Experiencing the Culture Shock phenomenon

I have been very lucky having or experiencing the Culture Shock phenomenon; I have had a chance to travel, so every country I have visited had experienced this phenomenon. People are very different around the world; their personal cultural habits could shock us. The language, the food, and the way they live and how they act, impact our feelings. When I have to travel, I try to accept the food, and sometimes try many rare meals. I remember in Mexico, I tried “Escamoles”, they are escamule in English or “ant larva’s”, I didn´t like at first, but they are much tasted, that´s the way I deal with culture shock.

I really recommend to the people who are suffering of culture shock, that there is only a chance in the life, don´t waste it, thinking of mom, think about what you haven´t seen yet.

I tell my children, they have to study, work and travel, the rest comes alone.

The story of my name W5 Homework - Ronald Delgado

I didn´t understand why do I have an American name if I live in a Latin American country, it is not a good idea to name children with foreign names. In my case, there was very common forty or fifty years ago, that the father used to name the children, not the mother.

Ronald was a name that liked to a very close friend of my father, well, that was the story that my mother told me about my name. I don´t really like my name, many of my friends call me Ronaldo, or Ronaldinho and I understand that, because it is very easy for Latin American speakers finishing the names in vowels, not in consonant different of “n” and “s”.

I didn´t mistake with the name of my children, Maria del Mar, Camila and Sofia; they are a very Latin names, and I really like them.

I don´t know how, but in my wife family, all the names are American or European names, may be cause some of them are Jehovah's Witnesses, that is the reason that I suppose. I hate that custom. I prefer the names according with the culture where you are coming from.

“Ronald meaning and name origin

Ronald \r(o)-na-ld\ as a boy's name is pronounced RAH-nald. It is of Old Norse origin, and the meaning of Ronald is "ruler's counselor". Also possibly from the same root as Reginald and Reynold. Ronald emerged among the Scots, and was not widely used in the rest of the English-speaking world until the end of the 19th century. Ranald is a Scottish form, Ronaldo is Spanish. American President Ronald Reagan; clown Ronald McDonald.

Ronald has 12 variant forms: Ranald, Renaldo, Ron, Ronal, Ronaldo, Rondale, Roneld, Ronell, Ronello, Ronn, Ronnie and Ronny.”

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Ronald


If I had to invent a name for my alter-ego, I would choose Pedro Pablo, wonderful, isn´t it?

Personal Culture W4 Homework _ Ronald Delgado

This time, I'd like you to talk about my own personal "culture."

It is necessary before talking about personal culture, talking about values. The value is a concept that describes people beliefs, and how people could act in a specific situation. All depend on the personal culture, but before having our own background that could eventually describe our personal culture; we had or inherited values from our family. So I think we are a mirror of our parents our personal culture describes where and who we come from.

Some of these values are moral, doctrinal, ideological, political and religious, they persist in all our life, everything we get cause of learning and reading are a complement of our values.

Some aspects that characterize our personal culture are:

Moral aspects: how do we perceive the behaviors of different people, if we could accept some situations that compared with our own behaves, would be an acceptable, but we have the open-minded enough taking it easy, and be conscious on the same time.

Ideological: We also have to manage all of our thoughts related with politics, economics, and religion. It is very common to meet people who don´t believe in God; we have to get away with that situation despite of our ideological values. It is more important the friendship and relationship that diverging of thoughts.
Sometimes it is very hard to keep a good relationship with foreign people; personal culture is representative between two or more groups. You have to persuade people of keeping away racial differences, and trying to share ideas for solving the main topic or goal you have.

In my case, I try to learn from other people, keeping away racial differences, and getting from them the good ideas or recommendation for making easier all in my life, improving my skills and sometimes discussing relevant topics.
Nothing is enough when you try to learn about people, every person we meet is a new story, a new relationship and a new opportunity to grow myself. I think that is my main interest of learning a new language.