HW 34 Respond to Riverbend

Although tea is very common in many of Americans life’s today, it is much more common in an Iraqi’s life. Americans mostly drink tea with their breakfast or to try and heal a sick throat. Whereas an Iraqi has tea with breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Riverbend, 100). Also tea is made completely different, in Iraq there is no such things as tea bags and they find them as a disgrace. They use tea leaves along with boiled water. But like Americans they discuss their day and what is going on the world over a glass of tea. The palm trees, besides being lovely, are highly useful to Iraqi’s (Riverbend pg. 103). To many families they see their palm trees as part of their families and when they die or troops cut them down it is tragic. Families use their trees to produce fruits and mostly every part of the tree can but sold for some amount of money. For example, the ponds and leaves are dried up and used to make furniture or other supplies, the date pits are used to feed the animals or to make beads ( Riverbend pg.104). So as you can see the Iraqi’s cherish their tea and palm trees in different ways than Americans do.