Tuesday, 18 August 2009

my culture shock



Recently we all discuss the topic about the culture shock. But what is the culture shock? There are many definition for the culture shock on the Internet, such as "culture shock refers to the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown cultural or social environment, such as a foreign country. It grows out of the difficulties in assimilating the new culture, causing difficulty in knowing what is appropriate and what is not. This is often combined with a dislike for or even disgust (moral or aesthetical) with certain aspects of the new or different culture." But as to me, culture shock materialize in every aspect in my daily life, such as food, climate, language, leisure time and so on and so forth. But I will emphasize on the leisure  time.

In china, the weekends the people will in the home to do some house working or go out do some shopping with the friends and family. But in london, most of the shops are closed on the weekend. But the people also go out to have their weekends. They are often find a lawn to have the picnic or just lying to enjoy the sun. And the parents are not just look at the children who playing with others, they always play with the children. The scene will moved me. Because in china, the parents just look after the children and protect them from hurting. As my opinion, the parents should play the game with the children and know what they think and how they grow up. Though in china the parents also accompany children grow up, but the style is different and then the result will be different too. Additionally in china there are many people do working on the weekend, they don't have the rest. But in london, I find most the people have a nice weekend though they have many work to do. They will put them for a while and enjoy their weekend. And I often see some bicyclists on the street because this is the life style to them. They will do some sports on their daily life. I think it's good for their healthy.

All the following are the leisure time in the culture shock, I will continue to write the other aspect. Because I should organize my report now. I am do some mistakes in my presentation, so I should do better in the report!

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