Monday, June 13, 2011

Jordan

  • homemade wedding dress young women created there own wedding dresses with help from older experienced woman.
  • Death:in Islam burials cant take place after sunset, the bodies are first washed (a man by his wife or his mom if hes not married and a woman usually by another woman)
  • woman roles:most woman have arranged marriages
  • woman stay home with the kids and cook , clean
  • high education: Jordan has three state run univ.
  • Arab speakers stand very close to each other
  • Jordanian art is mostly tradition-bound in design materials and colors come in forms of handcrafts such as fabric, wood, jewelry
  • sports: camel and horse races
  • national anthem:long live the king
  • currency : Us $1= .75 dinar
  • capital: Amman
  • area: 35,000 square miles
  • geographical regions: jordan river valley , plateau and highlands, desert land.
  • Kaffiyeh:traditional Arab head dress for men.

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