and present some facts about the country if known to them form the geography class (5 min).

It is noted that every Middle Eastern Country are publicly fascinated of the Dabke dance. Each of the Middle Eastern nation claims they are the best at dancing Dabke. They also claim to have to have invented the dance (Hussein, 2016). However, there is the truth and reality behind the dance. Dabke is also referred to as Dabka or even Dabkeh. It is those names that the Middle Eastern people refer to the actual dance that is normally used by different dialect. The dance is universal irrespective of someone’s roots and cultural background. Whether one comes from Iraq, Lebanon, or even Palestine, the dance is still the same. The term Dabka basically means the act of stomping (Haugbolle, 2010). The dance found its inception back in the early 1990s before the segmentation of the Middle East took place. The Middle East was segmented through the colonization process. The colonies were either the French or the British. The Middle East was a single peaceful land that had a common Dabke art. The Dabke art was widely used in celebrations, joyful events, at the weddings, at the graduation, and also in birthdays. Therefore, Dabke was well known to be a tradition that was shared. Meaning the tradition was not owned by anybody and it originated in the Middle East intended for everyone to celebrate.

The term globalization can be defined as a process by which societies, regional economies and cultures have been integrated via a global network of transportation, communication and trade. It has both positive and negative impacts in all the areas that it touches on be it economical, social, technology, cultural, political, environment, health or any other. Globalization started to have an impact on businesses world wide in the eighteenth century since that time marks the merging of modernity and globalization. However, in the modern sence, globalization kicked off after the end of Second World War since its during that time that leaders felt the urge to break down the borders

Teanna Hayes Professor Brockman English 2030 3 December 2014 Finding Nouf is considered an entirely enjoyable debut mystery. In Finding Nouf, the writer of this captivating novel; Zoë Ferraris, shows readers an enthralling glimpse of the Saudi Arabian world. In reading Fnding Nouf, readers engage in a thrilling story while also learning about the Saudi Arabian culture. Finding Nouf reveals many different aspects of the Saudi Arabian culture.

Culture is the characteristics and understanding of a specific group of individuals, defined by everything from religion, beliefs, and human thoughts of behaviors and interactions. There is a variety of different cultures which encourage different perspectives or ways of thinking. The Australian culture and Saudi -Arabia culture both encourage a range of different opinions and views in regards to religion and gender. Gender in the Australian culture and Saudi-Arabia culture plays a major role in the perspectives of equality and how both cultures perceive it. Thus, Religion in the Australian culture and sudi Arabia culture is based on beliefs, morals, ethics and customs and in general the perspectives of what are right and wrong. Culture perspectives

The lack of unity among Arab states makes them vulnerable and usable by Europeans and the United States. The Hashemite (The House of Hasmin) aided the British to fight the Ottoman Turks in return for their own state. Although, they did not get what they hoped for, the British and the French created three countries for the Hashemite, drawing boundaries with ethnic groups that had nothing in common. For example, when the Al-Sauds created Saudi Arabia and rose to prominence, they quickly became the favorite of the West. Saudi Arabia is the private property of the Al-Saud family. The kingdom is an absolute monarchy and is ranked as the fifth most authoritarian state. Political parties are prohibited and there no elections. Saudi Arabia has a unicameral Consultative Council (parliament) that has 150 members, 30 of which are women, appointed by the monarch. No one has rights in Saudi Arabia unless you are part of the royal family and their inner circle such as the Bin Laden. “Breaking allegiance with the king” and peaceful activism will lead to an individual being jailed and fined. The Human Right Watch Organization has recorded countless human rights violation in the kingdom. Despite the Saudis’ abysmal records on human rights and authoritarian government, they are highly favored by the

Through interaction with others on a daily basis, we acquire the meanings, values, norms, and styles of communicating” (Ting-Toomey). Culture can be defined as the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. Studying Yemen, not only have I learned the physical and cultural adjustments such as climate, language, and material things, but I have learned about the cultural differences such as, religion, worldview, values, notions of time, and

Countries dominated by the Sharia: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Sudan. The Saudi constitution stipulates that Sharia governs the right. Saudi judges even have the power to review the constitutionality of laws and eliminate those not compatible with Sharia. How it is codified in Saudi Arabia? Some say it comes from the Hanbali rite, which is not quite true. In the right of the Saudi arbitration

The term culture is one of those words that we use routinely, but what is it exactly? Basically, culture is the multipart overall of a society which includes everything that gives a society an identity. Culture may consist of customs, languages, and religion beliefs amid other characteristics that are ordinary to people of a nation/region. What is predominantly interesting about cultures is that each culture, no matter where it is located, shares at least five basic characteristics. However, every culture has its own distinct characteristics that differentiate it from the others. One of such cultures is the Kuwait culture. This culture awareness essay will attempt to emphasis on cultural aspects of the people of Kuwait while drawing your attention to the social-culture annalists of Kuwait nation/region’s physical geography, current and passed military conflicts and their impact on the society, weather, and civil concern.

     In the heart of the Middle East is a country known by many Westerners for its oil production and, often, extremist beliefs of groups within the country. The country is Saudi Arabia, and though it is thought of by many as a rather backward country, Saudi Arabia has a rich history and culture, and it is a country that revolves around Islam and the worship of Allah as the one true God.

There are four cultural dimensions that were defined in Hofstede's research: Power distance, Uncertainty avoidance, Individualism, Masculinity, and recently Hofstede add one more: long-term-short-term orientation. In this part of paper, comparison between Singapore and Saudi Arabia will be discussed, by focusing Hofstede's cultural dimensions as a point of reference