Cultural Post
Superstitions and ceremonies are a big part of Turkish culture. In my last few posts about Turkish culture, I talked about a few of the superstitions and rituals in daily cultural life. I will explore these in my cultural project, with attention and focus on traditions and superstitions around death. What are the beliefs surrounding death and the afterlife? Do those come from religion, or are they from pre-existing beliefs common throughout the Mediterranean? Like weddings, funerals are big events. There are two weeks of mourning are various communal events that occur when someone dies. In America, we have a few traditions around funerals, but beliefs about death and the afterlife differ from person to person. A death in Turkey is a bigger event and the rituals surrounding death are longstanding traditions. There is a specific agenda of activities and food eaten when someone dies in Turkey. I look forward to exploring this topic more, specifically the origins of the tradition. I will also begin to research using resources in Turkish, as my goal is to deliver my presentation mainly in Turkish.
Learning Activity Reflection
I had a couple of people try my activity. One of my roommates studies Arabic with me. She got all of them correct. One of my other roommates, who does not study another language, also got them all right. I know they were all easy sentences and words, but they thought it was fun. The emphasis on this activity was not whether or not the sentences were complex, but it was an activity on using context clues to decipher the meaning of an unknown word.
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