Reverse culture shock(EMOALERT)
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26 Jun 2008, 22:23
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Some of you might know what a culture shock is. It's what occurs to a person when living in a different culture over time, when this person realizes that he/she needs to live by and adopt these thoughts and ways of doing things that seemed so strange at the beginning.
A reverse culture shock is just the same, only it occurs when this person is getting used to his home culture once again.
I came back from 6 months in africa in April. That was enough to learn to like many things about the culture there, such as not having to care about time yet still always having plenty of it, people not being direct, people greeting on the street, people everywhere etc etc.
Now coming home it's the exact opposite.
What does this do to a person?
Right now I hate everything and I want more than anything to just don't give a fuck, but that I cannot do. I have to care about all these ridiculus things I at first laughed about people caring about. I have to run around watching the clock. I have to be places I don't want to be, and I have to be there on time. People look away when I meet them on the street.
Fuck.
A reverse culture shock is just the same, only it occurs when this person is getting used to his home culture once again.
I came back from 6 months in africa in April. That was enough to learn to like many things about the culture there, such as not having to care about time yet still always having plenty of it, people not being direct, people greeting on the street, people everywhere etc etc.
Now coming home it's the exact opposite.
What does this do to a person?
Right now I hate everything and I want more than anything to just don't give a fuck, but that I cannot do. I have to care about all these ridiculus things I at first laughed about people caring about. I have to run around watching the clock. I have to be places I don't want to be, and I have to be there on time. People look away when I meet them on the street.
Fuck.
We have courses together before and after our stay abroad.
In my case I was in Kenya, and supposed to be there the whole time, but due to the troubles I had to run away to Cameroon...
Animal behavior cannot be considered 'culture'
Goddamn I love being a part of Western society
And YEES, Kenyans/Cameroonians are way happier than Norwegians, that's fo sho :|
+a lot of children here because the atmosphere is soo much better here and ppl like each other.
Ye I live here.
It's like saying that a pink phone model X is worse than a blue phone model X, just because a lot of stupid blondes have the pink one.
And I just shot myself in the foot by generalizing blondes.. GG :P
girls would be a whole new subject :D
If I dont like to drive a car that doesnt matter i still have to sometimes :)
Doesn't minorities JUST FUCKING RULE?