What Is The Most Salient Challenge

According to Chang-Rae Lee, “I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.” This quote means that acquiring the social and psychological characteristics of another culture is nearly impossible if you have an energetic and dynamic mind. Additionally, it portrays that if you are trying to achieve a new beginning in life, every step can show a newfound outlook of viewing yourself in the world. Therefore, immigrants from other countries should share their life experiences that have a connection with their cultural origins, but keep an open mind, familiarize themselves with American culture, and use their sense of humor as strength, while doing this, and force themselves to integrate into society. These various acts can help a person from a different country adjust to living in the United States of America without having it be nearly unachievable.

After reading Varner and Beamer’s explanation of culture shock I was able to analyze my intercultural experience and can see that I experienced all four stages, euphoria, disillusionment, adjustment and integration. I believe if I would have left Chicago in the disillusionment stage I would have said my experience was negative, but since I stayed well after my adjustment into my new culture I now look back on this time as positive. At the time of my move I didn’t give thought to different cultures, I thought everyone would be like me, I know realize there are so many more aspects to culture, I don’t know if I could have been totally prepared for this experience. I do know in the future I will no expect things to be the same and be a little

Though, my unique personal story has some specific characteristics that may make my experience to be different from others. As I immigrated to the United States 10 years ago, I still have some issues of acculturation and culturally adjustments. For example, coming from a country that was initially consisted on socialism, which is definitely different from the values in the United States, cause cultural differences in regard how individuals in the society

Moving from a place that we are so familiar with into the unknown is a terrifying feeling we could experience. It is a terrifying feeling because we get attached to the place that we come to know and love. We are familiar with the streets that we drive on, and the houses around the neighborhood. We are familiar with the people around our surroundings. We know how to get from one place to another. It is a daily routine that we come are comfortable with however, we should always welcome change since it is part of life to take risks. It pushes us to come out of our comfort zone and take a different outlook on life. Although, it is a hard thing to do sometimes since we are close-minded and frankly, we are never ready for change. We fear what the outcome will be. Anxiety plays a role that clouds up our thoughts and prevents us from seeing. We cannot always be held in our comfort zone because one day things can change and then we will be forced to enter into the unknown and that is when culture shock occurs. Culture shock can occur at any point in a person’s life. Whether it is moving from one country into another or a new school or even a new job. Adapting to new things seems to always be difficult. However, after a while things start to fall into place and one begins to adjust into their new culture and environment.

When one first moves to a completely new and unfamiliar cultural environment, assuredly he or she will experience cultural shock and disorientation. Cultural shock can be from many different aspects, for examples, climate, foods, language, custom, social etiquette, environment and etc. Cultural shock might cause depression, homesick, confusion, sadness, frustration, in which one have to overcome when arrived to a new country. Personally, I had experienced cultural shock when I first arrived in America from FuZhou, China; I felt lost and confused. Similarly, Tanaya, who is from Kharkiv, Ukraine had experienced cultural shock and had felt unsuitable because of foods, school, living habits when she came to America one and a half years ago.

Before the age of 18, I had lived in four different countries in three different continents. After being uprooted three times and placed in a new world, I became comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am more capable and more willing to take risks and put myself out there. This comfort in new environments has allowed me to thoroughly develop my world perspective and adaptability skills. Additionally, I have been lucky enough to attend schools in 3 different languages and feel confidently fluent in each one. My father was raised in a poor town in Colombia and has taught me what it means to work hard for what you want, a lesson that was really tested last semester as a pre-business student. I am unable to describe my freshman year before being

have been a nomad since birth. My family and I have moved from one place to another to escape poverty and war in our home countries. We had recently lost my father to the civil war and my mother escaped Ethiopia in fear for the lives of the rest of the family. With the war progressing, we moved to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya in an effort to seek asylum. We dreamed of life away from war and famine, seeking aid in neighboring countries in pursuit of eventually arriving in America. We stayed in Kenya for another 8 years and eventually migrated to America. Transitioning to America, I had culture shock. I struggled with understanding where I fit. The move to America made me feel isolated, I was completely away from a place I once called home. Assimilating was the hardest thing because I felt as though it stripped me of my culture and with it my identity.

