do you discuss Ramadhan or your fasting with your colleagues at your workplace or friends/acquaintances from different faith?
How do they react? What kind of questions you get from them? Lets discuss
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Used to in first few rozays.
But now they all know. :)
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Used to in first few rozays. But now they all know. :)
wut detail did you give them or wut were they curious about?
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I love having discussions and all of my colleagues know about fasting and stuff. I once had discussion with them (I was trying to learn more about their faith, Judaism, Christianity ) and how they fast. We have couple of muslim people in our department so our department actually postpone their team events so that we can all participate after ramadan.
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lol, not really :P Perks of living in a muslim country. It's very common knowledge. A lot of my non muslim friends fast with us too on every other day because they enjoy it so much. Most people like being part of the festivities on Eid too. It's a good over all mix :)
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Every now and then, yes. But I've been working in my current company for a few years now, so people know about it by now. The discussions would be more along the lines of how hard they think it looks and then I'd explain it's not so bad when you try it.
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^ What do you say in return?
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About fasting seeming difficult? I tell them that it's not that bad, though it might look difficult until you try it. Then I also bring up the example of how even elementary school kids are doing it. If they can, it can't be that bad for us (adults).
Apart from this type of discussion, in the early days I got some questions as to why we do it and perhaps some details on when we can actually eat and when we have to stop eating.
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lol, not really :P **Perks of living in a muslim country. **It's very common knowledge. A lot of my non muslim friends fast with us too on every other day because they enjoy it so much. Most people like being part of the festivities on Eid too. It's a good over all mix :)
Ya stop rubbing it in our faces :p
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lol, you know you love it 
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Not really. Nobody really cares anyways.
They know Ramadhan, but most people try to avoid religious discussions due to everyone having rights and all and nobody wants to offend anyone.
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Its wonderful that you enjoy living in a Muslim country. But I have never enjoyed eid so much than in the USA. We go to multiple eid dawats on eid. People take a day off a lot of times even if it falls on a weekday. Most of my family in Pakistan say that we sleep in on eid day. Even for Ramadan one of our local mosques haas a daily iftar and women enjoy sitting and talking to each other after dinner before Isha and taraweh begin. I don't go there often but those who do love it!
lol, not really :P Perks of living in a muslim country. It's very common knowledge. A lot of my non muslim friends fast with us too on every other day because they enjoy it so much. Most people like being part of the festivities on Eid too. It's a good over all mix :)
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When I was younger I used to have to explain to school or uni friends. Nowadays everyone knows about Ramadhan and I think the only thing that people question me about is " are you not even allowed to drink anything?"
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My boss aand some co workers know, and boss keep asking for how many days left till the big feast, hinting me to bring some good indian food to office on Monday
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I recently switched jobs. The old workplace was pretty multicultural and majority of people knew the basics at least. I am really surprised that at my current workplace, there are quite a few people that I’ve come across who are absolutely clueless about what Eid or Ramadan is and what kind of fasting we do (the one where you’re allowed to have fluids/fruit or the total absence of all foods/drinks), why we do it, how long we do it for, etc. I guess I am more surprised because 1) Toronto is such a multicultural city; there is no excuse to be this ignorant about other cultures/religions, and 2) the company has significant operations in the middle east so one would think they’d try to educate their employees (I’m talking about top executives) on Muslim culture. But apparently not.
However, now that I’ve educated a few people in my team, I find that when I’m not fasting they are all on my case about why I’m taking a break. 
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The hilarious thing happened yesterday when we had a long meeting during lunch hours and the lunch was delivered to the meeting room. So when everybody started taking and eating lunch, i just excused myself and came out for few min till they settled down and the way these people eat mashallah, when I came back none of them could figure out there is one among there who wasnt eating 
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I think during fasting you guys get more offers of free food than other months…
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:D one time at work some one brought awesome cake and put it in the kitchen. It was ramazan.
I could not resist and took a piece so I could save it and eat it after fasting.
(yes you could do that when you work on place for long)
I was surprised by the time I was leaving kitchen.. people were already talking...
a- Isn't he fasting.
b- yes, I think he is..
So much so I had to stop go back and say... "I would eat it once I finish fasting. "
then they go... "ohhh"
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People generally have an idea about ramzan.
It get awkward though when they see and ask about the other adult Pakistanis who are not fasting because they simply don't care.
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I'm so sick of hearing this line, "You can't even drink water :O". And I'm like yeah it's not that hard.. try it sometimes. Lazy americans.