Reflection of Unit 1

  In unit one, I have learn about the Culture Shock. Culture Shock is that feeling of disorientation many people feel when experiencing an entirely new way of life. Some people might feel confused, unsure and uncomfortable in the new country. Also people may have different values and new ways of doing things that seem strange to you. After I have learned about the Culture Shock, I know that this is a very common phenomenon between all of us, although we don’t like something we can’t accept, but we still need respect to different type of culture, because that’s what we have learn.

My Aha moment was when Gitte explain about the ‘’ethnocentrism’’, hopefully Gitte doesn’t use many difficult words to explain it and give many example to us to show the meaning of ‘’ethnocentrism’’. I didn’t expect that many people have ‘’ethnocentrism’’, I know that when we are learning different kind of culture, we will start to compare with our culture, but that will stop us to learning culture, because different countries have different traditional, and we although we don’t like it we still need to respect it.

     I didn’t know that why people in America always drink anything with lot of ice even in winter, because in my country people will serve warm drink to customer. When I realize that this is a part of America’s culture than I accept it.