3 Cultural Shocks in America

Hi! I'm Gasma. I'm a 19 year -old Thai girl who used to live in the States for a one-year exchange student program. I went to Kansas staying with a very nice American host family and also attending to high school over there. My first month in U.S. was a special time learning something new,different(maybe strange),and exciting.
1.My first cultural shock was locking a bathroom door. One day, in my host family's house, I woke up and walked to a bathroom to get ready for school normally, I opened the door knob, gradually opened my eyes, and I saw something that I need to screamed out loud,and suddenly shut the door. You might be curious now what I saw in the bathroom, well! I saw my host brother being naked standing in there.OH SHRUCK! (In my country, you always NEED TO lock the door when you are in a bathroom, but Amercans do not;they knock the door and ask if someone in the bathroom. It was so shameless for me. Hahaha.

2.Second was toilet paper. For the second cultural shock was also related to bathroom. Americans use toilet paper for cleaning when they per or poo-poo but we use water instead in my country. And it was so strange for me, I still felt dirty even I cleaned up mine, using water for cleaning is so much better in any ways.

3. Shaving hair legs!!!? The last cultural shock I 'd been through was about shaving hair on a body(in my country, we are not serious if we don't shave legs). While I was practicing volleyball in the gym, my American friends asked me ''Don't you shave your legs in Thailand?''. I was like stunned and confused for a second, then I asked them what I should do and what is matter if I don't. Well! I learned that having hair on legs looks dirty(Hahaha I don't think so I think it's cute).Anyway, l learned to shave my legs since then Experiencing new culture was fun. It opened my world to know what people in another side of the earth do and feel. And one important thing you need to have when you live with others is learning and adapting to fit others because we all have different behaviours and cultures. 

Written by Wanwisa Yaemkhajorn 58030109

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