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Marital Culture Shock

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This is a more serious spin on my suppose-to-be-entertaining-list of things you’ll face after you married your foreigner husband. Marriages between two Indonesians with different tribes can cause problems, so a marriage with a foreigner means you’ll need bigger efforts to bridge the cultural differences, we did came from a totally different worlds so to speak. Although my past of living around expatriates did help to understand the western cultures, it doesn’t mean that it’s a smooth sailing for me – or for my husband. He will talk about it more so stay tuned. Marriage life means both parties needs to synchronize their differences and the process actually started before we got our marriage certificates. But surely dating and actually .....

Are You Americanized?

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According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, Americanized means: 1 : to cause to acquire or conform to American characteristics 2 : to bring (as an area) under the political, cultural, or commercial influence of the United States intransitive verb : to acquire or conform to American traits When I was in Atlanta Hartsfield International airport in April 2008 on our way to Indonesia, I chatted with this American guy (his name escape me) after he saw me arguing with the Korean Air ground crew. Later on in our conversations, he told me that his wife is from Thailand and they are all living there. He asked me how long have I been in the States and he mentioned about how hard .....

Reverse Culture Shock

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“Remember where you are…” that’s the line my father keep telling me when I started get crabby about how some things work here. Actually, it wasn’t until I met Melanie, an Aussie girl who’s been a teacher in Asia for over 10 years that I realized that there is a word for how I’ve been feeling in the past oh 9 months. It’s called Reverse Culture Shock. When Melanie and I had our chats, that’s when I realized that she have the same feelings as I do (she was en-route to return home to Australia when I met her) and it was like one of those moments where you say “OMG, you know, I feel the same way too!” Yes, .....

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