Brightman: MLO4
MLO 4 Secondary Cultural Knowledge
SPAN 395IP Islamic Culture in Spain
Walking into my new apartment in Realejo I met my soon to be best friend and best support for learning Spanish as a second language. Loubna is from Casablanca in Morocco and speaks French, Arabic, and Spanish our common language being Spanish was one of the ways we connected. My knowledge of her culture through food, philosophies through religion, and attitudes by experiencing learning a second or third language is how I first learned to appreciate the differences while using our similar interest in Spanish to understand one another. Our geographic distance from family and a familiar home brought us together and showed us where likeness can be recognized.
Furthermore, in the academic work at CLM my course Islamic Culture in Spain my intellectual growth has been broadened by an expansion of cultural knowledge. This course focused on the history of Islam’s presence in Spain, the Islamic community had control over the country until 1492 when the last Reino Islamico was overthrown in the battle of Granada. The detailed photos in our text books are instruments of cultural knowledge some of the lectures during class included music as an example of tangible historical and cultural evidence that has roots in the Islamic culture during the years they lived there.
The Islamic culture is one of the most recognizable and contrasting differences that abroad students may notice in Granada. Although the Islamic community no longer has political control over the country there is still a rich cultural history that is recognizable in Granada. The streets of Granada are still filled with Alcazars and Moroccan tapas bars, the culture continues to be a part of the communities of students and tourists that fill Granada’s streets all year around.
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SPAN 395IP Islamic Culture in Spain
Walking into my new apartment in Realejo I met my soon to be best friend and best support for learning Spanish as a second language. Loubna is from Casablanca in Morocco and speaks French, Arabic, and Spanish our common language being Spanish was one of the ways we connected. My knowledge of her culture through food, philosophies through religion, and attitudes by experiencing learning a second or third language is how I first learned to appreciate the differences while using our similar interest in Spanish to understand one another. Our geographic distance from family and a familiar home brought us together and showed us where likeness can be recognized.
Furthermore, in the academic work at CLM my course Islamic Culture in Spain my intellectual growth has been broadened by an expansion of cultural knowledge. This course focused on the history of Islam’s presence in Spain, the Islamic community had control over the country until 1492 when the last Reino Islamico was overthrown in the battle of Granada. The detailed photos in our text books are instruments of cultural knowledge some of the lectures during class included music as an example of tangible historical and cultural evidence that has roots in the Islamic culture during the years they lived there.
The Islamic culture is one of the most recognizable and contrasting differences that abroad students may notice in Granada. Although the Islamic community no longer has political control over the country there is still a rich cultural history that is recognizable in Granada. The streets of Granada are still filled with Alcazars and Moroccan tapas bars, the culture continues to be a part of the communities of students and tourists that fill Granada’s streets all year around.
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