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Reflection About Pop Culture Living abroad can be a great experience, that encourages new world views. Even though, Culture sock often affects people living far from home in unexpected ways. It is more than simply being unfamiliar with social norms or experiencing new foods and it tends to impact newcomers. I did not know why I felt sad when I arrived at Chicago. But when I listened about “Stages of Culture Shock” I said eureka, I am not alone. The most of migrants moves through for these phases. Everyone has a different experience also the impact and order of each stage varies widely. I believe that I am in the end of frustration stage and very close to adjustment. Although we can´t follow the mainstream of America culture, we shall respect values. America is as a salad bowl containing a mix of culture for example, in PopCulture Class have people from Iran, Turkey, Venezuela, China. I learned some aspects about their culture. If I want to say the name about a "fam...

Cultural Identity of Ecuador Cacao Tradition  For many years, Ecuador has been recognized as the largest fine cacao producer. Currently, Ecuador supplies more than 60% of the world cocoa production. Cocoa is the raw material that is required for fine chocolate production. Ecuador cocoa’s name is Arriba or Nacional, because it is just grown in Ecuador. Also, Ecuador offers a Tourist Cocoa Route, where visitor can witness the manual tasks that are performed to achieve the best quality product.  Art and crafts  Panama Hats  The special straw from which these hats are made, the toquilla palm leaf, only grows in the warm lowlands of the Ecuadorian coast, 100 to 400 meters above sea level. President Theodore Roosevelt increased popularity of hat, when visited the Panama Canal construction , and was photographed wearing one of these straw hats. Guayasamin  Oswaldo Guayasamin was an Ecuadorian master painter with th...

Hello POP CULTURE NATION ! My grammar teacher said "In this class all we are writers" So, I was writing about culture and this is the result. Enjoy my new post. A Brief Concept About Culture Some countries have a lot of migration of people. These countries are melting pot of different cultures, each it is distinguishing one societal group from another. Our patterns of behavior or thinking are influencing by traditions and customs of a mainstream the we born. We our first meet with customs and traditions is with our nuclear family. The process of learning a tradition and customs are simple because we live it daily and the knowledge pass from one generation to the next. As a result, we have a society with are almost same characteristic such as activities, beliefs and language. We can to call it culture. After, culture becomes the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us.  Culture is important because is the expression of what is in...