Marie Yang

Marie Yang
10/05/09
Cultural Shock

I had few cultural shock after I came to America. The one I surprised it is American called each other’s name. It doesn’t matter whatever they are older or younger. It seems they don’t respect each other. It looks really rude to me. In Korea, even if they are years older than you, you have to bow to them. Specially, in the school. Another shock was students have a lot of choices to do. In Korea, we had limited subjects and time. We had to study what school choose, and we had to study in the school untill 10pm. Otherwise, American students can choose their subjects and they have long leisure hours. So, they can use leisure hours for play sports. Other shock was they blow their nose on the meal. Why it is okay to blow their nose on the meal, but it’s not okay to talk with food? The next shock was they are not shame about gay. In Asia, even if they are gay, we are shame about it. Other shock was licnese what I jealous about. American teenagers can get their license when they turn to 16. The last thing is their driving. American drive their car carefully and they keep the rules really well. Also, even if people seat in the back, they buckled up. In Korea, all people drive crazyly. They don’t keep the traffic rule. So, we have a lot of traffic accident. But still Korean don’t care about it.