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Mr. Eihab Abousena Arabic Culture Through Film October 23, 2016 Le grand voyage Le grand voyage is a Moroccan movie, which was launched in 2004. The main characters in this movie are an old Moroccan man “Mohammed Majed” and his FrenchMoroccan son Reda “Nicolas Cazale”. The movie is about a story of a long journey driving by a car from France to Mecca in Saudi Arabia in order for the father to perform the Hajj duty, which is the 5 pillar in Islamic religion. Actually, the movie discusses some traditions th in Arabic culture through the father and western tradition through the son Reda. Also, it conveys the relationship between the very strict father and his forced son. Indeed, the film showed many differences and similarities between Arabic and American culture that is regard to pilgrims, family traditions. The Muslim pilgrims head to Mecca to perform hajj duty every year at a constant time. They are required to do it at least one time under strict conditions that they must have a financial and health ability to travel to Mecca. Indeed, the movie showed that the father asked his son to drive him to Mecca when he collected enough money that can cover their expenses to Mecca. After that, the movie showed some difficulties and obstacles that faced them during their journey to Mecca. Those obstacles had promoted the relationship between the father and his son. Later, once they arrived to Mecca, the father wore a special uniform, which are two long white sheets. One sheet covers the upper side of the body and the other one covers the lower side. The wisdom behind this uniform is that there are no differences between rich and poor or black and white. Pilgrims are equal, and they come for one goal only, which is forgiveness from God. Indeed, there are similarities between the Arabic pilgrims in American culture. Historically, some Christian pilgrims had emigrated from Europe because religious persecution, and they settled in the US in 1609. They were the first pilgrims who celebrated the first thanksgiving and it is still happening every year. In fact, thanksgiving is an annually national holiday or holy celebration in America in order to thank God. On another hand, there are some differences between Arabic and American culture that related to pilgrims. I believe that there are no pilgrims nowadays in the American culture and they don’t have to travel to a holy place to worship God while in Arabic culture, Hajj duty is performed annually in Mecca. Furthermore, movie showed the differences between Arabic and American culture through the family traditions. The son Reda was forced to go with his father because in Arabic families traditions, children must obey their parents’ orders and they can’t say no. I believe that if they say no, their parents would send them out of house as well as the society would not respect disobedient children. In contrast, American’s children have ability and freedom to say no to their parents, and they would not face in consequences from parents or society. I believe that individualism is obvious in American families. So, one can do and say whatever he or she wants without any fears of families and society. However, Arabic society is collectivism environment that the one would monitor his or her deeds to avoid a criticism and reaction of surrounded people. Work cited "The Pilgrims and America’s First Thanksgiving." Holidaysnet. N.p., 21 Dec. 2015. Web. 23 Oct. 2016.
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