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Sociology Discussion 1. Please share with your discussion board group a time you have experienced culture shock. Be sure to include as many sensory descriptors as possible. o What did you see, hear, taste, and/or feel ? How did you deal with these feelings? Examine your thoughts and reactions to this new experience. Where do they fall on the continuum from ethnocentrism to cultural relativism? My first experience of cultural shock that I experienced in life was when I moved to the United States. I came from one the biggest cities in the world to one of the smallest! I did know that I was moving to a farm and that we would not have neighbors or a big city very close to us. My husband showed me many aerial pictures and family pictures of the farm and surrounding area but I believe that seeing pictures is one thing and experiencing it in real life is another story. I loved to see that we had nature surrounding us which was more familiar to me. Having the river close by and a trail that we could walk on was really a treat. On the other hand, I wasn’t super familiar with walking through pastures and having cows around, or wheat fields, or the sounds of coyotes at night for sure was a very new experience for me. I didn’t see that as being a bad thing, but it was different. I think for me the greatest shock was the language and how people greeted each other. In Brazil we are loud and hug and kiss everyone, we are very warm people, here in America everyone is more contained and colder as a lot people would refer to Americans in Brazil. That’s often referred to as a bad trait from the culture, which I believe is an ethnocentric view. Another cultural shock was eating out. I remembered looking to order fresh juice

or serve myself at a buffet to get a salad and I quickly realized that was not an option. In Brazil we have access to fresh food, fruits and juices wherever you go. As I lived here, I found that you can find good options as well, but at the time I thought the food was not good, so I believe that was another ethnocentric view I had about living in the U.S. After 14 years living here, I learned to love the differences and appreciate what the American culture has to teach me, and I also learned that we can adapt to live anywhere in the world if we look to the positive things that each culture has to offer and teach. I also learned that with each family culture and lifestyles will be different and that gave me a more flexible mindset when it comes to accept what is different from my own reality, which I believe taught me to have that cross-cultural empathy. When the clip started, did you think to yourself, “This would be easier to understand if the narrator didn’t have an accent?” Might this be an example of ethnocentrism in our everyday life? The accent was the first thing I notice, and I felt represented as I also have an accent, speaking another language is no easy task. I always make an effort to understand other people’s accents, because I do know how it feels and how hard it is, and how much courage is required to speak another language. As a foreigner I still do believe everyone can be a little ethnocentric about that. In the Brazilian community I often hear that, Brazilians think that our accents are not as heavy as a Mexicans for example, which I believe if you ask an American, they will think both are very close, and that sometimes can be hard to understand. At time marker 3:45, the narrator referring to culture states, “Nothing is absolutely right or absolutely wrong either.” In what instances might you agree with this statement and when would you disagree?

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