Cultural Markers Significance

This blog is going to talk about Cultural Markers. Cultural Markers can mean your religion, beliefs, languages, symbols, etc. As a Muslim, symbols, beliefs, and language is the most important. The importance will be explained later, but the topic that we will be getting into is how people mistake or assume from the actions or from where our religion originates from.

Misinformation can come from many sources, Media, assumptions, or just miscommunication. But this can affect the image of the religion and the people who follow and believe in the symbols.

I have only really had one conflict based on my religion/culture. I was at an airport in the US (The significance of the country will be explained) for an American Football competition. I was talking to the TSA man and he asked for my passport. I handed him my American Passport and he continued talking. He asked where I was from, and with what happened next I was certain he wanted me to say a state or a city, but I told him I come from UAE but I am Egyptian, and he suddenly had a change in facial expression and once he checked the visa stamp on my Passport, he asked me to go to the room to search me, it felt awkward and I felt more embarrassed as my whole team had to wait for me as I finished being vulgarly patted down and asked me to strip to my undergarments.

Now you can probably guess why he assumed that I had to be patted down and some. If you watching the news, ISIS has been a very big topic in the news lately from all attacks that they have claimed responsibility for.

This is one of the ways that the media can influence people's thoughts on topics and many other things. 

Intro

My name is Aly Abousen. I am from Egypt, Alexandria more specifically. I am 15 years old, and I live in the UAE. I’ve lived in the UAE for my whole life and it’s fascinating seeing it being developed from just a couple of houses and a desert around them to it breaking records for superstructures and police having Lamborghinis for cars. I’m interested in sports. I am a somewhat active person so I like to play new sports as well, that is if I do well at them. I play American Football because I love contact sports. And this would be the best to play in my opinion since the contact isn’t limited. I also swim quite a lot. I mostly do it just as a hobby but I do play competitive sports in swimming as well.

Music is a very important factor in my life. I feel elated whenever I listen to music. I don’t want to be that person that tries to Rap and/or Sing even though that person cannot do either, but music is important to me, and I imagine most of us. I really listen to all types of music. Jazz, Soul, Hip-Hop, R&B, and a small degree, EDM. Music isn’t the only art I am interested in. I’m also interested in Poetry. I do write down a few verses but I also listen more/ read more than I write. I like to read Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare (Of Course), Maya Angelou, and the all mighty best poet to mankind, Dr. Seuss. He is linguistically clever and his rhyming schemes are well employed

I haven’t really thought much of the future. Mostly because I am too busy worrying about the present, and the problems it presents me with. I don’t really aspire to have a career because I haven’t really thought about it that much. Whenever I think of future I imagine a future where I make a good quantity of wealth, but family comes a bit later afterwards.

I do think that language is very important to learn and to study. Most people think that having one language is wholesome, but language is like a key for life (DJ Khaled reference unintended). And most people like when you can communicate in their preferred language. Proficiency might be important later but just understanding a language is good enough for me. I also think that language is important to a country as well. I believe the best way to disassemble a nation’s society is by removing its own language from it.