Since an anthropologist
point of view, a cultural shock could be a person who leaves his or her reality
and normal life to get into other one. Or people who meet other different people;
this would be a shock for both groups and could finish in other cultural group
different from the previous.
I could say
that I suffered a kind of cultural shock because I was born in Talca, then I
lived in Antofagasta and Rancagua. Now I am living in Santiago. In every city I
have seen different persons.
It is true that in every places are people of all kind, but it is also true than there is a seal of culture on each city.
It is true that in every places are people of all kind, but it is also true than there is a seal of culture on each city.
It is hard
to suffer a cultural shock because you are not pretty sure of how you are supposed
to act in a specific situation.
For
example, the transport is different in every place. In Talca I can take busses
until 10 o’clock, after that you must take a different kind of transportation (a
more expensive one), in Rancagua any one is very expensive and there are few
busses. In Santiago, there are busses at any hour.
You could
think, then, Santiago is better, ¡but it has strange circuits! I’m trying to
get used into their rounds, but it is very hard. Maybe it is because Santiago
is so much bigger than Talca or Rancagua.
Anyway, I am pretty sure I will leave this place to suffer another cultural shock again.
Oh! that's a true experience of cultural shock! but, we want to be antrhopologist, so this would be very common in our lives.
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I think in Talca, Antofagasta and Santiago like cities very differents, but I think that it was a experience very interesting too, not everyone can relate the same :)
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