I am going talk about the "eastern culture", because this topic is very important for our culture to.In first place the arabian culture is very ancient, so they have a huge knowledge about science, astronomy, filosophy, history and many other subjects. This culture had many contacts with other cultures, so many of its habits were transferred to the small cultures that got in touch with it, like Spain or Italy. This, because the western culture was very separated after Rome fell down.
Then, the western culture (spain) transferred many habits of the eastern culture to other places like America, so we have many habits of the eastern culture, for example kind of close, construction, etc.
Well, you can learn more about this in the next web sites:1. www.revistaarabe.com; in this page you can find pictures of the construction of western places (spain)1. www.webislam.com; this page talks about, how many arabian habits were transferred to the western culture.