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Riding the bus after four months in the Soviet Bloc and arriving at night in Salonika, Greece, seeing all the brightly lit neon advertising signs of the west, was a culture shock. I had let my mind forget there were such things.
I think rural Spain. Very poor, it was very sparsley populated with houses that were made of shacks. It reminded me of the old west - I was waiting on a cowboy to come out.
I've never been exposed to Latin American culture at large in my life the culture is alien to me so moving to the US would be a culture shock being exposed to that culture lol.
That's one mall, this was miles and miles of the city.
Woodfeild mall is 30 miles from downtown...and its not one mall its pretty much every mall in this country...maybe besides the malls in like Wyoming or something. Malls seem to attract diversity here in the states
My biggest culture shock in any country is not the stuff that's new, it's the familiar stuff that has been adapted to the local flavor. Years ago when I first moved to Japan from the US, it was enamored with both big cities and the small villages. They were so much different from the life I came from, but they didn't "shock" me. What DID shock me was being brought to the Japanese version of Wal-Mart or Denny's. They just seemed so out of place that I had a hard time wrapping my head around it.
The same thing was true when I first came to Malaysia. I loved seeing the new culture, but I was amazed to see a Kenny Rogers Chicken. Hell, we don't even have those in the US anymore. My waitress was a Muslim girl with full head scarf serving me American style chicken with Kenny Rogers songs in the background. It just didn't compute.
Woodfeild mall is 30 miles from downtown...and its not one mall its pretty much every mall in this country...maybe besides the malls in like Wyoming or something. Malls seem to attract diversity here in the states
Actually if you include the entire city its actually more diverse...
take a look at this
31.9% White
31.9% Black
29.2% Hispanic
5.2% Asian
And I said ti myself, malls seem to attract diversity, in this case its mainly asian, tons of indians and east asians at the woodfeild mall
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