The first day I attended school, I began to see more people in my age, and I saw how they look different from me, in terms of hairstyle, clothes, and even the way they deal with each other. This was the culture shock for me because I didn’t experience anything like this before and I did not expect to see this. According to the website InterNations, “It is a phenomenon that all types of expatriate experience, no matter if they work abroad for the first time or if they are veterans in the field of expat assignments”. First, I started criticizing some of the actions and behaviors

Imagine picking up your whole life as a kid, or even an adult, and moving it halfway across the world. You don’t speak their language, don’t know their cultures, and frankly look different. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet a young lady who did this. She picked up her life, along with her family and moved to the United States. I interviewed a girl who moved to the United States at the age of 17, from Puerto Rico to Wisconsin. Although Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, it’s a completely different culture and it scared her. The United States is a huge melting pot country, almost 20% of international migrates reside in the U.S. (Auclair, Batalova, Nwosu, 2014). With that statistic holding true, why is it so difficult for people to do it? I interviewed her in order to learn about the experience of moving, the difficulties people experience when they go through the process, and after, and to find out why they do it. I also was interested in learning about the process of moving to a different place, very different from home, and how that effected their lives. The transition process cannot be easy, yet so many people do it, so it must be worth it in the end.

Embracing change and adapting to a new environment is never an effortless endeavor, especially as a child. Accepting change requires willingness and strength to understand, adapt, and embrace new cultures. Constant movement can affect our perceptions of how we view our current surroundings, cultures, and values. Interviewing a good friend of mine, Jonathan De Souza, I learned a vast amount about his home life, growing up in seven different countries, his big moves, and his views on immigration policy in America. Discovering more about Jonathan and the multitude of countries he’s lived in posed the question; Has constant movement given you the expectation to alter your identity to assimilate more to the current culture you’re surrounded by,

My Hometown country, Iran, which is also known as Persia, is a country with one of the oldest cultures of the world, around 3000 years old. Persia is an ancient land with a rich historical tradition of great kings, like Cyrus the Great, artistically carpets, and mellifluous poetry. I came to the United States as a refugee five years ago. It was a new country with a completely different culture. I believe for immigrants like me who grew up in a culture and then start a new life in a different culture, it may seem hard at the first, but after a while, they accept the good points of both cultures and change their ways of life. They may have challenges to make communication with others, but after a while, they can find similarities between both cultures, adopt the good points of new culture, and live a better way of life.

I arrived to the United States a few years ago from Mexico. I was a teenager when my parents decided to move to the United States. We moved here because my parents wanted to give me and my siblings a better education and improve our standard of living. When my parent gave us the news, the first thing I felt was fear, I was afraid because I did not where we were going and what to expect about the new place that we would call our home. I had to leave the place I grew up, my family, and my friends behind, and I felt that I was not ready for that big change. I remember the first day I came to the United States with my family and at the beginning it was a struggle to adapt to a new language, to a new culture.

My parents were more apprehensive than me. They believed that their son would return a much fairer, different, open and heavily accented individual. They had seen such stories multiple times on the television screen, and heard of it from other people, but never imagines it might happen to them as well. Irrespective of their presumptions, I ended up encountering many new places and experiences in just 6 months into this country. In this short span, I saw a tennis grand slam final, surfed, skied, gambled and even flew a plane for the first time visiting 6 main US cities across the country.

The scenario that can be the most challenging for myself is the one relating to the murder of a 4-year-old child. Personally speaking, it always considers an exasperate situation any case of child abuse or neglect. This scenario does not just tell of abuse or neglect of a child, but a child murder. As a human being, parent and teacher, a murdered of a 4year child is someone I would never want to encounter in my life. When it comes to children, any time someone causes pain to a child, considering that it could happen to my own child. In the case of this 4-year-old child, as a mother and a friend it will be very painful to know that someone close to me went through these circumstances. In the past few years, as a teacher in Haiti, many cases of children being kidnapped, abused and raped occurred in my school. The challenge of witnessing the pain of parents, families’ members, and friends was very difficult to endure. In that moment, as a human, you cannot sleep and wake up without questioning yourself what a child have caused to deserve such treatment. In that same moment you feel a sense of anger and rage toward the criminal. You think of all kinds of things you will do or say if you have the opportunity to see that person. But as a therapist, I would play the “opposites, ” which is consisted doing my work while considering the profession’s standards of practice.

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