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Culture shock
Culture shock exists commonly when students do overseas to learn. It is usually caused by the change of society you live in. When you experienced the culture shock, you cannot adapt to native habit which are main six symbol things. They are food（utensils and staple）, language(English and Chinese ), manners/behaviors, fashion, celebration/relaxation activity(such as Spring Festival and Christmas), climate, values and social roles. They related to every part of your life. In that condition, you will feel you can’t be accepted by this new society or it leaves you on purpose. Another way of saying this, you will have multiple differences of lifestyle between local people and that make you angry and upset. The reasons causing this problem is various. To begin with, you are not familiar with anything so you don’t know how to deal with them. As a result, you will feel lonely, helpless and begin to miss hometown. Furthermore, in the new cultural environment, the methods you deal with things can’t follow your original ones so that may cause some problems and may also be shocked by local people’s habit. In addition, perhaps the native diet, climate and local people that make you are interested in at first will all be boring or even terrible as time went by，in this case, you will begin to miss your family and hometown diet. For these reasons, student will have the culture shock.
I have experienced culture shock deeply in Tibet last summer holiday. First of all, their food nearly can’t be eaten because they can’t cook the food entirely ripe in high altitude area. To be honest, the most delicious food there is instant noodles. Second, I evidently can’t understand their language, but Tibetan in the city mostly can speak mandarin so that doesn’t give me much trouble. Third, I don’t think they can realize the meaning of word “fashion”, the villagers always wear dirty clothes except in their festival. Third, almost every Tibetan is Buddhist, they are very pure and
Culture shock exists commonly when students do overseas to learn. It is usually caused by the change of society you live in. When you experienced the culture shock, you cannot adapt to native habit which are main six symbol things. They are food（utensils and staple）, language(English and Chinese ), manners/behaviors, fashion, celebration/relaxation activity(such as Spring Festival and Christmas), climate, values and social roles. They related to every part of your life. In that condition, you will feel you can’t be accepted by this new society or it leaves you on purpose. Another way of saying this, you will have multiple differences of lifestyle between local people and that make you angry and upset. The reasons causing this problem is various. To begin with, you are not familiar with anything so you don’t know how to deal with them. As a result, you will feel lonely, helpless and begin to miss hometown. Furthermore, in the new cultural environment, the methods you deal with things can’t follow your original ones so that may cause some problems and may also be shocked by local people’s habit. In addition, perhaps the native diet, climate and local people that make you are interested in at first will all be boring or even terrible as time went by，in this case, you will begin to miss your family and hometown diet. For these reasons, student will have the culture shock.
I have experienced culture shock deeply in Tibet last summer holiday. First of all, their food nearly can’t be eaten because they can’t cook the food entirely ripe in high altitude area. To be honest, the most delicious food there is instant noodles. Second, I evidently can’t understand their language, but Tibetan in the city mostly can speak mandarin so that doesn’t give me much trouble. Third, I don’t think they can realize the meaning of word “fashion”, the villagers always wear dirty clothes except in their festival. Third, almost every Tibetan is Buddhist, they are very pure and