'Cultural Differences Between France and Middle-East (Maghreb)\r'

' tungstenern europiuman culture (France) Over the away 500 years, France has been a major power with impregnable cultural, economic, military and political make in Europe and in the world. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, France make the second largest empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and teleph unrivalled exchange Africa, Southeast Asia. by and by the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, the dogmatic monarchy was abolished and France became a constitutional monarchy. Through the Declaration of the Rights of opus and of the Citizen, France established funda workforcetal rights for french citizens and all men without exception.\r\nThe Declaration affirms â€Å"the natural and imprescriptible rights of man” to â€Å"liberty, property, security and foe to oppression”. Freedom of speech and press were declared, and commanding arrests outlawed. Government The French Republic is a one(a) semi-presidential republic with str ong democratic traditions. Demographics With an estimated creation of 65. 8  zillion community (as of 1 Jan. 2011), France is the 20th to a greater extent or less populous country in the world. In 2004, a total of 140,033 people immig calculated to France.\r\nOf them, 90,250 were from Africa and 13,710 from Europe. In 2008, France granted citizenship to 137,000 persons, broadly to people from Morocco, Algeria and Turkey. It is illegal for the French state to take in data on ethnicity and race, a law with its origins in the 1789 revolution and reaffirmed in the constitution of 1958.. While ordained data on the size of the countrys ethnic minorities is not available, it has been estimated that between three billion and six million people are of North African ocellus while an estimated 2.  million people are of raw African ancestry. It is currently estimated that 40% of the French population is descended at least partially from the different waves of in-migration the co untry has received. Between 1921 and 1935 about 1. 1 million net immigrants came to France. Religion Roman Catholicism has been the prevailing religion in France for more than a millennium, though it is not as actively practiced at once as it once was. According to a January 2007 canvas by the Catholic World News †51% identify s be Catholics, 31% set as being agnostics or atheists 10% determine as being from other religions or being without opinion, 4% identified as Muslim, 3% identified as Protestant, 1% identified as Buddhist, 1% identified as Jewish. So we could see that France is one of the most multi populational and multicultural countries in Europe. The primary(prenominal) motivation for the law seems to be Sarkozy’s lust to do something to improve his dismal approval ratings. By appearing tough on Muslims he, perhaps, can prevent the growing appeal of the right. His military adventures in Libya overly seem calculated to that end.\r\nObviously enough, this reason simply justifies the law. Middle Eastern culture (Maghreb from Arabic †‘West’) Actually in our case we will piffle mostly about the region of Northwest Africa called Maghreb ( withal Maghrib). It includes fivesome countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Because of Sahara desert get to between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa is limited. That’s why the biggest influence was coming from Middle Eastern cultures. The Arabs reached Maghreb in seventh century and brought their give birth religion Islam and Arabic language.\r\nAfter the 19th century, areas of the Maghreb were colonized by France, Spain and later Italy. In 1950th and beginning of 1960th all five countries became independent with their own government and low which is similar to French arranging board. Today more than two and a half(a) million Maghrebi immigrants live in France, especially from Algeria and Morocco. In addition, there are 3 million French of Maghrebi origin (in 1999) (with at least one grand-parent from Algeria, Morocco or Tunisia) Family is extremely important in Asian cultures with often time importance being placed on the old members of the family.\r\nThe elderly are much revered in Asian society and it needs to be verbalise that we dont show the same respect to the elderly in Western culture. Approximately 5 -10% of the adult population in North Africa is illiterate. In the majority of Asian countries the social infrastructure is set in a class system and it really is the poor versus the laden with little opportunity to rise above pauperization line certain Asian countries the name attached to you at birth depicts where you are placed as a person in the scheme of things. capital tends to bypass he general populace in regards to support systems, such as improving hospitals, availableness of fresh water, and implementing crisis agencies or whatever is required to chan ge people to seek shelter in times of need. All these things are high on the constitute of priorities and available in most Western cultures. We also take advantage of the fact that due to the rate of cheap labor in Asian countries it is more economical for Western businesses to manufacture goods offshore, so their advantage margins are increased. Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia are all republican democracies, marrow they are governed by elected legislative bodies.\r\n two Algeria and Egypt have two-chambered legislatures while Tunisia is unicameral. Libya is a whimsical government in the region for two reasons. First, in theory, it is a socialist democracy in which people govern themselves through local political councils. Second, though these councils do exist and function, in reality the nation is governed by a military dictatorship which hasn’t changed since it took over in 1969 when cornel Muammar Quadhafi took power in a military coup. Morocco is a constitutional monarc hy with bicameral parlament.\r\n'