Immigrants
and foreign students should have to
decide whether to follow new customs or (to) keep
their ones in their new countries. Both ways will offer important but different
experiences for them. In this essay, I am going to compare the advantages
between when you follow new customs and when you keep your own customs in the
new country.
(For above and below, “you” –> “we”)
On the one hand, when you decide to follow the
customs of the new country, the biggest benefit is an
easy adaptation to (the) new environment. You
will be able to quickly fit in (to) the new
surroundings; particularly, it will be getting
much easier to make friends and get along well with the local people. Another
huge benefit is that you will less
suffer (less) from conflicts caused by different
ideas and easily recover from cultural shocks. A final point that comes with
following the new customs is (faster) language acquisition.
If you follow the new customs, it would be much faster to master new languages
and understand of local cultures by
having a conversation with new friends. It will also boost your understanding
of the new social backgrounds and cultures.
On the
other hand, there are also significant benefits to keeping your mother-land's customs (at
home) when living in the new country. One of the most important
advantages is that you can preserve a sense of identity. In addition, you will
not forget your mother language and your original authentic
cultures. Finally, by constantly sharing the same cultural context with family
members, you will be able to continue to keep up a close relationship with your
family, friends, and relatives (back home) as
well.
(Rather than to try to put all the advantages of your opinion
in one paragraph and write a whole separate one the advantages of an
alternative, I recommend that you write two to three paragraphs on the advantages
of your choice only. You could still mention the possible doubts on the same
paragraphs and then develop further by providing rebuttals.)
In conclusion, there are several advantages of both choices. Given all the factors aforementioned, I think that living by following the new customs is a better option than maintaining yours when you live in another country. The benefits of helping a language acquirement, reducing cultural shocks, and making friends far outweigh the advantages of choice when keeping my own custom.