Wedding custom around the world (1) Early African American：Jumping the Broom In the times of slavery in this country, African American couples were not allowed to formally marry and live together. To make a public declaration of their love and comm...
Customs on Invitations in Britain In Britain it is common to be invited to someones home rather than to a restaurant. If you are invited to a restaurant it is because your host is very busy, cant cook very well, or wants to give you the enjoyment of...
Christmas Celebrations Around the World It is interesting to see how different countries celebrate Christmas．We asked some of our friends and this is what they told us about their Christmas celebrations： Belgium On Christmas Eve，it starts with...
Buddha 's Birth day （Hana Matsuri） Hana Matsuri，or flower festival，is observed on April８by the Japanese to celebrate the Buddha' s birthday．Flower festival alludes to the season and to the garden in which Buddha was born． Unlike other b...
What the Americans Don' t Talk About ! One of the recurring questions that my students in China often ask is:What are the things they shouldn't talk about with Americans?Taboo topics tend to make people feel uneasy.Every culture has these off－limit...
Mothers Day and Fathers Day People in the United States honor their parents with two special days：Mothers Day，on the second Sunday in May，and Fathers Day，on the third Sunday in June． Mothers Day was proclaimed a day for national observance...
Random Thoughts-Party Last night,pressured by well－intentioned friends,for the first time in months,I came out of writers seclusion and attended a cocktail party which is another word for a social gathering.So there I was,trapped in a crowded room,...
April Fools Day While popular in the U.S.,the April Fool' s Day tradition is even more prevalent in European countries,such as France and Great Britain.Althought he roots of the traditional trickings are unclear,the French and the British both have c...
May 31 Flowers of May In the Philippines，May is a time of in tense festivity．All month，school children assemble bouquets and floral offerings and take them to church．Meanwhile，girls elected to serve as festival queens parade through the str...
England in the 1500s Here are some facts about the 1500s： Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May，and，still smelled pretty good by June．However，they were starting to smell，so brides carried a bouquet of...
How the Americans View Friendship Steve and Yaser first met in their chemistry class at an American university．Yaser was an international student from Jordon．He wanted to learn more about American culture and hoped that he and Steve would become...
How names are called in America People generally call each other by their first names much sooner in their acquaintance than people do in other walks of life.Taking that liberty too soon has closed many doors for the offender.Therefore,one must sense...
October 20: Colchester Oyster Feast For nearly two thousand years,people have been cultivating the common British oyster in the lower reaches of England' s Colne River－－ever since the town now known as Colchester was a Roman fortress.The Romans e...
Jan.15 Martin Luther King,Jr.'s Birthday Born on this day in 1929,the African－American clergyman Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.worked hard for civil rights in his native South and elsewhere.Preaching peace and sensibility,he was in the vanguard of many...
Miranda Rights When you watch an American film or TV play，you notice that while a policeman or a lieutenant is cuffing a suspect he is saying something or reading something from a piece of paper to him．What he is saying or reading is called Miran...
