Biggest Culture Shock You've Experienced

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Biggest Culture Shock You've Experienced
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[@Thefoxthatbecameawolf]

Can we appreciate the americans reading "Cultural shock" and telling stories of when they moved from one state to the other in the same country ?

[@sunnyscott4876]

Unfortunately, it's true. I moved from Southern California to the rural south. It's been over 40 years and I still haven't adjusted to it.

[@MothmanOfficialWva]

To be fair, the regions of the U.S can be so different that the only similarity they have is the language. (And even that changes slightly with dialects)

[@MysticMorigan1998]

​@@sunnyscott4876 my family are from all over the south, we live in Alabama. My folks and I drove to San Fran and LA. Here you just strike up conversation. We were in a strip mall in LA and he just asked a young woman what life was like and such. He was startled, but then saw he was just a tourist wanting to chat. Here people will strike up conversation at random. We travel selling knives and crystals at flea markets and festivals, and just the customer and consumer base in each town and city is totally different. The Mall in Tupleo MS is still alive, but the flea market is shit. There's Ripley MS where the country and red necks come, and each city in the Shoals area is vastly different with the people who live there. Florence is wealthier and a shopping town, Muscle Shoals is a blue collar town, Sheffield is sparce and probably the most run down, and Tuscumbia has a lot of parks and nature with a little downtown.

[@MysticMorigan1998]

​@@MothmanOfficialWvathere's an island off of Massachusetts I think that they used to be absolutely incomprehensible to the rest of America. Just watch how Boomhoward talks on King of the Hill and try to find anyone outside the south or Midwest that can understand him.

[@MysticMorigan1998]

​@@sunnyscott4876and I'd love to hear your personal culture shocks!

[@oliviagore7067]

I thought the head bobble meant active listening.

[@adrianqx]

Went to France from Kenya and they kisses to the side of the face as a greeting was very strange to me !

[@hiroshi7025]

Yeah it's called "bise", from what I know, that's not uncommon in Africa either, at least in my country.
But the consensus was that you did "la bise" to either girls, close friends or relatives. Dudes had a handshake, a "check", fist bump or the likes.
Now we just do to anyone because we don't care or no one since covid.

[@BraveryWing26]

The story about the kind Thai people was so lovely.

[@tsumegami6535]

4:29 that caught me off guard.

[@vickiesmith3021]

Thank you so much for your video.

[@Touhou20246]

In my case I had the biggest culture shock in 2008 when I was a kid I was visiting China back the during the Obama presidency and I was so shocked by the culture of China that I was to scared to say anything to pretty much everyone else in China except for my parents, my little sister who was born sometime before me and my parents visited China oh and my aunt Susan.

[@stanford-nf4jk]

Mother is Scottish, Father is Mexican but I’ve grown up in the U.S. Some parts of Mexico have a one kiss cheek to cheek thing when women greet men. Even if they have an SO. It’s rude NOT to lean in. Experienced this when I met friends of my Dad’s and their families. In Scotland, I was surprised at how many different foods are fried and how much of it they eat. It’s cold and cloudy ALL the time. A day without rain gets people chuffed “delighted”. No love for the monarchy or Parliament. Like , they LOATHE them.

[@SurfNinjas]

Yay for lazy repost videos!

[@stanford-nf4jk]

@SurfNinjas As far as I know, these are re-uploads, as the original versions were glitchy and the robot voice would get stuck and repeat itself.

[@Kimbleespunchingbag]

I literally was recommended the exact same video posted 4 years ago, under this video 😭