Friday, May 2, 2008

Journal #20

shaking hand

After I came to The Unite Stated, I have a lot of culture shock experience between Thai culture and American culture. The one of my unacceptable behavior American cultures is shake hand. It is a polite way to begin communicating with another people in here, but Thai culture has never touched each other hands when we meet. We have a special way to show our culture by same purpose but different position of hands. We will put our hands together at our chest and bow our head a little bit to touch our hands. So when I have to meet new American person, I am really uncomfortable to communicate with them especially a guy. The first time, I have to shake my conversation partner hand who is a guy I feel so embarrassed.