On 12th March 2012, IUM Rector Prof. Dato' Sri Dr. Zaleha Kamaruddin launched the Ummatic Week 2012 at Cultural Activity Centre, IIUM. A week long programme displayed the diversity and uniqueness of cultures at the University. The programme highlighted the cultures of various countries represented in IIUM such as those from Africa .such as Morocco , the Middle East and Asia including Malaysia.
Our mission to visit this festival is
- To get know each others by acknowledging various Islamic culture throughout the world.
- To go deeper the history of each country and understand their norms and values.
- To gain experiences through the interaction with the students representatives for each country (booth)
Here, we took some photos with them.
We went from one booth to another booth just to gather as many info as we can. Each representative that we met proudly told us about their country including their cultures and norms as well. They did not hesitate to give us their traditional clothes to be wore as to capture it as personal memory.
You know, if there is no such event like this, until now we will never get this useful info that is vital for us as a future counselor. Sometimes when we listened to their explanation regarding their views and perception towards their own country, our mind would be comprehend further about this opinion. For instances, when we visit Maldives booth, we discover that all people from that country are 100 percent muslim. And the representative from the country told us that their capital city is as big as UIA only. What a surprise! It is such as a interesting fact that we knew about this!
After visiting almost all the booth, finally we discover that in this world, actually there are so so so many races that have their own unique values like Malaysia, and perhaps more than that. Exciting, happy and thankful are our recent feeling that we got on that day. We knew that through this experience we will get many information that we think are useful for our career as counselors as we will deal with so many races instead of Malay.
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