University of Virginia Spanish Speaking Culture Essay

Select a cultural topic that fascinates you or is strongly connected to your studies. Make sure that it is one about which you can make significant comparisons and contrasts with your own/home culture. Choose a product, practice (festivals, holidays, customs, etc.), or personal experience related to a Spanish-speaking culture or cultures. Products are cultural items such as arts and crafts, foods, laws, dress, types of dwellings, and music. Practices are patterns of social interactions such as festivals, customs, holidays, social gatherings, greetings, social movements and/or traditions. If you are short on ideas, you might consider investigating further a topic you studied in Contraseña.