Islam

This is the article which has something to do with Islam.
http://cnn.co.jp/business/CNN200704300017.html

These days the police in Iran warn barber's not to cut men's eyeblows and hair Western European style. Recent years young men tend do those things which is contradictory to the Islamic law (Sharia) in Iran especially Teheran. More and more barber's suggest people moviestars hair style in Hallywood and so on. If people don't obey this order, baeber's would have to close a store for a month and people would be impose a penalty, imprisonment, or the punishment of whip.

When I read this article, I felt negative because cutting hair like hollywood stars isn'trare in Japan. Now people can do anything they want, but still people there can get punishments easily because of things that is normal here.

○This is the list of the words explains Islam○
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Buddhism in My Daily Life

Question: How is your daily life affected by Buddhism? What do you do and why do you do it?

I visit my grandmother's house about a few times a half year. Every time I visit her, I visit my grandfather's grave with her. I clean the gravestone and put beautiful flowers and light candles and pray for him. I have done this since I was little. He died when I was one year old, so I don't remember him at all, but while I pray I always tell him what happened to me recently and ask him to see me and help me even he doesn't exist.
I enjoy Christmas and Valentine's day which are Christianity, but this is one of my important custom. Actually, I don't know why I do that, but visiting a grave makes me relief and think that I think of him.

What is cross culture situation?

http://www.asahi.com/culture/news_culture/TKY200704280118.html
This is about KARUTA which is Japanese style card game. First, you put all cards on the ground. One person reads some sentence that is written in those cards. Other people try to find the card. Then, at last a person who has more cards than other people is going to be a winner. Usually, these cards have each Hiragana words, but this KARUTA has the picture of World Heritage Sites include 13 Japanese ones. This KARUTA was made by the students at Tsukuba graduate school.

The reason why I think this is a cross culture situation is because this Japanese traditional game KARUTA has many famous sites in the world. People who don't understand Japanese can't play this game, but they see what the pictures show. If you play this game in English, people would be able to enjoy and study, too!!!