{"id":59,"date":"2007-10-05T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T11:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T07:00:38","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-41-intercultural-weddings-conventions-for-accepting-food-my-big-fat-lebanese-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 41 +++ intercultural weddings +++ conventions for accepting food +++ my big fat Lebanese wedding +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-59-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_041.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_041.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_041.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 180px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Just%20Married-klein.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" \/>In this show we are going to look into which parts of our culture we have to re-think or even leave behind when we get married. We have entertaining stories from Lebanon, the United States, Hungary, and Spain and even from our own lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely Swiss-French-Lebanese<\/strong><br \/>\nOur first guest is <a title=\"St\u00e9phane's homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stefanbazan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">St\u00e9phane Bazan<\/a>, lecturer at the <a title=\"ciel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ciel.usj.edu.lb\/files\/en-pres.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Universit\u00e9 St. Joseph<\/a>, who is French and got married to his Lebanese bride in Biblos near Beirut. He tells us about the cultural conventions preceding his wedding which turned into a happy cultural mix for him and his French and Swiss family but also for his new Lebanese in-laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely prepared<\/strong><br \/>\nJennifer is an American university lecturer who got married to her Lebanese husband in the United States. She remembers thinking about what cultural clashes could arise from the different customs and attitudes of her Lebanese and American families. She even went as far as giving some private intercultural lessons to prepare her family and her Lebanese in-laws for the happy day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely Mars vs. absolutely Venus<\/strong><br \/>\nAgnes D\u00fas, Laurent Borgmann, and Mathias Knops had a round table discussion about \u201cleaving one&#8217;s own culture behind\u201d where they tell their own stories about how difficult it can get when two persons from different cultures decide to stay together for life. Finally they had to admit that sometimes it is not the national culture which creates problems, simply the fact that men and women come from different planets: men are from Mars and women from Venus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely Big Fat Wedding<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the last part of our show we will get back to St\u00e9phane, who tells us what cultural challenges he had to face before his  \u201cBig Fat Lebanese Wedding\u201d with 800 guests! During the process he sometimes felt a considerable cultural gap between his families, as if he was not from France but from the other side of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Our co-host today is Agnes D\u00fas from Budapest in Hungary, student of the <a title=\"homepage of Corvinus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-corvinus.hu\/index.php?id=7745\" target=\"_blank\">Corvinus University of Budapest<\/a>. You may remember her from the interviews she made in Ireland for show number 25. She will co-host the shows from Remagen until Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The next show will be coming to you on the 19 October from <a href=\"http:\/\/elgg.net\/annef\/weblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Fox<\/a> in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>So long\u2026stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Host of this show: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><br \/>\nCo-host: Agnes D\u00fas<br \/>\nEditor: Mathias Knops<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_041.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this show we are going to look into which parts of our culture we have to re-think or even leave behind when we get married. 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