If you have moved to a different part of your country (or another), did you ever experience a culture shock at some of the different customs?
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I moved to california from PA for a while. needless to say i did not leave my home for a while until i made some friends. some of the people over there confused me but i learned to understand them a little bit better. Seeing as i grew up with amish the culture shock was that these people dress the way they do and also acted extremely strange.
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I moved from san francisco to Utah recently..Im having some serious culture shock...its VERY different here...
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I moved from Dallas, Texas to a town of 1,300 people in Kansas during highschool. I HATED IT, but now that I've moved back to a bigger city, there are a lot of things about the country I miss. But still when I go back I'm like "WOW. These people are so country. They don't have a freakin clue what life is like outside of their farms."
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Not a big move, from one part of CA to another, the only big "shock" was getting used to the roads. But in traveling to other parts of the country I've gotta say most areas run at a much slower pace than SoCal and it's nice but I wouldn't trade the weather here for the weather just about anywhere else.
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I found the 'neighbourhood' system in the US very jarring. I live in London where all races and creeds live cheek by jowl in relative harmony, but there are some places in the US that have become ghettoised.
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Among all countries in the world, India has the widest range of cultures, traditions and customs. It also has the largest number of regional languages. When I moved from my birth place to another within our state to do my job, it was not much of a shock. But when I visited other states for attending conferences, I felt the culture shock. However I could understand it because there is unity in the diversity of these Indian cultures. It made me feel proud to be a citizen of this country.
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I moved from Texas to CHINA recently...holy crap! I've been here six months and I've got to go home soon...Chinese people have alot of beautiful and powerful things to offer from their culture, BUT...they're more racist (nationalist) than even the most gung ho Confederate boys in the Southern US. It's an enormous adjustment even in a 'modern' city (Macau)...The restaurants have the lowest standards I've ever dreamed of, smoking, shirtless, barefoot, sweaty cooks grabbing with dirty hands, wiped dry on greasy towels...many of the toilets are still the 'hole in the ground' style...and the language is so vastly different than English (or any Western Languages)...it's indescribably difficult to wrap your mind around, especially while trying to run a restaurant and manage a team of cooks at the same time. Shock is not the word: Total System Shutdown.
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