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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:35 pm
I cant say i've experienced a total shock since they speak English in England and Scotland, but the weather was a drastic change!
I got on the plane in shorts and sandals, got off the plane in pants and a faux-fur jacket XD
It was so weird hearing the accent all the time, and it was weird not knowing what to order at a Chippy. I was there for a good 30 minutes thinking.. 'He just said to say a fish and a pound chip...i don't see 'fish' on the menu, i see different types of fish, what if they ask me what kind of fish?!?''
I know im so weird right? hehe -_-
I'm scared when my fiancee visits me he;s going to hate America, and be terribly home sick...
* Have you had a culture shock?
* Do you live in another country than you were raised in?
* Do you have a significant other from another country?
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:36 pm
Nope, but I'm afraid I will when I have a night alone in Cairo.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:25 pm
Well I had a cultural shock in Germany, me beeing Half german, I thought that germany would be like my uncle form there or my dad or something. But I found that people there are a bit more "annoyin." (up north) but I was calmed down when I went south the people is much nicer (talking about big personality changes). Not everyone obiusly, but more in a cultural way if you know what I mean. I was raised in Mexico and when I whent to Germany I understood the diferences between the two continents lol. Well In germany I have about 3 cousins and 9 uncles. (they say they are 25 or more, but I havent had the time to really meet them all.) lol but it was really intresting.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:15 pm
I recently went to el salvador and I didn't really have a culture shock.
The people with whom I stayed were very nice and inviting, and they forgave my error-filled spanish. However, some of the typical food took some time getting used to. I though the food there would be similar to that from mexico, but it wasn't. Nevertheless, all was well in the end. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:31 pm
I can say I pretty much have had it when I went to stay for like 2 weeks in Pennsylvania. Everything was...desolated, so empty O.O The food doesn't have the same taste since it has less condiment and everything is really far away.
I'm used to being surrounded by people and the sudden change of that was disconcerting. Which is mainly my fear of moving this summer. I don't know if the change will affect me in such a way that I'd leave everything and move again.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:35 pm
-Saphi- Yours Truly I can say I pretty much have had it when I went to stay for like 2 weeks in Pennsylvania. Everything was...desolated, so empty O.O The food doesn't have the same taste since it has less condiment and everything is really far away.
I'm used to being surrounded by people and the sudden change of that was disconcerting. Which is mainly my fear of moving this summer. I don't know if the change will affect me in such a way that I'd leave everything and move again. Im worried about my fiancee in a similar way. Hes used to there being not a lot of people, he comes from a evenly dispersed city. And where i live it's like in your face with people XD Hes also used to hearing his English accent, i think that will effect him the most. Having trouble understand people because they arent saying things the way he does...
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:33 pm
 أسْمِي نويل I moved to Georgia, USA. That wasn't so much culture shock as culture electric chair.
الّسَلامُ عَلِيْكُم
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:42 pm
I went to Germany for two months this summer. I spent the first month in Munich... It was different, but I really, really loved it there. It was a positive sort of culture shock. Then I went up north. That was a whole different kind of culture shock and not quite so positive; I wasted a bit of time there wishing I'd stayed in Bavaria.
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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:25 am
A few years ago I visited a friend whom her family came from Yemen. She was alright, but her brothers commented of anything I have done by, “What an Ashkenazi trick!” or “So that is how Ashkenazis doing this!”, and was often asked how do us, Ashkenazis, call to some sorts of things.
I still can’t tell whether it was a cultural shock or just a trauma, but I felt like an animal in zoo back then. stare
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