Ashima Choudhary
Level – 105 (Kyle)
Homework Assignment – 2
Topic: - Experience on Culture Shock
“What is culture shock?” A culture shock is a term used to describe the anxiety, disorientation, and confusion of mind. Culture shock is the process of initial adjustment of an unfamiliar environment.
“Why we have a culture shock?” Individual person is coming into contact with an entirely different social and geographical environment. Experiencing a new society or a new culture sometime effect very bad for example 1) unpleasant feeling cause of sadness or depression, 2) illness or disease, 3) feeling of loneliness and helpless, 4) unexpected anxiety, feeling of disgust. Most of time culture shock happens with international students and immigrants.
My culture shock began when I had arrived to live in
Furthermore one day my husband and I went out for dinner with his friends. In the restaurant my husband started to introduce me to his friends. And suddenly I felt awkward and with strange feeling, because one by one his friends hugged me and kiss me on my cheek. I felt so embraced with their unfamiliar behavior. to them.” They were very friendly to me in very first meeting. It shows that I know them very well or they know me very well. After finishing dinner we came home and I asked Rishi. “Why don’t stop them, when your friends are giving me a hug and a kiss I wondered, “What is going on with me. Why they are doing like this. Why Rishi is not saying anything on my cheek. Why they are so friendly? No body is doing like that in
In conclusion, I have undergone these kinds of funny and at times awkward experiences. I learned to deal with a new place without any friends and family members.
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