Tools you can use to become more open minded.
In order to understand another culture you have to understand your own culture.
When moving to a new place or even country you may wanna learn something about the place your moving to. This you can do in many ways, I like to search up the place on google and youtube. Get some facts, compare those facts to your experience and expectations and see some random images of places and people. Blogs are also a good way to get an impression of a place.
Cultural Shock:
All people who live in a place for a longer period of time will adapt to the culture in that place. When we travel to another place we will have new experiences and meet new cultures in one way or another.
I think this can create some problems sooner or later, because we will think there is something wrong with ourselves or the new culture we meet.
This happens because there are many factors that come into play to make us feel different and strange in this new environment. For example theres the thing that I think is the hardest, the language barrier. I feel the complications of this in a huge way even though Norwegian is my first language, which is very close to Danish, and I think should'nt be a problem for Danes to understand.
Since the Danes however find it very difficult to understand, I immidiately assume that most Danes are simple, arrogant and intolerant of other cultures. My mind drifts off in anger thinking of how it must be almost impossible assimilating to danish culture if you come from an even further-away culture, and why Denmark face the immigrational problems that they do.
But off course I know this is'nt true and that it's probably no easier if it was the other way around.
Also since I dont feel I'm able to express myself fully and people tend not to talk to me since they dont easily understand what I say, I become quiet and reserved.
This is not something that I would usually do, and it feels very unfair and I become frustrated and prejudice.
