Essay on My Cultural Shock Experienced in Lancaster, UK

With our advancement of information technologies, we can communicate with our friends instantly without the restrictions of time and space. Such instantaneous communication has the potential to increase the amount of communication that occurs among people from different cultures (Lustig and Koester 7-8). However, we are not able to experience other countries’ culture unless we have been to that place. In this journal, I will share my cultural shock experienced in Lancaster. It is a small city in the North West of United Kingdom (UK) which is a historic city dominated by Lancaster Castle. I am going to analyze my cultural shock by using the D-I-E framework. I will describe my experience in Lancaster in two sections, which are interactions†¦show more content†¦It is an obstacle for me to fully understand their messages in an environment that English language is replete with idioms. The D-I-E can be summarized as below. Description Interpretation Evaluation ï‚Ÿ I felt difficult to communicate with the local students and understood their messages at once. ï‚Ÿ HK and UK have different mother language. ï‚Ÿ Local students speak quickly, fluently and have some accents. ï‚Ÿ Local students use a lot of slang in their everyday language. ï‚Ÿ I do not have the chance to communicate with native English speakers in HK. ï‚Ÿ I am lack of vocabulary equivalence and seldom use idioms to talk with my friends in HK. Group Assignments Apart from interacting with people, I had also examined the students’ attitudes towards their coursework and their group members. It is clear that the British students are the majority while the Chinese students are the minority in the classroom. While having their group work, Chinese students were always left alone. 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