PAKISTAN GEOGRAPHY

Visiting- The people of Pakistian are at the western attitude towards promptness and expect the western visitors to arrive on time. They are often treated to coffee and tea sometimes they may be invited to eat a meal. They talk before meals and they get up right when they get done eating.

Eating- In urban areas they have tables and eat with utensils or there hands, but in rural areas they set on the floor or ground they use there right never the left. The mother feeds her infants in large eating groups.

Gestures- It is not proper for the bottom of of one's shoe or foot to point at another person while sitting down. They set with there feet flat on the ground. They put there feet in a position so they dont point at other people.

General attitudes- Most Pakisitanis are muslims and live accoriding to the philosophy that the will of God is evident in all things.Fatalism is common in rural areas.

Climate- Pakistan is the size of Oklahoma and Texas put togther. The country is generally flat and arid. The Thar dessert lies to the southeast. The west is generally higher in elevation than the east. Most of the people live in the Fertile Vally by the Indus River. The weather is usually hot in the winter the average tempture is 50 degrees F to 10 degrees.


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