When people move to new countries, they should follow the customs there. |
Since we are living in rapidly globalized world, we can have more chance of staying abroad. The problem is that the more we travel to or live in foreign country, the more conflict will occur because we have a tendency to stick to our country's custom even though we are in another country where its custom is different from our own. However, through my experience in Germany for 4years, it seems to me that following the new countries' customs and laws is more likely beneficial to us once we adjust to them. First of all, adopting their culture and laws as soon as possible would make our life in their more easier and enjoyable. Even though it takes few time to adjust their life dependent on types of people, we soon would feel to be assimilated with native people living in their and want to close with them. Furthermore, the most of the people who have grew up in their would like you because of your effort to adapt new circumstance as a foreigner. For example, when I arrived in Frankfrut in Germany 5years ago, I had hard time getting used to their custom and law. Thus, it was very hard for me to get along with German in there so that I decided to forget the fact that I am Korean and started to talk and hangout with them, trying to accept their culture like them. After that, my life in German turned to be much easier than before, and I could make lots of friends. According to a research conducted by Time magazine in 2006, the most successful immigrants in America is Chinese who are really good at adapting new culture. Second, there must be reasonable and appropriate reason or background why their laws our or culture have been formed and different from our culture and we should follow it. As every country's climate, location and even their skin color are all different each other, the way they have accepted their circumstance also had to be separated. For example, some people can't understand why people living in middle Asia should wear 'Hi-job', but there is story how they developed their unique culture of wearing those eccentric fabric around their face. As temperature in the area was too high to stand for a long time when they are outside, they needed something to cover their body to block hot sunlight from sky. That's why they started to wear their unique cultural clothes that look weird to western people. A research conducted by Korea university in 2007, more than 85% of the culture in the world have progressed on their environment very efficiently. To sum up, following other countries' rule and culture would bring lots of benefits to us in that it make is possible for us to settle in their more easily. Moreover, we should be aware that every culture and law is based on proper evidence why they have to develop their unique life according to surroundings.
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