Description : Have you ever experienced true culture shock, and what were the circumstances?
Last Answer : When I moved from Southland to Seattle and again when I moved from Southland to Chicago. In the move to Seattle, there was just something wrong the entire time I was there the first time I went for an extended ... staff is rude back! That's just how it is. It's their thing. What a bizarre concept.
Description : Have you been overseas and experienced something amazing in a different culture?
Last Answer : Bargaining. We don't do it. Other people do. The rules are set by tradition wherever you go, and you have to discover them. For example, in Bali the first sale of the morning is at a lower ... thanks , no matter how courteously, without giving offence. Just hum and little song and look at the sky.
Description : Since I was a teen I have experienced a strange, sudden shock in my neck at random times - Why?
Last Answer : Maybe there’s a nerve being pinched.
Description : How have you experieced cuture shock?
Last Answer : answer:When my family moved from Seattle to Memphis TN, they had trouble understanding people's accents. The kids as school said to my sisters, Hey, ya'll talk just like those people on TV. They ... box of Duz detergent, you got a flair tal (which they finally translated to flowered towel ).
Description : Anyone experienced near miss or escaped a massive accident while traveling too long?
Last Answer : answer:Welcome to ask-public. Well, does ”being in a massive accident and totaling a car, but walking away from it” count? Because I have totally done that.
Description : What's the most humble, and/or ridiculous travel digs you've experienced?
Last Answer : Mine was a hole in the ground in a place better left unmentioned.
Description : Being a Flutherite - What some people are going through right now, can this be compared with a culture shock faced by immigrants?
Last Answer : Good Q, even if it WAS a Y/N question! Yes, I think so. And we’re expected to conform to their rules…as it should be. Unlike real immigrants to America who expects America to change for them…..
Description : Have you experienced this southern "culture of honor"?
Last Answer : answer:Well, I’ma thinking that much of the Southern “politeness” was more of a passive aggressive way of making sure every one kept to their “place” in society. If it’s not too late, can you un-small the body of your text? My eyes hurt by the time I finished reading that!
Description : Locals/regular visitors, can you tell me anything about gang culture and gun crime in Chicago?
Last Answer : answer:I have been to Chicago many, many times - most recently last fall. The tourist areas (Magnificent Mile, near the lake, etc.) are perfectly fine and safe and walkable at all hours of the day ... particularly low income slums - are not wise. But why would you be going there in the first place?
Description : Do you think (road rules aside) that every country has its own driving 'culture'?
Last Answer : answer:Not only countries – I have lived in US cities with different driving cultures. In Chicago my impatient friends say I drive like a little old granny. In LA people think I am an aggressive menace.
Description : What should I know about Dutch culture?
Last Answer : I’ve read that the Dutch don’t recognize Halloween, so you might want to consider that if you broach the subject with her.
Description : Do your interests ever shock or appall your coworkers?
Last Answer : answer:That sounds ...AWESOME! I was kinda the odd one out at my last job too :P I'm sure I know I have a few stories of things I was planning to do that coworkers just looked at me like uhhhh ... like lobster, but tell a person you once ate a tarantula and they look at you like you have 12 heads.