One tradition that immediately comes to my mind when I think about something which is unusual is our tradition of kidnapping girl. So it sounds really strange, I know, but it’s not actually so bad. So what happens? Two young people who are gonna get married, they plan their wedding type of the wedding I would say because there are several ways of taking your from home and one of this is kidnapping as I said. And so they choose one day, for example they can go to the cinema, two of them, or to the restaurant or it’s up to them. I mean they can go for parks or for mountains, I don’t know. And after they have done everything, after they watched their films, ate something, a boy takes her to his house in a way of kidnapping. Many people from other countries think that it’s really bad and strange, but it’s not actually because it’s all replant, all replant or beforehand I mean parents of the girl and of the boy they know that this gonna happen and they get prepared for this. It’s a tradition from ancient times of our country so it’s really hard to explain it to someone because they all always have negative opinion about this because they understand it as real kidnapping, not as a tradition. So when I heard about this for the first time, I also thought it was really bad that the girl should call the police. But now I understand that it’s not something to worry about. I think that this tradition is only in our country and also in Kazakhstan because our traditions and culture are really similar to each other and in Kazakhstan they also have such kind of ritual or practice. So yeah, I think that is the most unusual thing tradition in my country.
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One tradition that immediately comes to my mind when I think about something which is unusual is our tradition of kidnapping the girl. So it sounds really strange, I know, but it's not actually so bad. So what happens? Two young people who are going to get married, they plan their wedding, type of the wedding I would say, because there are several ways of taking the bride from home and one of them is kidnapping as I said. And so they choose one day, for example they can go to the cinema, the two of them, or to the restaurant, or it's up to them. I mean they can go to parks or to mountains, I don't know. And after they have done everything, after they watched their films, ate something, the boy takes her to his house in a way of kidnapping. Many people from other countries think that it's really bad and strange, but it's not actually because it's all planned, all planned beforehand. I mean parents of the girl and of the boy, they know that this is going to happen and they get prepared for this. It's a tradition from ancient times of our country, so it's really hard to explain it to someone because they always have a negative opinion about this because they understand it as real kidnapping, not as a tradition. So when I heard about this for the first time, I also thought it was really bad, that the girl should call the police. But now I understand that it's not something to worry about. I think that this tradition is only in our country and also in Kazakhstan because our traditions and culture are really similar to each other and in Kazakhstan they also have such kind of ritual or practice. So yeah, I think that is the most unusual tradition in my country.
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