Greek Culture

One afternoon; I was searching information about Greece and I found three Greek cultural aspects that interested me because of their differences with the Costa Rican ones.



The first one; according to the most striking differences, will be their body language. For instance nodding your head to say ¨yes¨ is not polite in Greece. It is better to say ¨yes¨ instead. Otherwise, in Costa Rica it is pretty common to see people nodding their heads at all the times and even in a business meeting!

The second one is about their traditions. Such as The Name day, as it is very common in most Greeks to be named like the name of a saint. That day it is more important than your birthday and it will be better celebrated as well. On the Contrary, in Costa Rica it is more important to celebrate your birthday than your background’s name.

The third one is the way they greed. In Greece you shake hands with every one, men, women and children. Unfortunately in Costa Rica it is not so common to see a man shaking their hands with a woman or a child. However Costa Rican men or women would kiss women and hug or just say hello to children.

In brief, their body language, traditions and way of greeting are very different from mine and that’s the reason why I found them so interesting and that I will like to visit Greece some day!

Arranged Film

The Arranged film produced by Cicala Firm works and written by Stefan Schaefer, is a good example of a friendship between two girls from different cultures, and the way other’s eyes accept their friendship.

Two young women; one an Orthodox Jew, and the other a devout Muslim became friends, while they teach at a school located in Brooklyn, and both were having arranged marriages by their parents.

In spite of their religion, they wanted to keep their friendship because they became very close friends, and shared their traditions. This also happened because both were having troubles in accepting the men chosen by their parents.

Despite all those troubles I saw how they found the way of getting out of those awful situations, keeping their friendship and their traditions as well.

In conclusion, I highly recommend this film, because it is a good example to learn how to keep a friendship between people from different cultures and it is unusual for other’s eyes. An excellent practice of tolerance!

Ae Fond Kiss Film

Ae Fond kiss movie, directed by Ken Loach, is another love story of a couple with different cultures that portrayed a great example of tolerance between religious’ differences.
It takes place at city in Scotland, where a Muslim family settled down. The family was integrated by: Tariq, Sandim, Cadim; who is a Scottish young man and two sisters the oldest Rucksana and the youngest Tahara; a rebel eighteen young woman.


Tahara ,who was a student at Catholic high school, had a music professor call Roisin, who fell in love with Casim; Tahara’s brother. So, they began a relationship without troubles, even when they are from different religious, and they started to live together.
As the film advanced you could notice all their troubles for keeping this type of relationship going on, as Casim had problems with his family because they wanted him to marry his cousin. Meanwhile, Roisin had troubles as well, as she is not supposed to teach in a Catholic school while she lives with a man without getting married first.


All in all, Ae Fond Kiss film is a love story which portrayed a great example of learning to be tolerant within a couple with different religious.