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DQ cultural Anthropology

DQ cultural Anthropology

Q Briefly describe a personal experience of "culture shock". Perhaps while traveling abroad, you were surprised or confused about another culture's way of life. What behavior was shocking to you? How did you respond? Did you have ethnocentric thoughts? If you haven't experienced culture shock and if you can't recall a time when you behaved/thought ethnocentrically, can you think of a time when someone else judged you based on their own culture's standards? How did that make you feel?

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I would love to share my views about an incident of cultural shock that I felt during my trip to Japan. I was in Japan for a few months as I was taking a course there. I would say that the Japanese culture is completely different from the American culture. They are much more reserved and organized than American people as we are more extroverts. I noticed that as I entered the classroom of the institution from which I was doing the course; everyone was seating quite calmly things and minding their own businesses. Everything was very peaceful and calm and everyone left after the class without having any type conversation with each other. It is not that they do not help others but they prefer to mind their own business for most of the time.