雅思写作高分范文赏析：Culture Shock

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Culture ShockCulture Shock The United States of America is a country in which manypeople from all over the world comes to live harmoniously with each other.Unlike Canada, which is a multicultural country, it is a melting pot since eachperson brings his peculiarity to enrich the culture of this country. But thismelting process is not always without pain or hurt. I felt the life in Canada ismore comfortable According to John J. Macionis, the author of Sociology,secondary Canadian edition. Culture shock is a state of bewilderment, anxiety,disorientation and distress as an individual suddenly exposed to a social orcultural environment radically different from his own. It happens frequently forthe international students and immigrants. Culture conflicts appear not onlywhen students come to school and learn new ways of living there, but also whenthey come back home and live with their own families or their own societies. Thereason for that is the students are young and easy to change, but the adults arenot ready to follow their example and adapt to the new situation. When I firstcome to live in the states, my system of values must change in order for me tosurvive. When I first came to the states, I was unprepared to live there, that'swhy I always suffer from stress because of culture shock. I feel thatstudent-teacher relationships in North American are not the same as they were inHong Kong. Hong Kong students often have high regard for their teachers. In HongKong, students never call their teacher by their first name, because it is notrespectful to the teacher. Also, they hesitate to ask or to answer questions inclass because they don't want to lose their face in showing their ignorance infront of the class, and sometimes because their English is not good enough toform a clear question. And if they give the wrong answer it not only humiliatesthem but also brings shame on their families. Hong Kong students were taught tobe modest and not to display their knowledge freely until being specially calledfor. All these things can lead to misunderstanding since my teachers thoughtthat I was too shy, or stupid, or abnormal. Sometimes when being directly askedfor some questions, unlike American students, which are more creative and canalways give a fast answer, I have to take a long time to think the questionover, because I was afraid to give the incorrect answer. Teachers often feeluncomfortable with my silence and tend to interpret my silence as an indicatorof my inability to answer a question. It's a normal thing that American teachersexpect Asian students to ask them to explain something difficult. However, HongKong students don't do this as we have seen earlier. Moreover, their feedbacksometimes leads to more misunderstanding. When teachers see their studentslisten to them in smiling or in head nodding, they imagine that these studentsunderstand the subject very well. In reality, some students mask their emotionsand just act like that to be polite, since they think that if they would askquestion, the teachers would be hurt for their teaching was not clear enough forthe class. I was having low expectation from the teacher at that time and thataffects my learning. I was stressed and felt disorientation all the time inschool. Many teachers do not treat their minority learners as intelligentstudents, and perhaps as a result, their minority students fail in their classes(Scarcella, 139). In Hong Kong, students stay in the same classroom with a fixedseat everyday in a same year while their teachers come to their class to teachthem. Therefore, students can have many friends who always do the same thingswith them. This helped to build a more close and stable relationship betweenstudents. Students are more interdependent. What are important is not me but we.In America, the people are more individualistic. People only pursue their ownpersonal achievement and fulfillment. Relationships between people are oftenmany but temporary or casual. I felt people only care about themselves and Ifelt that they are very selfish. At that time I always felt lost and lonelybecause I felt it is difficult to find a good friend to talk to. Relationshipare always causal, no one would even cares about you. People in differentculture usually have different values. In speaking with friends, I hadmisunderstanding too. I have a friend in school who was Middle American. Heoften tells people how healthy he is. It gave me a feeling that he likes to showoff. But I know he was not showing off, he was just like to expresses himself.Because traditional Asians often look down on material things and don't thinkthat these things could give them more value. So, I asked my friend the price ofhis houses, cars or clothes, and he was very surprised since people don't do so.Moreover, people there don't ask someone's age, for people don't want to showthat they are old. But in Chinese culture, the elderly are very respected forthey are considered as knowing the secret of life, and, therefore, wiser thanthe youngster. So Asian people are not hesitant to ask and tell their ages. Bodycontact can be another subject for misunderstanding. In my home country, peopledon't kiss or hug somebody of the opposite sex in public places. I was verysurprised to see people kissing each other in front of me. On the other hand, inAsian countries, homosexuality is almost non- exist, because even if people arehomosexual they will always hide it as a secret. So two girls or two boys canwalk together hand in hand and no one is shocked. But if they do so in America,their American friends will be horrified. The main reason that I experiencedculture shock in America or in other countries because I had practiced aparticular culture as my basis of reality and I am strongly attached to my ownculture. Ethnocentrism is the practice of judging another culture by thestandards of one's own culture(Macionis, 80). Ethnocentrism also generatesmisunderstanding and sometimes conflict. I agree that I am ethnocentric but Ithink ethnocentrism is difficult to avoid because culture is learned thoughenculturation rather than inborn. You never know what are people's values andnorms in other societies if you are not living in that society and try to learnthat culture. On the other hand, the idea of cultural relativism is that thepractice of judging a culture by its own standard. Which means what is right orwrong to do is only determined by one's own society. So there are no standardsto judge other societies and there is no universal morality. This idea may bevery persuasive and reasonable to many people. But I think there is alwaysuniversal truth in the world, we can sometimes judge other society in a logicalway. For example, today in Indonesia, Chinese people are discriminated. ManyChinese Indonesians are being killed, raped and attacked. If cultural relativismis totally true, then there is no reason for us to think that our peacefulsociety is better than the violence society that used to practice genocide.Despite all these culture conflicts, I managed to earn American way throughschools, colleges and become respectable citizens. Inside this country, therestill are many ethnic communities where people from ethnic groups come to sharetheir lives, trade foods, and celebrate festivals. That adds to the diversity ofAmerican life and helps mainstream American people to understand more easilyother people in the world.。