The City And The Mountain

I spent my Eid Break in Lebanon. During my visit to Lebanon, I was curious about the lifestyles of Lebanese people. I stayed in the city of Lebanon, Beirut. However, we went to the mountains several times to look at the different lifestyles. I realized that the people living in the mountains have a totally different lifestyle than the people living in Beirut.
The people living in Beirut are more modern and their treatment with others is civilized and what we are used to. However in the mountains the lifestyle completely changes. The lifestyle in the mountains is more traditional; they are attached to their culture and traditions more than the citizens of Beirut. Everything is done in the natural way. For example, when I went to visit the people from the mountains the fruits they served were freshly picked out from their garden. The food they served were all from natural products even the vegetables was from their farm.
In the mountains the gender roles highly differ than the city. The man’s job in the mountains is to go out and work during the day to get money whereas the wife would stay and work at home. The wife would cook and clean and take care of the children. The children would behave in certain ways and manners depending on their sex.
However in the city there is not much of a difference between males and females. Both of them work the same job. They would both work in coffee shops and stores whereas in the mountains you would not see much woman working outside their homes. In the mountains the men have to show their full masculinity to be able to work all day long to provide food and a healthy living for his family.
The men in the mountains do not bond much with women that are not related to them, whereas in Beirut it is completely normal. In the mountains the people do not work based on secondary sex characteristics but they work on primary sex characteristics

. A female’s job is very different than a male’s job. The path of work is already made for you as soon as you are born in the mountains. However in Beirut, it is completely different because the path is not necessarily dependent on gender.