Journal #20

One of the unacceptable things in my culture is to not eat someone's cooking. It is impolite to enter the door before older people and aslo women. So you should know that when you are going to enter somewhere first of all old women, second women, third old men, forth men and at last children should enter. Children never can say bad words in front of parents and old people. Also it's not common to talk about sex in front of people. Children usually talk about these things aside with their parents. When someone buy a new house, You should go, get a gift and visit him/her. In american culture, it's not acceptable to yell at someone or in public. I remember once we were having dinner and my cousin that was born in United States made fun of grandmother and I was shocked because it's against persian culture to insult or make fun of an elder person. Also always when you see an elder person, you should say hello to respect, but americans don't care much about these things.