Sunday, September 21, 2008

Cultural shock or plain ignorance!

Clarification : This blog is not a recipe guide and has nothing to do whatsoever with cooking or food or appetite.

Now that I have cleared most of your doubts about what the posts are going to be, I will get back to the usual 'anecdote' posting stuff. Like every blogger who has migrated to a different country... here are my(well not exactly mine) 2 cents to the classic American experience.

--> So its been just two days you are here and damn!! you learnt English so fast!!
--> Two of my fellow Indian friends tagged on facebook which read

" Eating their first ice-cream ever"

--> I had to argue with my manager that 'learnt' is indeed a word and that I did not misspell it :O
--> So.. do you commute by camels in India?
--> Nice costume! (its a dress :x not a halloween costume!!!)
--> well it turns out.. it indeed is a Halloween costume.. I was in one of the Halloween marches and found that 30% people were dressed like indians. 

Thinking of it sometimes, all of us are not so unaware of the life in the US..even back home. May be its just that we made an effort  to know for obvious reasons of flying dreams. This would probably provide an explanation to the two bizzarre ways of thinking, one fully aware and the other.. well as it is supposed to be.

Its just hard to understand if all this is plain ignorance or just a part of the cultural shock. I believe, we are going to ponder on that note for a long long time!!.  Till then... enjoy them!.




2 comments:

Priyakanth said...
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Priyakanth said...

Hmm u scared with ur words i mean for some1 who wants to come there...not scare but how insulting americans are to the Indians...

Nice one :)
All self experiences are touching like these :)