Topic: When people move to another country, some of them decide to follow the custom of the new country. Other prefer to keep their own customs. Which one do you prefer? |
Topic: When people move to another country, some of them decide to follow the custom of the new country. Other prefer to keep their own customs. Which one do you prefer? There are two kind of people reacting diffrently when they go another country. Someone prefer to keep their own custom, another is not. There is an old saying goes, ‘When in Rome, do as Roman do’. This Maxim stress importance of respceting culture of other country when we go abroad. I believe that visiting foreign country is an good oppurtunity to learn about culture of that country and to understanding their customs. So If we go abroad, we should follow the custom of that country. First of all, Currently, we are living in a Globalized world- Flat world. There is no boundry between country to country. So we should establish proper ethics, like cosmopolitanism, to keep pace with globalization. Therefore, it is essential to try understand anther country’s culture. If we don’t attempt to blend this large tide, our country will become isolated in economics, politics, espeacilly culture and so on. Secondly, we can make creating new culture through learning another country’s culture. For instance, ancient Bejantin empire mixed two culture ‘Greek and Orient culture’ and created new culture called ‘Hellanism’. Now, Hellanism is very famous for its originality and aesthetic sense. It is good example how important what is respectful another country’s culture. So we need to learn the manner of Bejantin empire. Finally, it is possible that conflicting with forieners because of cultural misunderstanding when we prefer to keep our own customs. There is an good example about this. In Korea, making ‘O’ using both thumb and the index finger means ‘it’s okay’ or ‘pretty good’. But In latin America, it means insulting other person. If we don’t try to receive and admit another country’s custom, unintended exclusive emotion between Korea and foriegers may be occurred. I think it is very tragic. So as to prevent visitor who go abord from conflicting foreiners, we have a open mind forward another country. |