Romani A Beautiful Country

The Jewish community has been practicing wedding ceremonies for many years where the preparations and procedures are very tedious, which takes months in order to prepare for this sacred event. When preparing for these ceremonies, it is important to understand that even though there are various types of ceremonies within the Jewish community, they all however, originated from a centralized resource and that is the Bible. Even though the Bible does not mention about wedding ceremonies, it is the iconic events that occur within the Bible that is used as the origins of wedding ceremonies for the Jewish community. In order to establish a correlation between the origins of Jewish marriages to the modern practices of Jewish wedding ceremonies, we must take a look at what a wedding ceremony consist of for the Jewish people.

There are various customs and traditions for marriage in United States based on varying factors such as culture, social norms, and religion. There are no unique practices because most of practices are derived from other cultures. The marriage practices and customs revolve around wedding attire, before wedding, wedding ceremony, reception, and after wedding. White bridal dresses are worn with a veil in weddings. However, those not wedding for the first time can choose any color of bridal dresses apart from white. Before a wedding, most have bridal showers where the bride receives gifts from the guests. Preparation takes considerable time to plan a wedding. In a wedding, groomsmen and bridesmaids are included (Lilian, 2013). The bride’s father walks the bride down the aisle to indicate approval of the groom. “The typical 21st century wedding can now feature a supporting cast of stepparents, half-siblings, Dad's new girlfriend and her kids, the bride's first stepfather and his new wife, and sometimes even the bride and groom's ex-spouses” Wedding cakes are used and couples kiss as a form of endearment. Cakes are seen symbols of fertility. It is a custom for the newly married woman to

Weddings are one of the important circumstance around of the world. Every county has their owns ways of wedding ceremonies. Although, in past the wedding ceremonies were just simply, but as time pass by weddings were improved. However, In Afghanistan, wedding ceremonies are the same as it was in the older generation. Wedding culture is passed from old generation to the new generation while nothing is being changed. Meanwhile in America, wedding ceremonies are being changed and getting more futuristic. As a result, there are three differences between Afghan and American wedding ceremonies such as their Cloths, Culture, and food.

The ceremony starts with the husband’s side; he goes and ask two men and a best man to go with him to his soon to be wife’s house and ask her parents for her hand in marriage. This process can take up to 4 to 6 hours. Reason being is because the talk about how much the girls “head” is worth, in other words herself, and talk about how much the cow has to be worth. The next step would be the husband having a ceremony at his house where they have a party welcoming the wife for the first day. Then she would stay with the husband for 3 days and 2 nights.

The tragedy that had befallen Romania is not good but they have tried to improve

It is usually celebrated at graveyards or in homes. In the graveyards, the families clean the graves of their loved ones. Then they decorate the graves with things like candles, food, drinks, flowers, and photos. They also stay up all night in the graveyards telling stories about their dead ancestors.

Some Roma hide their ethnic identities because it can be dangerous and bad for their business because of the stereotyping that goes along with being a Roma. Also, depending on the community, they may be threatened, attacked, or discriminated again.

Though I was born in Detroit and am a first-generation American, I always strongly identified with my Romanian heritage. My parents escaped from communist Romania and found a community of fellow Romanians seeking solace here in Michigan. There is a saying: “It takes a village to raise a child,” and that could not be truer of the family that raised me. They have imbued me with the harsh life lessons learned from living underneath a dictatorship and the struggle of starting life from scratch after their escape.

Under the rule of President Nicolae Ceausescu, the marginalization of women within socialist Romania was strengthened by the government’s denial of sexual liberation to women. In Ceausescu’s refusal to allow women governance over their bodies, restrictive reproductive policies that emphasized the femininity of women were created. By placing such an importance on femininity and a woman’s ability to reproduce, instead of a woman’s right of choosing whether to reproduce, Ceausescu’s regime solidified the patriarchal and traditionalist ideology of socialist Romania. It is from these patriarchal and traditionalist ideas of Ceausescu that gender constructs concerning the roles and expectations of Romanian men and women were adopted, accepted by governing figures, and forced upon societal members. The Romanian government’s focus on the femininity of women and denial of bodily authority and integrity to women, fortified Ceausescu’s regime’s belief of a woman’s femininity being subordinate to a man’s masculinity. It is from Ceausescu’s regime claiming authority over the bodies of Romanian women and his imposing pronatalist beliefs within the lives of both men and women within socialist Romania, that the idea of femininity being subordinate to masculinity was supported and solidified.

Gypsy was performed at Bridgewater State University in a production directed by Colleen Rua. Gypsy is a musical with book written by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical tells the story of Rose as she tries to get her Vaudevillian show consisting of her two young daughters, June and Louise, successful.

For my analysis on the subject I will make use of a combination of secondary sources that are relevant to the cultural, historical and fictional context of both Britain and Romania, so as to better appreciate and judge the sites and places described in Dracula. An understandable starting point for examining the novel and envision a different illustration of Dracula’s Transylvania will be to take a general look at the Literature and Context of the late-Victorian culture, period into which Bram Stoker wrote the novel. So as to contextualize the development of Dracula it is paramount for us to speak about the decay of Britain as a world power, and how that collapse is transformed into narratives. As Stephen Arata notes in his essay

From 1939-1945 millions of people were persecuted all throughout Europe. One of those kinds of people were the Gypsies (or Roma). The Gypsies were a members of traveling people. These people traditionally made a living by trade and fortune telling. In Germany the Nazis considered the Roma as genetically inferior. The fate of the Roma was very similar to the one as the Jews. In the concentrations camps the Roma were forced to work and mass murdered. On September 21, 1939 Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich security main office met with Security Police and Security Service officials in Berlin. He intended to deport 30,000 German and Austrian Roma from the Greater German Reich to the German part of Poland. The governor of the German

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Transylvania is it’s association to Bram Stokers, “Dracula,” however for such a small area of land, its at-times cloudy history with it blends the beautiful Carpathian landscape creating a feeling of enchantment when gazing up pictures of Transylvania. Besides for my grandparents being born in Transylvania, I have always been intrigued by its rough yet resilient history. Its cultural history consists of multiple heritages due to its geographic location through time. Its important to remember that for centuries, despite being a small area, the area of Transylvania has always been extremely divers.

Marriage is a significant social event in contemporary society. It is a means of building new bonds between two individuals and their subsequent families. The foundations of memorable weddings are built on those that bring often-distant family and friends together for the occasion, while dressed in their most sophisticated attire, surrounded by elegant flowers, a night of dancing, captured through the lens of an exceptional photographer. Although Hinduism and Islam are two extremely distinctive religions, their matrimonial customs do share some comparable elements, like most other cultural wedding ceremonies. In both religions, they are devotedly obedient concerning religious and cultural practices in their marital ceremonies.

Peter Szuhay asked in "Constructing a Gypsy National Culture" whether the Gypsies are an ethnic culture or a culture of poverty. I would like to argue that the Gypsy identity is a product of traditional ethnic culture as well as the product of a marginalized social stratum. There are many aspects of gypsy ethnic culture to which can be contributed to the result of marginalization and sometimes those same ethnic cultural traits become stereotypes to which society justifies their stigmatization and poverty. Thus emerges a pattern of both ethnic and social traits being interdependent, intertwined and self-perpetuated.