Sunday, October 2, 2016

Culture Shock

In my situation, I got a lot of experienced “culture shock” in the United States. Because I came from the developing country, so the main means of transport is motorbike and wheels are just for the rich. However, when I came to the United States, my first surprise is that most of the people traveled by car, so motorbikes are really rare. As a result, I had taken 2 months for practicing in order to drive a car because of three times fall. The big challenges and problems that I had to face were the language barrier. Although I was learned English when I was a child, I cannot speak and listen as a native person until now. I do not know how to learn as fluency as the native person, but I will study day by day and step by step to enhance my skills. Welfare benefits and food safety was wonderful in the US that I did not expect before I came here. And I applied to college, I was directed to receive financial aid from the state. Moreover, the food in the US is really fresh and clear origin. In my opinion,  Genetically-Modified foods are no longer produce in the US because there may be risks involved in the genetic engineering of foods.

2 comments:

  1. That was really strange for me too. Because in Vietnam all most people use motorcycle to move somewhere. But in the US, everybody uses car. It took me a little bit time to fit with this situation, and now I am really comfortable to drive. Like you, language problem is a big obstacle for me. =( hopefully I will beat it up as soon as I can.... let study to improve our language skills.... I believe that we can do it...:):)

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  2. In Houston, there has less public transportation. Especially in Cypress! There has no public transportation in Cypress. We have to drive our car to commute. We need to learn a lot of new thing in the USA.Such as driving, speaking,cooking,dating. In my opinion, those new things are interesting. I enjoy learning new things in the USA. I hope you too.Good luck~

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