Cultural Observation
For this assignment, attend a festival or visit a grocery store that caters to a specific ethnicity other than your own, such as Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, or Mexican. Spend a significant amount of time there observing the setting. Consider the following in your observations: 1.What do you smell? 2.What types of food are available that are unfamiliar to you? 3.How are the food and other items presented in ways that seem unusual or different from your experience? 4.Watch and listen to the people. How do they interact with each other? How are they dressed? Write an essay (250-500-words) thoroughly describing the experience: 1.Where did you go? Who went with you? How long did you stay? 2.What did you notice, especially about the way the people interacted? 3.To what do you attribute the differences you saw or smelled or heard? 4.Reflect on how much this experience stretched your comfort zone and how this observation might affect your intercultural communication. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines. An abstract is not required.
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Ilili is a Swanky Lebanese restaurant in New York City, combining elements of Mediterranean, Greek and Middle Eastern dishes. Lebanon is one of the Levant countries with a sizeable Christian minority with the food having more influences outside Arabic foods than countries in the Arab/ Persian Gulf. Even though, lamb is one of the major foods in the restaurant, there are meatless menus including hummus, falafel and baba ghanouj. The smell of spices and various and well cooked meat is common especially the lamb loin, but also chicken and beef.
I stayed in the restaurant for close to an hour, having gone to sample the food with my elder brother. Even though, the restaurant is frequented by people from all backgrounds other than the Lebanese, the main common feature of the restaurant is that the waiters prefer direct communication. This is because the place can get crowded and at times loud when, and the high ceilings do not seem have a positive effect on the sound level when it is crowded. O...