OK,girls,I decided to start this thread in order to find another cultures and traditions!!! So,what countries are you from? And what are your traditions,specific food,music,etc?
I'll start!!! I'm from Romania,Eastern Europe-well,it's a very beautiful country-really-you should come and visit it one day-we have all forms of relief-mountains,sea,fields,rivers,lakes,etc-i guess we have a green country!!!
The rural architecture, the national costumes, the utilitarian units, the dances and the folk songs are almost the same as those 2000 years ago. The Romanian people experienced numerous barbarian invasions, and empires tried to conquer its homeland, but it tried to preserve its spirituality by keeping its faith and culture untouched. This is the way it succeeded in remaining an island of Latinity in a Slav ocean. The customs and the traditions of the Romanians are as old as the people itself. "MARTISOR" is the common name not too easy to pronounce by foreigners - of the month of March, but also of a custom, which symbolizes that spring has come.To emphasize this event better, an amulet has appeared: first a cod made of two threads of cotton, white and red tied to a pierced gold or silver coin. It was offered to children, girls and women. The color red symbolized the blood and life itself, while white, the purity of the sun and the first flowers. The gift was meant to bring health, beauty - in fact the three main conditions of happiness.
If you want,i'll tell you more!!!
Here are some pictures of my country,traditional objects and the village people:

http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/cultura/f_biserica2.jpg
http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/cultura/f_pereche.jpg
http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/cultura/f_piesecostum.jpg
http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/cultura/f_masca1.jpg
this is a wooden church-http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/cultura/f_biserica4.jpg

OK,it's your turn now!!!

cool thread my dad has been in romania once ..

ok i'm from saudi arabia .. and i'll be back with stuff (inshallah)

i agree, good thread, it'll give us the chance to know each other more...

i'll be back with infos about my country.."it's not like i don't knoe my country, but i like to br more specific about it"

OMG OMG i'm so mad

i wrote u a book about qatar and i was going to send it this stupid computer deleted it uh uh

btw nice country i'll make sure to visit it one day i'll be back after i write about qatar again ok

nicks girl i know how does that feel but i'm waiting to hear about qatar more than i do .. ok

SAUDI ARABIA :

Location:
Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, north of Yemen (click to see the map )

Religions:
Muslim 100%

Country name:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
conventional short form: Saudi Arabia
local long form: Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah
local short form: Al Arabiyah as Suudiyah

capital: Riyadh .. & good place for shopping : picture of Riyadh another picture


Holy cities: Makkah and Madina

sea port: Dammam and Jeddah


industrial cities: jubail ,yanbu


for more information about saudi arabia click here

Food: arbian coffee and the most populer food in my country is Kabsa



That's it ..

Oh,neketa,I know arabian coffee-we have imports of that and my mother loves it!!!



Besides that I guess I forgot to tell you something about our specific food!!! well,we have this food called "SARMALE"- (meat rolls made from minced pork mixed with rice, salt, pepper, chopped dill in cabage leaves);MAMALIGA- maize flour boiled in salted water -it is served hot with cheese and sour cream; with poached eggs or stewed sauerkraut, with sausages,well with everything!!!;POALE IN BRAU - small pies made from dough, eggs and cheese and fried in oil in a pan-actually is a pie!!!

my daddy really enjoied in ur place romania ..
and i hope i can go there too ..

You're welcomed here!!! We are very kind and we like strangers!!!

LOL
thanx sweetheart ..i'll ..

kabsa is most popular food in gulf too i guess thats why most of the ppl who live in the arabian gulf are fat lol

hi nicksgirl
where are u from?

i'm from Qatar

oops! yeah i know that

I also tried to write sort text about my country which is the Czech Republic.

Country name: Czech Republic (local: Ceska Republika).
Capital: Prague.
Government type: Parliamentary democracy.
Total area: 78,866 km².
Highest point: Snezka 1,602 m.
Climate: Temperate; cool summers; cold, cloudy, humid winters.
Administrative divisions: 13 regions (kraje, singular - kraj) and 1 capital city (hlavni město)
Terrain: Bohemia in the west consists of rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; Moravia in the east consists of very hilly country. 1/3 of the country is covered by greenwoods.

Poeple:
Population: 10.2 million (July 2004 est.).
Population growth rate: - 0.05 % (2004 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: 75.8 years.
Religions: Roman Catholic 39.2%, Pro-*test*-('")ant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%, other 13.4%, atheist 39.8%.
Ethnic groups: Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991).
Language: Czech.
Typical meal: dumplings with pork and sauerkraut {But I hate it :-( }; bunds with plum jam {that’s great}; fruit dumplings (mostly with strawberries or plums or blueberries) {that’s great too}. The czech eat isn’t much healthy….

Economy:
Currency: Czech koruna (CZK). …now (28/7/2005) :CZK/USD= 25/1; CZK/EUR = 30
GDP (purchasing power parity): US$ 160.5 billion (2003 est.).
GDP per capita (purchasing power parity): US$ 15,700 (2003 est.).

Map of the Czech Republic (click the link) http://www.europe-atlas.com/maps/czech-republic-map.jpg

Picture from the capital city Prague:








Another place of the Czech Republic:


That’s brief into into the CR. If you have any questions …. Don’t hasitate to ask me :-)

Hope the pics will to be seen...

Beautiful country,911!!! Now I expect to tell me about your traditions and culture!!!Kisses!!!