Culture shock
Culture shock story
Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or simply travel to another type of life.
Have you ever been in a country, where “no” means “yes”? Being in a country, with different traditions and views about life, can be surprising and confusing at first. Communicating with people when you are abroad, is one of the factors, that can predispose to a culture shock, especially when the language, has nothing to do with your own. For me, being in Bulgaria is an experience that I will never forget.The bulgarian language is one of the hardest, having nothing in common with the languages in the rest of the world. Last year, me and three of my friends, decided to go on a vacation in Bulgaria for a week.We knew the way up to a city near to Sofia, but yet not exactly to the place we were looking for. Nevertheless, we thought we would find the way out through the road signs. As soon as we arrived at the place we started to look at and follow the road signs. Unfortunately we could merely understand them so we decided to ask random passengers. We asked 1, 2, 3, 4 people whether we were going on the right path to the place we were looking for or not. They all claimed yes, in fact we were thinking so.The further we went the stranger it seemed. After having past two hours on that direction we stopped to ask a fifth person. Luckily he could speak our language as well. We asked him the same question and he claimed all the opposite. He told us we were far away from the place we wanted to arrive to. Getting shocked at that moment we asked him what would be the reason the others would lie us for. He started to laugh and told us the reason; in Bulgaria, the head nod means NO. Tired and chagrined by all this, we got all over back to the way where we started.
From this story, we all got lesson for life.You need to learn a
Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or simply travel to another type of life.
Have you ever been in a country, where “no” means “yes”? Being in a country, with different traditions and views about life, can be surprising and confusing at first. Communicating with people when you are abroad, is one of the factors, that can predispose to a culture shock, especially when the language, has nothing to do with your own. For me, being in Bulgaria is an experience that I will never forget.The bulgarian language is one of the hardest, having nothing in common with the languages in the rest of the world. Last year, me and three of my friends, decided to go on a vacation in Bulgaria for a week.We knew the way up to a city near to Sofia, but yet not exactly to the place we were looking for. Nevertheless, we thought we would find the way out through the road signs. As soon as we arrived at the place we started to look at and follow the road signs. Unfortunately we could merely understand them so we decided to ask random passengers. We asked 1, 2, 3, 4 people whether we were going on the right path to the place we were looking for or not. They all claimed yes, in fact we were thinking so.The further we went the stranger it seemed. After having past two hours on that direction we stopped to ask a fifth person. Luckily he could speak our language as well. We asked him the same question and he claimed all the opposite. He told us we were far away from the place we wanted to arrive to. Getting shocked at that moment we asked him what would be the reason the others would lie us for. He started to laugh and told us the reason; in Bulgaria, the head nod means NO. Tired and chagrined by all this, we got all over back to the way where we started.
From this story, we all got lesson for life.You need to learn a