WEEK 4, POST A

This week I found another cultural difference that is common to many other cultures. This difference is the large extended families joining together for a piknic sort of thing. In the Kite Runner, Amir and Baba go to the Jalalabad to visit Baba's friend Homayoun. Instead of it just being him and Amir, they ended up inviting family friends and relatives. "The wives and daughters served dinner-rice, kofta, and chicken qurma-at sundown. We dines the traditional way, sitting on cushions around the room, tablecloth spread on the floor, eating with our hands in groups of four or five from common platters"(85). Another difference was how they ate. All together on the floor. This is very different from America where we usually eat at tables with utensils.