Project 3 - The Exotic is in the Ritual

I researched essays and theory works on rituals and ceremonies in culture, and found a piece by Gazi Islam and Michael J. Zyphur entitled "Rituals in Organizations, A Review and Expansion of Current Theory". The paper covered briefly some research that had already been done in the area, referenced other papers and people who I could look up for more information, and finished with the research by the authors.
Read the paper here
The piece that was of most interest to me was a section where a list of things that Moore and Myerhoff (1977) said had to be included for an action to become a ritual. (see page 120, para 4 of paper linked above)

I want to do rituals because they are the "exotic" within a culture familiar to us, and I want to compare two of the same rituals in different cultures to try to highlight this more.
Many people have afternoon tea, some with tea, some with coffee, some include food, others prefer to just have a glass of wine. But most people I've talked to don't really think of afternoon tea as any sort of ritual or ceremony, when you say "tea ceremony" people more often than not think of Japan or China. This idea that afternoon tea is not a ritual, whereas it rather is, is why it becomes exotic. To actually sit down and have a cup of tea, poured from a teapot sitting on the table, to have a tiered cake stand with small sweet pastries on, and to talk with those sitting with you at the table, it seems special, not like something we would do everyday, when we do, just not to that extent. We may sit down, prepare our tea in the kitchen and bring out a packet of shop bought biscuits while sitting around on couches yakking. The piece I want to design and create will show people that there is still that exciting sense of the exotic, of a ritual, in a plain afternoon 'cuppa' tea.
From the Japanese ceremony side it is a little bit different, because the ritual around tea isn't as exotic to those raised in Japanese culture, but it is exotic to us, raised in western society, by far more exotic, in some ways, as a british afternoon tea is. Though in some ways it is less exotic, because it is more well known as being exotic, that people become used to how different it is to our own culture.
By comparing the two cultures, I hope to bring about a more enhanced sense of exotic, for by looking at a ritual from a culture that is not one's own (this could be taken from either the British culture side or the Japanese culture side) people shall hopefully see the exotic in their own culture.