Culture Shock
Culture Shock The United State of America i a country in which many people from all over the world come to live harmoniouly with each other. Unlike Canada, which i a multicultural country, it i a melting pot ince each peron bring hi peculiarity to enrich the culture of thi country. But thi melting proce i not alway without pain or hurt. I felt the life in Canada i more comfortable According to John J. Macioni, the author of Sociology, econdary Canadian edition. Culture hock i a tate of bewilderment, anxiety, diorientation and ditre a an individual uddenly expoed to a ocial or cultural environment radically different from hi own. It happen frequently for the international tudent and immigrant.
Culture conflict appear not only when tudent come to chool and learn new way of living there, but alo when they come back home and live with their own familie or their own ocietie. The reaon for that i the tudent are young and eay to change, but the adult are not ready to follow their example and adapt to the new ituation. When I firt come to live in the tate, my ytem of value mut change in order for me to urvive. When I firt came to the tate, I wa unprepared to live there, that why I alway uffer from tre becaue of culture hock. I feel that tudent-teacher relationhip in North American are not the ame a they were in Hong Kong.[由www.haoZuowen.Com整理]
Hong Kong tudent often have high regard for their teacher. In Hong Kong, tudent never call their teacher by their firt name, becaue it i not repectful to the teacher. Alo, they heitate to ak or to anwer quetion in cla becaue they dont want to loe their face in howing their ignorance in front of the cla, and ometime becaue their Englih i not good enough to form a clear quetion. And if they give the wrong anwer it not only humiliate them but alo bring hame on their familie. Hong Kong tudent were taught to be modet and not to diplay their knowledge freely until being pecially called for. All thee thing can lead to miundertanding ince my teacher thought that I wa too hy, or tupid, or abnormal. Sometime when being directly aked for ome quetion, unlike