Are the following customs true or still true? Why did or do these customs exist? What do you think about them? How is it in your country?
 
 

 
 

 

The Middle East

 

Iran. In many Middle Eastern countries, women must cover their hair with a hijab, face with a niqab or body with a burka.

Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, a host must offer refreshments and the guest must refuse it. This happens three times, before the guest must accept the offer.

Lebanon. Travelers comment on how friendly and hospitable people in the Middle East are.

Syria. Middle Eastern people generally avoid migrating to other Middle Eastern countries and prefer going to Europe or North America.

Afghanistan. If people commit adultery, they should be stoned.

Turkey. In the Middle East, virtually everyone working in bazaars, shops, restaurants and small businesses are men.

Baharain. If a guest admires anything in a host’s or hostess’ home in Saudi Arabia, it will be given to him or her.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
United Arab Emirates. In Gulf States, migrants from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka outnumber the local Arabs.

Jordan. It is perfectly alright for Muslim men to date and marry foreign, non-Muslim women, but it is unacceptable for Muslim women to marry foreign men.

Egypt. Turks and Persians emphatically insist that they are not Arabs and have absolutely nothing in common with Arabs, and they are a Mediterranean people similar to Greeks and Italians.

Jerusalem In the Kibbutz in Israel, children live and grow up separately from their parents in dorms. People eat together in communal kitchens.

Israel. Women as well as men are conscripted into the Israeli Defense Forces (military).