Culture shock
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Sep 18, 2026
Kaka LeeGUEST
Let me pick mine.
Kaka LeeGUEST
The biggest culture shock you've experienced in your workplace.
Kaka LeeGUEST
Actually, I don't have many culture shocks.
Kaka LeeGUEST
I'm so much.
Kaka LeeGUEST
I'm so used to it, so I don't remember any culture shock.
Kaka LeeGUEST
But to follow up on what you have said, actually that was your question.
Kaka LeeGUEST
So what I got to know here in Kenya, Wajaluo na Waluia, They all have the same culture.
John J. CollinsGUEST
And I think it's a reaction like that.
John J. CollinsGUEST
It's culture shock.
John J. CollinsGUEST
And then the reaction to that is, get us up to heaven out of here.
John J. CollinsGUEST
So Daniel ascends on the clouds to heaven.
MumzibahHOST
All right.
MumzibahHOST
OK, so culture shock.
MumzibahHOST
What's one cultural difference that could genuinely make you say, wait, you people actually do this?
Pesa ShayoGUEST
Hmm.
April JacksonHOST
You're feeling guided, which I imagine is a good position to be in, right? Regardless of whether they want to criticize, believe it or whatever, you felt guided.
April JacksonHOST
Yes.
April JacksonHOST
What are the culture shocks that we are experiencing when we just arrived? Because there's I don't care where anyone moves to and how much research, how much guidance, you know, we can ask all the questions, but sometimes or if not all the time, it's only until you really feet on the ground.
April JacksonHOST
Do you experience certain things? And I'm just wondering, I've been here before, but I can't visualize what that would be
MarissaGUEST
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MarinaHOST
I was a kid.
MarinaHOST
Tell me about, if you can remember, I know it's been a while, but that first culture shock that made you realize that Americans operate completely differently.
MarinaHOST
So
Roya FoxGUEST
actually dating back to before I moved to Nantes, when I had this girl who was my exchange student come live with me, the first thing that I noticed that we did so differently that I had really taken for granted is how we eat meals.
Roya FoxGUEST
Typically, it's more of a sweet breakfast again.
Roya FoxGUEST
And so the fact that I would have eggs in the morning was just like horrifying to her.
Roya FoxGUEST
And I was like, how are there so many rules around what you eat and when and why am I accidentally breaking all of them? And that was, I think, one of the first the first of many, many, many culture shocks that I experienced between France and the U.S.
MarinaHOST
That is so funny.
JD DicksonGUEST
It was...
JD DicksonGUEST
It's culture shock.
JD DicksonGUEST
There was no one there from Trinidad, right? The food was foreign to me.
JD DicksonGUEST
The language was foreign.
Samir MokashiGUEST
That whole concept of what a neighborhood is was so foreign to me.
Samir MokashiGUEST
And when I visualized that in UC, so that was a culture shock.
Samir MokashiGUEST
The second culture shock was language.
Samir MokashiGUEST
I spoke English very well.
Samir MokashiGUEST
So everybody assumed I understood the cultural language as well.
KamzoHOST
It's just not.
SolomonGUEST
But I got, I got a very big culture shock as well because when I came here, I always sort of assumed that, bear in mind, I've not, I've n- I've never been really good at sports.
KamzoHOST
Mm.
SolomonGUEST
But in Nigeria, I could kind of hold my own in a sense.
SolomonGUEST
"Abi agba, wo ni lo fi a wo."
KamzoHOST
[laughs]
SolomonGUEST
But, like, I had a very big culture shock here, and one of the times it got so bad to a point where I had to face my bully.
KamzoHOST
Mm.
JoelHOST
I want to talk a little bit about kind of the cultural differences and what it's like to land in a country like that.
JoelHOST
So I have a few questions for you about just kind of culture shock when moving abroad from America.
JoelHOST
We'll get to that right after this.
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Quick one before you jump back in.
JoelHOST
to live somewhere else as well.
JoelHOST
And just, I don't know, I feel like there's that low-grade hum sometime of anxiety that you feel living in America for certain things.
JoelHOST
There's certain broad access to opportunity that we have in the United States that a lot of the rest of the world, a lot of other parts of the world don't feel like they have the ability to start a business the way we do here in the I guess I'm curious to dive into cultural differences a little bit more and what kind of prep work needs to be done in advance for someone who's moving to another country, whether it's Georgia or Spain, to think through that culture shock that they're going to feel when they leave the United States.
JoelHOST
And maybe some of it's good.
MarinaHOST
And so...
MarinaHOST
When I deal, when I go to Eastern Europe these days, I do get that reverse culture shock.
MarinaHOST
And I feel like I am in between both worlds.
MarinaHOST
Because on the one hand, I do have a very strong reaction to fake niceness, niceties.
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David MatsumotoGUEST
And that's what I learned.
David MatsumotoGUEST
And so when I went, I remember going back to Japan first time in the 70s and I go back all the time now.
David MatsumotoGUEST
I'm always in culture shock.
David MatsumotoGUEST
I don't know if it's reverse culture shock, but it's culture shock because it's so different than what I knew.
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