So I'm writing my draft for my Language and Communication course in uni about when I first experienced massive culture shock and it got me curious about others experiences from either traveling to another country or coming back to theirs. Did you guys ever learn to adapt or were you just counting down the days to go home?
Coming from a self-loathing Thai, I definitely know I suffered a major identity crisis when I went back to Thailand (I'd been so used to being an expat). People accused me of being a fake thai because I had the vocabulary of a 6 year old but butchered my own language dialect when I spoke it. The friendship circles were very segrated (kind of like Melbourne, Australia actually. Which was hands-down the most racist place I've ever been to) and I had no place in either since I couldn't speak Thai properly, the chinese all hung out together, and there were very few international students (like 1-2 a year) to form genuine friendships, and I'd get groups of people pointing and laughing behind my back or in front of me for the first semester I started.
I'm wondering if anybody else had similar cultural or language barriers they experienced and if you'd be willing to share?
Coming from a self-loathing Thai, I definitely know I suffered a major identity crisis when I went back to Thailand (I'd been so used to being an expat). People accused me of being a fake thai because I had the vocabulary of a 6 year old but butchered my own language dialect when I spoke it. The friendship circles were very segrated (kind of like Melbourne, Australia actually. Which was hands-down the most racist place I've ever been to) and I had no place in either since I couldn't speak Thai properly, the chinese all hung out together, and there were very few international students (like 1-2 a year) to form genuine friendships, and I'd get groups of people pointing and laughing behind my back or in front of me for the first semester I started.
I'm wondering if anybody else had similar cultural or language barriers they experienced and if you'd be willing to share?