{"id":2361,"date":"2013-02-11T18:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2013-02-11T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:15:56","slug":"france-and-cameroun-a-comparison-of-culture-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/2013\/02\/11\/france-and-cameroun-a-comparison-of-culture-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Cameroun: a comparison of culture shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/t1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRe2YyvFL1_iryHYNPC_zUH3jf-bPeYxxOcUu3jMDMwlp23-vAEpUKZAcXV\" width=\"216\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having spent a semester in Cameroon before coming to Toulouse for the year, Nina knows well what \u201cculture shock\u201d is. She thinks that \u201cit isn\u2019t really culture shock here\u201d and she hasn\u2019t observed \u201canything as extreme as in Cameroon.\u201d She finds Toulouse fairly \u201csimilar to the United States,\u201d whereas in Cameroon, \u201ceverything is very different : the buildings, the language&#8230;it\u2019s very hot, there are people all over the streets.\u201d She remembers her precarious situation as a non-African woman, with men who cat-called her: \u201cwhite girl, white girl!\u201d She thus was able to \u201cunderstand in a visceral sense that we\u2019re lucky to escape this fate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of culture shock, her arrival in France brought on a feeling of nostalgia. She explains: \u201cHere, I see things that happen in my hosts\u2019 home and I start to miss my American family,\u201d whereas the cultural differences in Cameroon were \u201cso extreme that I didn\u2019t miss American culture at all, I didn\u2019t recognize anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent a semester in Cameroon before coming to Toulouse for the year, Nina knows well what \u201cculture shock\u201d is. She thinks that \u201cit isn\u2019t really culture shock here\u201d and she hasn\u2019t observed \u201canything as extreme as in Cameroon.\u201d She finds Toulouse fairly \u201csimilar to the United States,\u201d whereas in Cameroon, \u201ceverything is very different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4846,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-la-une-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}