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Originally Posted by lebanese_a  I don't know if that only a Lebanese tradition but everytime I visit someone at the hospital, there is 10 people in the room 2 are seated in 2 chair, one is in the bed, One is sitting at the little "daraj" that gets you to the bed, and 6 are standing leaving a couch empty!!
Whenever someone new enters the room they all invite him to sit but he declines and invite someone else to sit (usualy the biggest), this person replies: "Noo I have been sitting all day" and the conversation moves on leaving the chair empty!!!
And there is the food tradition (lebanese "will cook a BBQ to feed 500 people when all they are feeding is 15.")
this one is also true: "-The conspiracy theory in Lebanon is a real tradition !!Everybody is allying against the lebanese people and everyone understands the whole political game!! ;)." |
hahaha ths is soo true , i thought only my crazy family did it!! its nice to hear wer normal(about the hospital and no one sitting on the chairs),
,, u forgot the tradition tht not 1 day can go buy tht u cant watch the news, or when ur at someones house for lunch, even after u eat 3 plates when u finish thyll say" shoo bak ma akalt shi!!", ooo yaa the biggest lebanese tradition is SARCASM, not only from friends but also from people u hardly know, i was once in my mothers village and a old man(ive never seen b4) saw my car tht i hadnt washed for 2 weeks and he says "shoo ma 3indkon 7anafiya be beirut?"
Re: Important customs and traditions in Lebanon -
30th August 2006
