Culture Shock

This week in sociology, we discussed the idea of cultural shock. Basically this is the idea of which when you are exposed to a new/different culture it shocks you. It may not be a shock of weird but of disbelief, because of the differences a society has that yours may not. An example of this is in India (as well as other countries) many of their meals are eaten without the use of silverware.They just eat their meals in a different manner than us, Americans do. Another example is one that we talked about in class. This would be the different toilets around the world. To be honest, I never thought a toilet wouldn't be the same as the one I've been used to, until today. In Japan they have a very particular type of toilet. Culture shock is a very interesting concept and you don't have to go to another country to experience it. For example, if you slept over at your Chinese friend's house, you might be shocked to see them serving fish for breakfast. Culture shock can be found on much smaller scales as well.