`` 8 Secrets No One Tells You About Being An Expat

Life is about making choices, but some of them can even change our life. Two years ago I decided to come to America for my higher studies in Western Kentucky University. Although I knew it was really a challenge to me, this significant decision that I’ve made was going to change everything about my life and me. There are many things in life that can change the course of a person’s life. It can either make a positive impact or a negative impact on a person’s life. It’s always best to have the positive impact though. For me I have had a positive experience that has changed my life forever and that is coming to a different land and culture.

When an entire people only care about himself or herself, what becomes of the whole?

Leaving one's own country and moving to another is one of the most difficult journeys anyone can make. In one's home country, he or she has a place, an identity that is

Little by little, as months passed by thousand miles away from home, I realized my mother was right. She told me once, “No matter where you are or no matter what you do, always look back from where you came from”. I did not understand her. I was in a fury. “I am not looking back neither do I want to go back from where I came from.”

Of course, I’ll inevitably allude to those facts. How could I not? Being lunged into a foreign country on the other side of the globe devoid of the comfort or familiarity at home is, for the vast majority, a “good experience”. How could you not “grow as a person” after learning about a new culture, and how to properly assimilate whilst maintaining your own? But I digress.

From my travels, I also learned that there can be more than one solution to a problem. Indeed, having a variety of perspectives makes it easier to come up with approaches to different problems. My travel experience has strengthened my interpersonal skills, as well as my integrity and determination.

Almost a decade has passed and yet, the daunting feeling of stepping off the plane, into the unknown remained. Thoughts rushed through my naïve mind, as the brisk breeze brushed my face.Where am I?Why am I here? Racing through the airport, I was overwhelmed as people paced past me, my mind filled with curiosity and my heart beating louder than a drum. Everything was new, the silence, the purity, the beauty.This new country seemed unrealistic to me, it felt like I was in a dream as I was introduced tonew things. Aspects I couldn’t understand as a little girl were all thrown at me in an instant, skin colours that I didn’t think existed, a new culture, and a new language which sounded like drivel. I slowly began to realize that this wasn’t a dream,

"You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see?" (Sun Also Rises, 115)1

Life in another country involves significantly different living situations, academic environments and social customs. What experience and skills do you have that will help you cope with such differences?

6: What are the clear advantages of global professional experience and living for awhile as an expatriate citizen? What experiences do people who have had these opportunities take with them into the rest

In this case “Kelly’s Assignment in Japan”, we have an example of expatriation poorly managed and unprepared. Different cultures, customs seem very important between Japanese and Westerners. Added to this barrier, we also not that there

Living away from your country can be a really interesting and unforgettable experience, but at the same time it has very important effects on one's life. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the three main effects that living in another country can produce in your personal life.

experiences both include the good and the bad side of being colonized, namely the many

As mentioned before I was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Aside from traveling abroad on family vacations, I 've had the opportunity to be exposed to several cultures throughout my life. I lived in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for 6 years due to my father 's work;

This report reflects upon the existing ethnocentric attitudes of both expatriate professionals and their families, and those of the host nationals. It outlines how the cultural differences and diversity of expats in foreign countries in contrast to those of the host nations, work in some cases to ostracize, and isolate the expat from their new community. This reports seeks to outline a strategy to bridge these cultural disparities, between the in-group and the out-group. This concerns the social, professional and everyday environment in which expatriate would engage and communicate with the host nationals. People are naturally ethnocentric, and the process of achieving ethnorelativism will come with experience and better understanding of different cultures will encompass a worldview that gives different perspectives. This report gives advice to expatriates and Host National Countries in how to bridge ethnocentric stigmas, and to communicate effectively to achieve mutual understand and respect between different cultural parties.