MysteryMayhem

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Isa from Chad

Republic of Chad

John have a roommate so different than us he comes from a country called Chad, Isa is now 23 years old and is currently studying Human Sciences in IIUM. He is much taller than us and we regularly exchange ideas and thoughts over coffee and cigarettes. According to him, Chad is a vast, ethnically diverse African country. It got its independence from France in 1960 after a sixty-year colonial period rule that did not create a meaningful national unity. Within the country's borders one may distinguish several national cultures that are based on the religious affiliations of the population groups. Many of the cultures can be traced back to a complex precolonial history of competing indigenous states and sultanates. Isa had lived there all his life and came to Malaysia to further his study. When comes to history, gotta give him credit though.

Isa also mentioned about the name Chad which is derived from the designation of the great Lake Chad (originally called Kuri). Chad is somewhat similar to Sudan in that it has a northern part inhabited by an Islamic (and partly Arabic-speaking) population of pastoralist semi-desert peoples, and a southern part of Christians and traditional religious people, engaged in mixed agriculture, crafts, and trade.

These two parts each comprise about half of the population. Postcolonial Chad has, like Sudan, been marked by deep regional-ethnic divisions and a violent history of struggle for power among the various elites that have alternative visions of the state and their place within it. Armed rebellions and years of protracted and destructive civil war, in which the role of Libya was at times notable, have characterized Chad's recent history. Sure many things had been going on since Isa was brought to this world.

Isa told us that Chad's national identity is unstable, and first and foremost derived from the inherited post-colonial administrative state structure. Constitutionally, Chad is unitary and secular, but in recent years a struggle has occurred to redefine the identity of the nation. The issue of how this would have to be reflected in the nation's legal system has not even been posed. Language policy also reveals the problems: French and Arabic were chosen as the official languages of the state— both long established in Chad but neither of them indigenous.

Having to know Isa and a bit of the background of his country, really gave us the urge to learn more about intercultural communication that thought us that culture is vas and culture is diverse.

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Prejudice // ˈprejədəs //

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Visualizing our-self

1:51 AM

CROSS CULTURAL

TedTalk Seminar

Cross cultural Communication | Pellegrino Riccardi | TEDxBergen

Source: YouTube

Mr Pellegrino is a very interesting person and very rich with culture due to his background which consist of a little mixture of United Kingdom, Italy and Norway. The way he control his tongue from talking to in a British slang to Italian slang is very effortless ! Same as John and Wid, even tho they both came from different state but they also have mix culture in their family. John is a mixture of Malay and Bollywood hero movie while Wid is just mixture of Malay but he is rich with culture due to growing up in a lot of places in the world especially in Malaysia.

In his Seminar, he repeat acceptance and familiar a lot of time. This is because that is all we need to know generally about a culture. ACCEPTANCE AND FAMILIARITY.

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A very interesting topic that we would like to discuss is why do the Brits talk about the weather so much ? Anybody have been to UK before ? If yes i am pretty sure you will hear "lovely day love" or "good day for a walk sir". Is there something about the nation's weather that makes it worthy of discussion, or is it simply a cultural foible?

Best answer is because of the several features of Britain's geography make the weather the way it is, mild, changeable, and famously unpredictable.

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Enough about the outside country for awhile, let us take you on few cultural habits to understand in Malaysia. Let me start with festive seasons or even weddings in Malaysia ! WE GIVE GIFTS OF MONEY DURING IT !

Crazy right ?

But you heard us, Money is on the table for every festive seasons ! Our country has plenty of holidays and festive seasons. One cultural habit that we have in common is the generous custom of giving guest, small packets of money during major festive seasons such as Chinese New Year, Hari RayaAidilfitri, and Deepavali. This is also common gift for weddings. Instead of painstaking looking for the perfect gift, guests usually give money envelopes to the new couple. So we are highly inviting you to have a holiday in Malaysia during the festive seasons for some Munnayyhhhhh.