And I Did Feel Cultural Change

And I Did Feel Cultural Change 

          Moving from Nepal to the United States was on of the most exciting decisions that I have ever made; however, I always wanted to come here in the United States. When I first came here, I did find many differences whether it was about culture or climate, people or their thinking styles. Everything was different from my country where I came from. Although there were lots of differences, I was not surprised because I had done much researches about American culture. Even I had conversation with many people from the United States through Internet, and that helped me a lot to understand their habits and behavior. I was able to find some similarities between the Nepalese people and the American people, but there were some differences too.

          The first thing that I have noticed when I first came here was informality and frankness for example, you can say, “hey man, what's up” to an old man without any respect or formality, but In Nepal, we have different level of language that shows respect for people specially for the old persons. It show friendly and openness of American culture. I have changed my language to little friendly way and now I frankly meet and talk with them; however, I still have my own culture inside me .

           Time is money; everyone here is busy, and most of the people don't have time to meet people and talk with them. However in Nepal we had much spare time that is due to our time management skills or we never been so busy in work I don't know exactly. People here think differently about time, and they make time for everything they love, but the amount of time is little because nobody here have extra time for anything not even for themselves. I have gained some time management skills and I turned into American air-- American culture--.

          Once, I was taking the bus, E line from Aurora Village to Downtown, and I was seated then I saw an old man standing. Suddenly, I offered him my seat, but he refused to sit. I was surprised because in my culture we offer an old person the seat first, and we take seat if it is not occupied.

I noticed that person traveled from Shoreline to Seattle downtown on his feet. I realized that Americans people like pretend t be independent. I like his spirit of American people , but if someone respect you and offer you a seat on the bus you should take that because its shows that you respect other, and you will not be dependent just by taking a seat that is offered by other people. I did consider that event as one of the annoying moments of my life in the United States.

          In the United States, people do respect your work. It does not matter what type of work you do, but how good you are at that job, and how do you perform it, only matters. I do really love this concept or value if American culture because I personally think that people should love whatever they do, and I do always respect those people who work hard.

          Of course, every culture have its own good and as well as the bad sides even my culture have some good and bad sides, so does American culture do. I am trying to learn new and better parts of American culture, and I do follow good parts of Nepalese culture. I am pretty much surprised by some cultural practices of American culture at the first time, but now I am used to of those cultural practices.

          In my point of view, developing your own culture that helps you to be a good person is really important. A part from that, adopting new culture is hard but when you will come here in the United States you will slowly turn into the vibrant American culture, but always keep in mind that every culture have good as well as bad sides, and every culture is different , so do respect each-other's culture.