Last week, our team discussed what culture is.
I've learned that culture is classified into three things: perspectives, practices and products.
Perspectives are how the members of a society think, feel and value in general.
Practices are patterns of activities, behaviors such as gestures, attitudes between young and old people, and traditional wedding ceremony.
Lastly, products are specific things from the culture, such as music, movies, artworks, literature and so on.
We talked about wedding ceremonies in each other's countries. I attended a Jewish American wedding for the first time last month. They had a party for three days and after the ceremony, people danced together for about 4 hours. It is very different from my country because we don't dance and the ceremony finishes quickly. Other team members said that people don't wear black-colored clothes at the wedding in China as it looks like a funeral. Whereas, Salvador surprised and said "You don't dance at weddings??"
I thought about wedding culture between America and Korea. There is also a traditional wedding ceremony that is complicated and takes a long time in Korea. However these days many people have their wedding at a wedding hall in a building that has lots of rooms and a huge restaurant only for weddings.
Most of Korean people are very busy and work hard and they don't have time to have a wedding party for 3 days. Therefore, wedding business has developed as a convenient way in Korea.
Whereas, for American people, they separate the work from their private life well and it is respected more compare to Korean society. In Korea, if you tell your boss or teacher that you need to have a 3 days leave for your friend's wedding, they don't like it.
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