Name: PHAN THỊ BẢO TRÂN

MOODLES 3 – LISTENING AND NOTE TAKING

CHAPTER 6 – BIRTH, MARRIAGE & DEATH
Listen and take notes.
Intro
- Customs vary fr culture to culture  bewilder’g to try understand traditions & customs of new place
- Some widely accepted custm & tradi of mst Ame abt 3 mst imp events of life: Birth, Marriage & Death
1. Birth
Bb birth = …momentous……………… occ’n in mst fam.
B4 birth: mst comm event: …baby shower……………………
– given by …close friend/ relative……………… of expect moth
– gifts for new bb given to moth @ shwr prty w/ …emotional expression………………for exp’ bb &
parnts
– lots adv for expect moth
– > …unhearted 4 man………… part. bb shwr now
Aft birth:
………religious………… held to cele bb bir
Eg. Chris bb ……a baptized……………in cermny, incl wash bb’s head w/ H20
2. Marriage
Marr. ++custm & tradi, esp for weddg
– Not nec for man to ask ……woman’s father………… permiss.
• mst yng ppl want parnts’ approv
– Tradi = man gives ……diamond ring……………………to his fiance
– Weddg
• Trad’ly, ……bride………… fam pays
• ……weddg cermny……………
o simple w/ few cls frnds & fam OR
o ……elaborate…………… w/………hundred………… of ppl

• …traditional reception……………… follows cermny

o simple: ………cookies and punch…………… in the house of worship OR
o ……elaborate…………: dinnr @ hotl w/ ……music and dancing……………
Popular tradi:
• ……shower…………… b4 weddng cermny: Brd 2 b recei gifts 4 new household, eg. …
electrical appliances, sheets, towels, pots and pans…………………………. etc.
• Tradi fr 19c England: at weddg cermny, brd shld be wear’g …something old, new, borrow,
blue…………………………
• Bad luck 4 grm if …see bride in her weddg dress……………………… b4 weddg cermny
• ………bouquet toss…………...: Brd toss bouquet over shldr; sigle ♀ behind get it  next
one to get mar
3. Death
- Basic issue 4 all tradi & reli: ………how to deal w/ body after decease person?……………………………
• …Judaism and Islam………………………: dead body quckly bur/put into grnd
• Chris & others: hold event (stimes = …awake………………..) at funrl home b4 funrl cermny  cls
pp say gdby to dead per
- Aft funrl sevice………………………:
• Held @ funrl home/…house of workship………………………
• Wrds of comf given by …religious leader……………………
• ……eulogy……………… by s/o cls to deceased per
- Aft reli cermny:
• Body  ceme to bury OR
• if body …cremated……………… ……ashes………… place’ in urn