Q3 Blog #9

This text was supposed to be about Bollywood, but we had the option to switch this one with the one on last Wednesday. So now this text is supposed to be about any aspect of a culture other than your own. So I decided to watch the show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. For this episode Bourdain held a competition for people to send in videos about themselves and the place they wanted Bourdain to do a show in. The prize was he would do a show at their place of chose and they would get to go with him. He ended up choosing a girl from Saudi-Arabia. He decided to go to Saudi-Arabia because he decided it was probably the place he would least want to go to, because of all of the misconceptions he knew he had. He wanted to prove to himself and the rest of the western world that these misconceptions were wrong. I think he made the right choice, because he got to explore the Saudi-Arabian culture which turned out to be much more exciting than he thought it would be. I thought it was very interesting that they have family sections, and single men sections in their resteraunts. This was interesting to me because of what the Saudi girl that had won said about it. She ssaid it was more like segregating the men instead of the women. The show certainly showed me a much more true picture of Saudi culture than I had previously known. I think the show was a very valuable look into Saudi culture.

"Saudi Arabia." Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. Travel Channel.