Immersion project: Indian Muslim

DATE: 7/3/2012

DAY: WEDNESDAY

TIME:2100

I have interviewed my friends that have a pure blood of Indian race. the goal for this session is to know about Indian Muslim culture. Her father and mother is Indian Muslim.  I am very interested to know about their culture. 

Firstly, I asked about the culture in a family. She described, in traditional Indian culture,basically women really obey to the husband. Especially when they want to have meal, a wife needs to accompany the husband first. A wife cant eat at that time. What she needs to do is to serve a husband like a king. They also believe about “Feng Shui” if they want to move to new house, it is very important to know the right position of each room. If it located in wrong place, something unlucky and bad luck will happen soon. 

However, they are not practicing feng shui because, it is contradicting with Islamic views. 

I was very interested to know more, then I explore more about her own experienced about Indian culture. She talked about the experienced of her relatives during first puberty. In a first week of the puberty, the girls ONLY needs to stay at his own room. She was avoided and prohibited to meet a man. Even her own father or brothers, she can’t face, talk and meet them.

  We want to talk more, however she have a mid-term paper tomorrow. so we ended the session.

FEELING & REACTION:

I felt impressed with her experiences. Even her parents is come from Indian background, her family is pious and very religious. they really practiced the Islamic teaching as a way of life...