Saudi Behavior vs. American Behavior

  What does behavior mean? Behavior means, the attitude of the person forward another person and all people around him. Behavior is different from one country to another. It depends on a lot of things like religion, traditional cultural and the environment of the country. For example, we can compare Saudi Arabia behavior and American behavior in children’s behavior and family behavior and we will find a big difference.

    First Children’s behavior is a mirror of the whole community’s behavior. If we look at children in Saudi Arabia and focus or their behavior from the beginning of the day until he goes to his bed and

Compare it with a little child from America we are going to understand that country’s differences. When a child wakes up in Saudi Arabia and he is ready to go to his school he says to his parents with a quiet voice ‘’bye-bye’’. In Saudi Arabia our families raised us like this to be quite and talking with low level voice and be considered polite. Respectful behavior. Also, when a little child want to talk to a person bigger than him, specially an adult. He should not look at his eyes. It is disrespect for the senior. . However In America kids are louder. Children would say with a loud energetic voice  ‘’BYE-BYE MUMMY’’. In another hand here in U.S. it is very important the eye contact for people when they are talking.

    The most important comparison between behaviors of people is how they take care of their family behavior. In Saudi Arabia the Husband should pay the bills house utilities and buy everything for his home. The wife should not buy anything even if she works and has income or is rich. The father in Saudi Arabia is responsible for his child also for buys his needs until forever or he died. However in the U.S. the husband and wife share every thing and assisted each other for paying utilities. Also In the U.S. the father is responsible until his child is 18 years old. Children in Saudi Arabia are responsible for taking care of parents as a duty. They must see them or least once a week. In the U.S. not all children are responsible and they have the duty to take care of their parents.

     At the end, all these examples of differences between Saudi and American behavior are created as a result of religion, tradition, culture and environment effect. In my opinion both have advantages and disadvantages. So we have to respect these differences as it is and open our mind to get to use it, accept the person, as he/she is regardless from which background they come from.  And before if we travel to a new country we have to know their behavior and their cultural to avoid doing mistake our misunderstanding.